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Imran Mubeen
Director of Treasury, BromfordImran leads the treasury team at Bromford Housing Group. Imran has raised over £1.5bn of new funding with UK and overseas investors, issuing the group’s debut public bond and inaugural US private placement. He has pioneered sustainable finance, delivering the first green and governance linked loans in the social housing sector, and expanding Bromford’s trading update to become the first housing association to set out performance against sustainability golden metrics. Imran published Bromford’s accredited sustainable finance framework, and the group’s sustainability impact report which adopts the SRS and is now delivered annually.
Imran continues to drive Bromford’s sector leading dual credit rating platform with Moody’s (A2) and S&P (A+) and is a key driver of thought leadership in the sector on all matters related to finance, treasury and sustainability.
Annette Spencer
CEO, Association of Corporate TreasurersAnnette Spencer was appointed Chief Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers in September 2023. She previously held senior roles at membership associations The Investment Association and The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and her earlier career was spent in communications, policy and marketing roles in financial and professional services, including at a number of FTSE100 companies.
Arun Poobalasingam
Funding and Marketing Director, The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC)Arun joined THFC in 2021 as Head of Relationship Management and Business Development and is now Funding and Marketing Director. He joined from HSBC where he helped set up and then lead their Social Housing business focussing predominantly on larger housing associations. Having started his career working at Diageo, he moved to Network Rail where starting as a financial modeller he moved on to the Treasury team that raised over £20bn of debt through the Global Capital Markets during his stint. He left to join HSBC in 2007 to join their Real Estate team at an interesting time for the sector and specialised in property for most of his time there.
Caroline Corby
Chair, PeabodyCaroline Corby worked in the City for 13 years, specialising in private equity. During this period she served as a non-executive director on a number of private sector boards across a range of industries. After taking a career break to raise her three daughters, Caroline joined the board of London Probation Trust in 2007 and subsequently became Chair. She has since undertaken a number of board appointments in the public and housing sector.
From 2020 to 2024, Caroline was chair of One Housing Group. One Housing merged with Riverside and Caroline became vice-chair of the merged group. She therefore has extensive experience in social housing, care and support and regulatory standards. Caroline became chair of Peabody in April 2024. Her focus is on scrutinising performance, championing equality, diversity and inclusion and driving continuous improvement as Peabody negotiates the ongoing challenges of the social housing sector.
As well as her role at Peabody, Caroline is Chair of the Parole Board for England and Wales (which determines whether the most serious and complex prisoners can be released back into the community) and the Professional Standards Authority (which oversees the regulation of all health workers in the UK and social workers in England) and she is a non-executive director of the Security Industry Authority.
Catherine Raynsford
Director of Investment and Partnerships, The Hyde GroupAs Director of Investment and Partnerships for the Hyde Group, Catherine is responsible for securing the investment and delivering the new partnership models that enable Hyde to grow its development pipeline. Since joining Hyde in 2020 she has led a team to identify, develop and enhance long-term relationships with a broad range of partners including institutional investors. The strategy aims to delivery meaningful additionality by working with culturally aligned partners and utilising Hyde’s established delivery and operational platforms to provide more high quality, sustainable affordable homes.
Catherine joined Hyde following 9 years at JLL, specialising in public private partnerships and working with public sector landowners to bring forward major development and regeneration projects.
Catherine is a member of the BPF’s Affordable Housing Committee, the IPF Residential Special Interest Group, and was part of the Governance Steering Group that helped establish the Sustainability Reporting Standard.
Chris Jeffs
Director, Fund Management, M&G Real EstateChristopher Yau
Director of Origination and Sustainability, Housing and Head of North West, Lloyds Bank Corporate and Institutional BankingWith over 15 years of corporate banking experience, Chris currently heads up the national origination and sustainability activities across the Housing team at Lloyds Bank, Corporate and Institutional Banking. In his current role, Chris helps to drive continued growth across new and existing clients, as well as supporting their continued transition to a low carbon economy and delivering sustainability and ESG finance. In addition, Chris is the Head of North West for Lloyds Bank's regional Corporate Banking team, which supports clients with turnover in excess of £100m across a range of industry sectors. Chris is committed to helping Lloyds Bank deliver its ambitions of shaping finance as a force for good by creating an inclusive and sustainable future for our communities and businesses.
