Group Chair and Common Board Member
CHAIR - JOHN GARRITY, MA (Hons), DipTP, MCIM, MAPM, MCIH, MRTPI has served on the Board for over 10 years. He is Chair of the Group Remuneration & Nominations Committee and a member of the Customer Services Committee. John is Head of the Central Private Finance Unit at the Department for Communities and Local Government. He has extensive experience across the housing sector including with central and local government, housing associations and the private sector.
Group Deputy Chair and Common Board Member
DEPUTY CHAIR - PETER WILLIAMS, BA, MSc, PhD, FCIH, FRGS has served on the board for 8 years (6 years as Chair). A member of the Group Audit & Risk Committee and the Governance, Remuneration & Nominations Committee. He is Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research, Executive Director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association and Chairman of Acadametrics, a house price consultancy and a Board Member of the National Housing Federation. Extensive experience of home ownership and social housing. A former Board Member of the Housing Corporation and Housing for Wales and Chairman of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit, and previously Deputy Director General of the Council of Mortgage Lenders and Professor of Housing at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Common Board Member
EMMA CARIAGA, BSc (Hons.), DipTp has served on the board for 2 years. She is Chair of the Group Investment Committee and a member of the Governance, Remuneration & Nominations Committee. Emma is Development Director at Land Securities plc and a board member of the Housing Forum, Planning Committee Member of the British Property Federation and a Trustee of STEM4.P>
Common Board Member
BEN DENTON, MRICS, BSC (Hons), Dip BA joined the Board in April 2012. He is a member of the Group Investment Committee. Ben is the Strategic Director for Housing, Regeneration & Property at Westminster City Council. Prior to this he worked for First Base Limited. Ben is a director of two affordable housing providers in central London.
Common Board Member
BRIAN HENDON, FCA has served on the Board for 3 years and is Chairman of the Group Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Governance, Remuneration & Nominations Committee and Group Treasury Committee. Brian is a Non Executive Director of Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and also holds positions as Non Executive Chairman in various private sector companies. Brian is a Chartered Accountant and has worked in the USA and UK in various Finance Director and Managing Director roles.
Common Board Member
STEVE MARSDEN, MA has served on the board for 2 years. He is a member of the Group Audit & Risk Committee and Customer Services Committee. Steve has extensive experience as a global business manager in the commercial sector, having previously worked for the Hay Group for over 20 years. He is a non-executive director of Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and has experience as the Vice Chair of a further education college.
Executive Common Board Member and TVH CEO
CHIEF EXECUTIVE – GEETA NANDA, BSc, PG DIP Housing, CIH joined Thames Valley Housing in 2008. Geeta has worked in the housing sector for over 25 years in housing associations, local government and research. Previously she was Group Director of Operations at Notting Hill Housing Association and has served on the Boards of several housing organisations. Currently she is a Trustee of SCOPE, Chair of the NHF South East Regional Committee and Chair of Academy4housing, a training social enterprise set up by TVHA. Geeta is a Director of the Fizzy Group of Companies.
Common Board Member
FRANK NELSON FCMA joined the board in September 2012. He is Chair of the Group Treasury Committee and a member of the Group Investment Committee. Frank has over 25 year’s experience in the construction, property and energy sectors. Currently Interim CFO of Lamprell plc, until September 2012, Frank was Finance Director of construction and house-building group Galliford Try Plc for 12 years. Prior to this, as Finance Director of Try Group Plc he led the company through its flotation on the London Stock Exchange in 1989, its expansion throughout the 1990s, and Try’s merger with Galliford in 2001. He began his career as a Management Consultant with Coopers & Lybrand where he led major Monopolies and Mergers Commission projects in the energy generation sector and large international contracting assignments.
Common Board Member
MAGGIE RAFALOWICZ, BA has served on the Board for two years and is a member of the Group Investment Committee and Customer Services Committee. Maggie has worked in housing for more than 20 years with senior experience in development, regeneration, strategy and supported housing. She was Assistant Director of Housing & Community Care for the London Borough of Brent and has also worked at senior levels for The Housing Corporation and Solon Co-operative Housing Services. She is currently a Management Consultant working with local authorities and ALMOs, housing associations and developers.
Executive Common Board Member and TVH FD
JACK STEPHEN, MA (Hons), CA joined Thames Valley Housing in 1994 having previously held positions of Finance Director, Financial Controller and Treasurer with banks and other international companies. Jack was previously on the Board of a housing organisation and is currently Chair of the Sector’s SORP Working Party. He is also Chair of Trustees of a Supporting People Charity.
TVCHA Deputy Chair and Common Board Member
DAVID SMITH, BSc, MSc, PhD, FCIH has served on the board for 5 years. David is a member of the Group Audit and Risk Committee and Group Investment Committee. Until 2007 David was Group Chief Executive of First Wessex Housing Group and has served on the Board of several housing organisations. David then undertook a variety of housing related consultancy assignments until his retirement in 2012.