Our Board

Chris is the Board Chair for Golding Homes. Chris brings over 38 years of residential sector experience, gained both within housing associations and private consultancy. Chris spent 17 years at Moat Housing Group, building a significant intermediate housing business before being appointed as a Group Development Director, a member of the Moat Executive team. Chris joined ikon consultancy where he was an equity partner, specialising in affordable housing consultancy services. Ikon was acquired by Hamptons International, part of the Countrywide Group, in February 2015.

Chris joined affordable housing consultancy Red Loft in October 2019 as a Partner, following 18 months at Clarion.

Ebele is our Board's Deputy Chair and Chair of the Finance & Treasury Committee. She has over 25 years of experience working at Board level, with expertise in treasury, financial investment, risk, and business growth.

Ebele has held a range of Executive, Director and Board level roles including Chief Financial Officer, Financial Strategy and Operations Director, and Finance Director at three G15 Housing Associations.

Hannah Langford is a Commercial Property lawyer and partner at a leading City law firm. Hannah's expertise includes working with registered providers, house builders and local authorities on development, joint ventures and regeneration projects. She was formerly an in-house lawyer at Clarion Housing Group and has experience of working in local authorities where she specialised in property and planning law.

Karin has over 20 years' experience in housing; ranging from academic research into innovation processes, to working for private, public and housing association sector. 

Karin is currently working as Executive Director of Assets and Sustainability at Southern Housing, one of the largest UK housing associations. Karin is responsible for overseeing Southern’s sustainability agenda, the building safety programme and the delivery of all repairs and property services. She is passionate about good quality, sustainable and affordable homes for residents and a true believer in the value of co-creating services with customers, employee engagement and digitalisation. 

Lisa is an experienced senior financial services professional, currently working as MD Business Planning, driving strategic change and transformation within the commercial banking division of Lloyds Banking Group. Lisa’s experience spans leadership roles in strategic business development, performance and customer experience; and client facing roles working with businesses to provide funding and financial solutions. Lisa is the Member Responsible for Complaints (MRC). She provides assurance on the effectiveness of the complaints system.

She’s passionate about delivering excellent customer services and the need to learn from customer feedback to help inform proposals for improvements. 

Owen is a highly experienced Chair and Non-Executive Director of registered housing providers and health authorities. He has worked in housing, health care and mental health services.

As a highly respected interim Chief Executive he has been responsible for leading major change in governance, executive structures and bringing about organisational learning.

Owen is passionate about excellence in customer services, providing safe, quality homes for residents and creating positive working environments for staff. He enjoys working with people who share his values. Owen has been appointed by and worked with all the housing regulators in the UK.

Sandeep Sankoli is a seasoned housing professional with over 15 years of experience in both regional government and private practice. He specialises  in mixed-use development, private rented sector investment, and urban regeneration and is currently Head of London Land and Partnerships at Hill Residential, and a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Sandeep's career began as a Housing Economist at City Hall, where he provided advice to the Mayor of London on housing supply barriers. He also worked at L&Q, advising on their entry into the private rented sector and strategic growth planning. Sandeep is a regular contributor to round table discussions and think tanks on private rented sector and placemaking through the British Property Federation and Future of London.

Simon has over 20 years of experience working at Board level. He’s held a range of Executive, Director and Board level roles including Director of Resources and Finance Director at various housing associations inside and outside London – including a G15 association - as well as charities involved in children’s services and cancer research. He’s been responsible for business planning, risk management and effective treasury management, as well as change management and restructuring in finance, HR and IT. 

Simon’s currently a Director and Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee at a multi-academy trust in Rainham. 

Ashley's an experienced executive leader in customer service, digital transformation and organisational change and development. Her experience spans over 25 years in the customer service arena, working in both the private and public sector operating large, multi-site, multi-channel and multi-brand business process operations. Ashley has a background in local government and the housing sector, having recently worked at L&Q as their Customer Service and Revenue Director.  

Ashley's passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences and is now an independent advisor, consultant and Interim Director supporting clients across a range of sectors to transform their customer experiences.

In his early career, Rajiv contributed to pioneering research on technology's role in democracy and crafted digital standards for English Local Authorities. Rajiv's entrepreneurial spirit led him to the commercial sector, where he spent 15 years nurturing tech start-ups from inception to market success. His diverse experience includes setting up offshore companies, developing technical architectures, and launching innovative software products.

As the Chief Information Officer at Notting Hill Genesis (NHG), Rajiv's orchestrated a remarkable digital transformation. He led the migration of 99% of NHG's systems to a unified cloud platform, streamlining architecture and slashing carbon emissions by 65%. He also implemented AI solutions and IoT integrations, delivering real-time data access that redefined business operations.