David Cleary
Managing Director & Head of Housing, Lloyds Banking GroupDavid is a Managing Director with responsibility for Lloyds Banking Group’s relationships with clients in the house building and social housing sectors. Having joined Lloyds Bank in 1989, David undertook numerous roles across Retail and Commercial Banking before joining the Capital Markets division in 2000. David was instrumental in the development of the Bank’s Capital Markets business in both the public and private debt markets in the UK, USA and Europe. In January 2017, David returned to relationship banking to create a new team with responsibility for UK Housing.
David has a passion for sustainability and in 2021 became a Board director of Sustainability for Housing Ltd and joined the Executive Committee of NextGeneration, both of which focus upon developing sustainability reporting standards and frameworks in the rental and new build markets. He also supports Regeneration Brainery which focuses on the putting the ‘S’ in ESG.
Dominic Brindley
Director, NatwestDuncan Jones
EMEA Head of Cash Business, State Street Global AdvisorsEmma Turner
Director of Corporate Finance, Riverside HousingEmma has worked in the sector now for over five years. Prior to that, she spent 15 years working for Big Four accounting firms providing international tax and treasury consulting to a range of businesses in the UK and abroad, from small family owned SME’s through to FTSE 100 groups. Emma is both a chartered accountant and qualified corporate treasurer. Her team at Riverside recently won a prestigious Deal of the Year Award from the Association of Corporate Treasurers for their sector leading SONIA RCF with Lloyds bank back in March 2020. Emma is passionate about both treasury and the values at the core of social housing. She believes strong treasury foundations are key to running successful businesses, whether for profit or not.
Eugenia Korobova
Senior Debt Origination Manager, Pension Insurance Corporation plcEugenia Korobova works at Pension Insurance Corporation plc (PIC) and focusses on sourcing high-quality investments in the social housing sector, where PIC has invested over £2bn. She previously worked as a Credit Analyst at PIC and Rothesay, covering the social housing sector, as well as at S&P Global Ratings covering both investment grade and high-yield corporate issuers. She has a MSc in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics. Eugenia also sits as an Independent Director on the Risk & Audit Committee of Gateway Housing Association.
Grant Vaughan
Partner, NewbridgeGrant is a partner at Newbridge Advisors, specialising in financing and treasury management for social housing providers. Before joining Newbridge, Grant led the social housing DCM team at Lloyds Bank, and prior to that was in DCM at Barclays Capital.
Grant's focus is on generating long-term value propositions for social housing clients through new financing, debt restructuring, loan book optimisation, tailored ESG processes and ongoing investor relations.
Henrietta Podd
Director – Debt Capital Markets, Allia C&CHenrietta has worked for over 35 years in financial markets advising the public, private and not-for-profit sectors on debt with a focus on social and economic infrastructure and its operators.
In 2019, she joined Allia C&C, a specialist debt adviser and fixed income stockbroker majority owned by a charitable company. Its mission includes advising and raising debt for impactful projects and non-profit distributing businesses such as charities, housing associations and building societies.
Henrietta was formerly on the Housing Committee of the CoE Pension Fund, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments.
Isabelle Kirk
Assistant Director of Treasury, StonewaterIsabelle leads the Treasury team at Stonewater – one of the largest social housing providers in the UK, owning and managing around 36,000 homes. She has been part of Finance at Stonewater for eight years, having worked in various reporting and accounting roles before becoming Assistant Director - Treasury in 2021.
Recently she supported the consolidation of Stonewater companies and was involved in enabling 550-home Greenoak Housing Association to become a subsidiary. She also negotiated to extend Stonewater’s revolving credit facilities, and secured funding through the Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme.
James Kelly
SVP Treasury, Risk Management and Insurance, PearsonJames O’Connor
Director of Corporate Finance, Pobl GroupJames is Director of Corporate Finance at Pobl Group, the largest housing association in Wales and an early adopter of the Sustainability Reporting Standard. He is also a board member and committee chair for a number of charities and another housing association.
Before joining Pobl Group, James spent over a decade with PwC, based for several years each in London, New York and Frankfurt, before moving to the not-for-profit sector as Head of Finance at Wales & West Housing. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and was made a Member of the Order of St John for services to charity in January 2022.
James Williams
CEO, Sero HomesJamie Ratcliff
Chief Communities and Sustainability Officer, SNGJamie sits on SNG’s Executive Board with responsibility for establishing a £100m community foundation, communications and political engagement, impact reporting and a new centre of excellence for research & innovation. He worked for predecessor organisation Network Homes, latterly as Executive Director of People, Partnerships, Sustainability & Technology where he oversaw high levels of colleague engagement and customer satisfaction.
He has nearly 20 years’ experience working at a senior level in housing at local, national and regional levels, including commencing the Stirling Prize winning Goldsmith St development and being responsible for housing for the current and previous Mayors of London. He has overseen the completion of affordable homes for over 150,000 people, implemented significant organisational and cultural change, personally negotiated multi-billion-pound affordable housing settlements, coordinated strategy, political and media engagement for the G15 largest London housing associations and successfully launched the UK’s first publicly available database of criminal landlords.
Janani Paramsothy
Head of ESG and Sustainability, Places for PeopleJessica Friend
Director of Corporate Finance, Platform HousingJessica is an investment finance professional with almost 20 years experience in investment banking and finance. Jessica spent 15 years in investment banking arranging bank and capital markets funding for infrastructure businesses, including housing associations. Funding arranged for the social housing sector included revolving credit facilities, private placements, public bond issues, and aggregated funding vehicle issuance. She was then a senior adviser for Ofgem with a focus on regulated energy networks cost of capital and financial resilience. Jessica joined Platform Housing in 2021 as Group Corporate Finance Director and is also a Non-Executive Director at Thrive Homes and Chair of Thrive Places.
Joanna Bouloux
Partner, DevonshiresJoanna advises on corporate matters such as joint ventures, LLP agreements, acquisitions and disposals, private investments, reorganisations and a variety of other company and partnership issues. She also advises on commercial matters including master service agreements and service level agreements in respect of IT/telecommunications, standard and bespoke terms and conditions, privacy policies and confidentiality agreements.
Jonathan Clarke
Director, Affordable Housing, Savills Investment ManagementJonathan has worked in social housing for 16 years including at PwC, then as Corporate Finance Director at Genesis Housing Association after the 2008 financial crisis, and more recently spending eight years as a Managing Director at Centrus. Since 2022 he has been a Director in the Simply Affordable Homes team at Savills Investment Management with a focus particularly on working with housing associations and on the ESG aspects of the fund’s strategy. During his time at Centrus, Jonathan advised a wide range of associations on corporate finance and treasury matters including relating to their long-term strategy and business plan. He led mandates on a number of mergers including the formation of Clarion, Southern Housing and Abri. Jonathan is a former housing association board member and is a board member of a national leisure charity, and member of the SORP working party.
Jonathan Roberts
Group Treasurer, VividJon is a Chartered Accountant and Corporate Treasurer (AMCT). He trained with Grant Thornton and has since worked in housing, in the both the private and HA sectors.
He is Group Treasurer of VIVID, a leading provider of affordable homes in the south of England. VIVID was the fifth largest HA developer of 23/24, building over 1,500 homes. Its large development programme is underpinned by sector-leading margins (>40%). Jon has raised over £1bn for social housing, including the sector’s believed to be first Green Loan with Barclays, which was recently ‘Highly Commended’ at the ACT’s ‘Deals of the Year’.
Karin Erlander
Director International Public Finance Ratings, S&P Global RatingsKarin Erlander is a Director and the Lead Analyst within the International Public Finance team covering the public and not-for-profit sectors, focusing on universities, housing associations and local governments across the UK and the Netherlands.
Based in London, Karin joined S&P in 2007 as an analyst in the Utilities team, covering a portfolio of Nordic, U.K, & Ireland and Netherland-based issuers for six years, followed by three years in Consumer Products & Health Care. Prior to joining S&P, Karin worked at SEB Merchant Banking.
Karin has a BSc in Business Administration majoring in Finance from the University of Stockholm, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Karin is fluent in Swedish and English.
Kate Henderson
@KateNHF
Chief Executive, National Housing FederationKate Henderson is Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation (NHF), the voice of housing associations in England. Kate is passionate about tackling the housing crisis, inequality and climate change. She is a member of several government panels including the Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel and the Social Housing White Paper Expert Challenge Panel. Kate become a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2021. Prior to joining the NHF in 2018, Kate was Chief Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association.
Katie Porter
Head of UK Corporates, Debt Capital Markets, ABN AMRO BankKatie leads the Corporate Debt Capital Markets team at ABN AMRO UK, originating and executing bond transactions across the Real Estate sector and for housing associations. The franchise provides ratings, ESG and capital structure advisory to help issuers identity the most suitable financing options to achieve their strategic goals. A broader team of debt and distribution experts provide access to institutional capital from across the UK, Americas and Continental Europe in both public bond markets and the Private Placement space. Katie joined ABN AMRO in 2020 in New York and has previously held Capital Markets and debt raising roles in the US and UK with Société Générale and Lloyds Banking Group.
Kwok Liu
Deputy Treasurer, Funding & Investment, National GridKwok has over 20 years of experience in Treasury. In his current role, he has group wide responsibility at National Grid for funding, investing, managing financial risk, bank and debt investor relations, as well as partnering the business on financing matters and managing financial risk. Net debt at the company when he first joined was £5.2bn and was predominantly in Sterling. Through a series of corporate transactions and growth, net debt now stands at £43.6bn and from a more diverse range of sources. He also currently serves on the Treasury Committee of Clarion Housing Group.
Louise Leaver
Partner, Bevan BrittanLouise is a banking and finance lawyer specialising in housing finance and the joint head of Bevan Brittan's housing practice. She has been acting for borrowers and lenders for over 20 years, and represents a broad range of clients including corporate borrowers, registered providers, charitable entities, property developers, banks and institutional investors.
Louise advises on all types of loan agreements, security documentation, intercreditor and security trust arrangements, swap transactions and capital market issues. She specialise in supporting and advising clients in the social housing sector to raise funds, whether through short-term revolving credit facilities or longer-term private placements and bond issuance. She also advises on development finance, acquisition finance, off-balance sheet delivery models, joint venture arrangements and restructurings.
Louise is recognised for providing commercial and pragmatic advice to clients and for using her experience acting for borrowers and lenders to evolve and document new funding structures.
Luke Cross
Director, SocialLuke joined Social in 2020 to set up its ESG and impact communications consultancy and London business. Luke and the team work across housing, placemaking and the built environment, along with financial services and the impact investment space. Before joining Social, Luke was editor of Social Housing magazine, the trusted finance and business publication for the affordable housing sector, for seven years. He was also a director at Ocean Media, where he led the launch of a housing business intelligence platform and worked across a portfolio of housing conferences, driving coverage around ESG and purpose-driven investment. Previous to that he spent two years as finance editor at Construction News.
His 15-year career in journalism also spans national and regional media. Social is the communications partner to Sustainability for Housing - which runs the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing. It also works with The Housing Finance Corporation, JLL, Westminster City Council, Sero and many others. The team has supported a number of HAs with their ESG approaches and reporting and investor communications, including Hyde, SNG, Bromford, Abri, Home, Guinness, Notting Hill Genesis, Torus, Origin, Soha, Ocean Housing, CHP and others.
Martin Warhurst
Chief Financial Officer, Habinteg Housing Association & NED, Salix HomesMartin has over 24 years of experience within the social housing sector, with a particular passion for accessible, lifetime homes in inclusive communities. Martin is currently the Chief Finance Officer at Habinteg Housing Association. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Resources at Wakefield District Housing Association, Chief Executive of Martin House Children’s Hospice and prior to that, an Executive Director at Isos Housing Group (now Karbon Homes) where he was Managing Director of Cestria Community Housing Association following several years as Director of Finance and Corporate Services.
He is a Chartered Accountant and has worked within the social housing audit teams at KPMG and RSM Robson Rhodes, who later merged with Grant Thornton. Martin has demonstrated his commitment to the not-for-profit sector by holding several voluntary audit committee, trustee and board positions. Currently, he is Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Salix Homes. In the past, Martin served full terms of office as a Board Member and Chair of the Audit Committee at Leeds Federated Housing Association and Broadacres Housing Association.
Michael Brooks
Director, International Public Finance, FitchRatingsMichael is Fitch Ratings sector expert on UK public related entities and local authorities, covering a significant portfolio of social housing providers. Michael has experience across public finance entities through a career in credit analysis and financial audit over the last decade, assessing risk across multiple sectors and geographies.
Neil Hewitson
Partner & ESG Lead for Public Sector, KPMG LLPNeil leads KPMG sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, governance) practice in Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare (IGH) in the UK. He works with public sector bodies to transform their business and operating models to become sustainable, resilient and responsible and to create value through the transition to a low-carbon, nature-positive economy. Neil is passionate about ensuring that sustainability is at the heart of major public sector transformation programmes. His approach is based on a firm view that it is not possible to design and implement transformation programmes that are fit for the future without having sustainability as the foundation. Neil champions the inclusion of sustainability design principles for change programmes, for example through the inclusion of sustainability impact assessments, biodiversity net gain, circular economy and climate risk considerations at key stages of the design process for future target operating models.
Neil’s experience spans climate change, sustainability and strategic consulting. He has worked with public sector bodies across infrastructure, government and healthcare to support them in designing and implementing sustainable business models and operations. Neil has delivered a broad range of sustainability advisory services to strategically and pragmatically address ESG risks and opportunities in business strategy and operations, governance, reporting and assurance
Nicola Henry
Senior Fund Manager, Canada LifePaul Devoy
CEO, Investors in PeoplePaul is the Chief Executive of Investors in People (IIP). In 2016, Paul led the buyout of IIP from the UK Government and the organisation is now a Community Interest Company. IIP's purpose is to Make Work Better. Investors in People work with a community of organisations, employing over 1 million people providing digital diagnostic tools, advice, support and assessment against their internationally recognised Frameworks. Our network of 150 skilled and experienced Consultants works with organisations across 70 countries, but predominantly in the UK.
Prior to leading Investors in People, Paul was a Director at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, an executive non-departmental body that offers guidance on skills and employment issues in the UK. He led the development and implementation of strategic programmes to create sustainable skills solutions with joint investment from industry and government. He previously worked in the Scottish Prison Service for 4 years leading on change management programmes. He spent his early career working in local DWP offices. Paul studied Human Resource Management, graduating in 1994. He is a Chartered Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.Priya Nair
Chief Executive, The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC)A senior executive with over 25 years’ experience in financial services, infrastructure and housing, Priya is passionate about leveraging sustainable, long-term investment to help deliver positive economic and societal outcomes in the affordable housing sector. Before joining in March 2024, Priya was a Senior Director at abrdn in its infrastructure team. With a focus on infrastructure and housing, Priya was responsible for financing, capital raising and deal strategy across all its flagship infrastructure funds and investments. Prior to that, Priya spent over 13 years at the Royal Bank of Canada in their global private markets team and seven years at Citi.
In addition to leading THFC, Priya acts as a senior advisor to organisations working across government, infrastructure and technology where she provides counsel on corporate finance, governance, risk management and investment strategies. She is a Non-Executive Director and the Chair of the Investment Committee at the Port of London Authority and a Senior Adviser to Good Governance Capital. Priya also supports several non-profit originations and charities with a focus on sport and education. She is currently a Senior Trustee of community sports charity, Sported, the UK’s largest network of community groups supporting half a million young people through the power of sport.
Rachel Hurst
Head of New Funding and Investor Relations, BromfordRachel joined Bromford’s Treasury team in 2023 as Head of New Funding and Investor Relations. Rachel is a qualified Chartered Accountant and previously worked in the International Public Finance team at Fitch Ratings, providing credit ratings for housing associations and government-related entities. Prior to this, Rachel was a financial auditor at the National Audit Office, leading audits of central government departments and Arm's Length Bodies across Health & Local Government.
Rachel Orgill Harris
Partner, DevonshiresRachel is a Partner in the Banking and Debt Capital Markets Team at Devonshires. Rachel advises on all aspects of social housing finance, including public bond issues, private placements, loan facilities, intra-group funding agreements, facility restructurings, group re-financings and interest rate derivatives. Rachel’s primary specialism is advising issuers on multi-million pound public bond issues and bond programmes. Rachel also has significant experience in merger refinancing having acted on some of the biggest mergers in the sector including the Southern Housing and Notting Hill Genesis amalgamations.
Rachel also leads Devonshires’ AML Compliance work advising housing associations on registrations, policies and procedures. The Legal 500 notes that “Rachel delivers superb quality work with responsive turnaround times”.
Rhys Moore
Executive Director of Public Impact, National Housing FederationRhys started with the NHF in October 2018, as Executive Director of Public Impact. Rhys oversees our policy, external affairs and communications work. Previously he was Director of the Living Wage Foundation where he worked with government, business and civil society to build a national movement of responsible employers. Before that, he helped to establish the London Community Foundation, which supports grassroots community groups in the capital. Rhys is a board member of the Carers Trust.
Richard Petty
Head of UK Residential Valuation, JLLRichard Petty is the Head of UK Residential Valuation at JLL, with responsibility for all the residential valuation teams across the country. The Residential Valuation teams cover the full range of residential property and specialist sectors including affordable housing, prime residential, PRS, build-to-rent and strategic advisory work on residential portfolios. The JLL Residential Valuation team is made up of 120 specialist staff, based in nine cities: London, Bristol, Exeter, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh,together giving complete, national coverage.
Richard has over 37 years’ professional experience, with the last 28 years principally focussed on the affordable housing sector. He and the JLL affordable housing team advise on all aspects of the valuation of affordable housing, acting for all the lenders in the sector and for over 300 RPs, large and small, including all members of the G15; as well as leading equity investors, private developers and local authorities.
Sarah Forster
Chief Executive Officer, The Good EconomySarah Forster is CEO and Co-Founder of The Good Economy Partnership (TGE), a social advisory firm specialising in impact measurement and management. She leads TGE’s advisory services and has also led the collaborative project to develop a Sector-Standard Approach to ESG and Impact Reporting for Social and Affordable Housing. Prior to establishing TGE in 2015, Sarah was Deputy CEO of Big Issue Invest, which she helped start-up and develop into one of the UK’s leading social investment intermediaries. From 2004-2007, Sarah worked for the New Economics Foundation focused on community-led development and social investment. Sarah spent the first half of her career working in international development, including ten years at the World Bank. She has lived and worked in Africa, Asia and the Balkans and helped build microfinance institutions and local community investment programmes aimed at tackling poverty.
Shaeen Azam
Director of Finance and IT, Golden Lane HousingShaeen is an experienced finance director with over fourteen years of experience in the housing sector. She has significant knowledge and experience of all aspects of finance including Corporate Finance and Treasury management. She holds two Non Executive Directors positions on Sheffield Childrens Hospital Trust and Connect Housing Board. Shaeen is a Chartered Certified Accountant and a corporate treasurer and holds an MBA from the University of Birmingham.
Simon Century
Managing Director, Legal & GeneralSimon Century joined Legal & General in 2016. As Managing Director – Housing, Simon is responsible for leading direct investments across residential real estate. He has founded multiple businesses whilst at L&G including its affordable housing arm, Legal & General Affordable Homes as well as Legal & General Suburban Build to Rent, the single family rental business. In addition, he is responsible for L&G’s other residential businesses and investments across the senior living, build to rent, for-sale and strategic land sectors.
Simon’s career has spanned residential real estate, corporate finance and corporate strategy. He joined from the affordable housing provider, bpha where he was the Executive Director for Strategy and Corporate finance. Prior to bpha, Simon worked at the advisory and investment firm, TradeRisks (now part of Gresham House), advising clients across the infrastructure and quasi-government sectors.
Simon is a full Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, holds the Certificate in Investment Management from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and psychology degree from the University of Liverpool.
Steven Bolton
Head of Corporate Private Debt, Europe, Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM)Steve is responsible for Corporate Private Credit at LGIM, the UK’s largest asset manager. He leads a team sourcing, structuring and managing both investment grade and sub investment grade private credit across a range of sectors and European geographies. He is responsible for LGIM’s UK and European corporate, social housing and education private credit assets. Steve joined LGIM in 2018 from Barclays, where he spent 10 years across both the Corporate and Investment Bank. Steve has extensive experience across European loan and DCM markets, is a qualified corporate treasurer and holds a BSc in Accounting in Finance from the University of York. He also holds a non-executive co-opted committee role for a local housing association.
Tariq Kazi
Group Treasurer, Peabody TrustWill Perry
Director of Strategy, Regulator of Social HousingWill is Director of Strategy at the Regulator of Social Housing, where he is responsible for developing corporate strategy, business intelligence and regulatory policy. He is also responsible for the Regulator’s relationships with the funding markets and the regulation of for-profit providers. Will is a qualified chartered accountant, was until recently a non-executive board member of The Housing Finance Corporation.
Zoe Jankel
Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Moody’s Investors ServiceZoe is a VP/Senior Analyst in Moody’s Sub-Sovereign Group and holds lead analytical responsibility for ratings on a portfolio of local authorities, housing associations and other government-related issuers in the UK. Prior to joining Moody’s, Zoe worked as an Associate Director at Arup in London, undertaking a range of economic and financial consultancy projects with public and private sector organisations in the UK and internationally. Zoe holds a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Birmingham, an MPA in Public Economics and Policy from the London School of Economics and is an Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Shahi Islam
Director of Affordable Housing, Homes EnglandShahi Islam is Homes England’s Director of Affordable Housing responsible for delivering the Affordable Homes Programme. Shahi has been at Homes England since 2013, serving in various leadership positions to support the management and delivery of a number of capital and revenue programmes. With close to 20 years in the sector, Shahi has extensive experience in housing working in roles covering policy, strategy and programmes. Prior to the Agency he worked at the Greater London Authority working in the housing investments and policy team.
David Fletcher
Head of APAC Cash Sales, State Street Global AdvisorsLuke Newman
Director of Business Development, Institutional Cash Distributors (ICD)Luke Newman re-joined ICD in March 2020 and is responsible for the sales and client relationship management for institution investors across the United Kingdom.
Sophie Knuppel
Treasury Analyst, Orbit GroupChris Ellmore
Director of Corporate Finance, MoatNicholas Keeling
Strategic Director, ArlingcloseEd Lunt
Chief Financial officer, Sanctuary