Jimmy Acton
Operations Director, Property Booking

Jimmy’s background in digital, prop-tech and the internet of things (IoT) is what makes his fresh approach to business exciting. Shortening and streamlining process for the housing sector is where he operates best and his ultimate goal to get more people into the right property first time. This helps the seller save time and money but more importantly the buyer. Buyers believe in areas the market is inaccessible and unaffordable; Jimmy wants to change this perception and focus on getting more first time buyers on the ladder!

Philip Barnes
Group Land and Planning Director, Barratt Developments

Philip's role for Barratt is focused on land acquisition activity and helping to guide our major projects through the planning process. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Philip joined Barratt in July 2013 having previously been a Director at Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners, a leading economics and town planning consultancy.

Lawrence Bowles
Research Analyst, Residential Research, Savills

Lawrence is an associate director in the Savills research team, where he provides market intelligence and strategy advice on the residential sector. He analyses how demographic and economic trends will affect the social and private housing markets, with a particular focus on retirement housing and build to rent. He also contributes to Savills house price and rental value forecasts.

Martin Collett
Chief Executive, English Rural

Martin has over 15 years’ experience in the rural housing sector working initially for the Rural Housing Trust and then English Rural Housing Association, appointed as Chief Executive in 2019. His passion for the countryside comes from a farming heritage, having grown up on a small family farm in rural Northamptonshire. He is a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, graduate of the University of London and Chair of the Rural Housing Alliance. Martin is also a Trustee and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee for the rural community business charity the Plunkett Foundation and an Ambassador for the LGBT youth homelessness charity the Albert Kennedy Trust.

Aeron Corrigan
Client Director, AMI

Minnie Dando
Head of Marketing, Hyde New Homes

Minnie is a multi award-winning professional marketer with over ten years of experience in property marketing and sales, both within the private sales and rental and shared ownership sector. She also brings an in-depth understanding of development and construction to the table.

Minnie leads the Hyde New Homes marketing team, ensuring timely, on-budget delivery of quality marketing, measuring return on investment and delivery of consistent communications to enhance the Hyde New Homes brand and facilitate further growth opportunities for the Hyde Group.

Susan Edwards
Sales and Marketing Manager, Stonewater Homes

Susan is the Sales & Marketing Manager for Stonewater Homes, the specialist home ownership division of Stonewater and leads the Sales & Marketing team responsible for a national new build sales programme including Shared Ownership, Open Market, Rent to Buy and Market Rent. Having worked in the Housing Industry for over 14 years Susan has seen a number of critical changes to the shared ownership product and has driven the digitalisation of the shared ownership process within Stonewater, making it even easier for customers to apply for a Stonewater Home. Susan is extremely proud of her team's success in delivering the 300+ annual sales programme and is looking forward to leading her team towards Stonewater's aspirational sales target of 750 homes per year.

Sarah Finnegan
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Lucy Greenwood
Associate Director, Residential Research and Consultancy, Savills

Lucy joined Savills in 2013 and works in the residential research team specialising in UK-wide development research. She spends much of her time working on bespoke strategic, development and Investment reports for a wide range of clients. She also manages the Savills development land index and co-authors the quarterly development Market in Minutes publication. Her work includes residential development market commentary, market value and absorption rate analysis on development sites and assessments of placemaking potential. Lucy is on the committee of the society of property researchers and can often be found presenting at a variety of seminars and events. Before joining the company she completed a PhD in geology at the Open University after studying natural sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Alex Grieves
Senior Marketing Officer, Aster Group

Alex joined the Aster sales team in 2016 as a Marketing Officer, learning the ropes and gaining lots of experience. As the team developed, so did she, moving up into the Senior Marketing Officer position. When not tweeting or helping to market a home you will love, she enjoys eating, socialising and all things social media!

Paul Hackett
Chief Executive, Optivo

Paul became CEO of Optivo following the merger of AmicusHorizon and Viridian in 2017. Prior to that he spent eight years as CEO and COO of AmicusHorizon. He has worked in the housing association sector since 1989. Before joining AmicusHorizon, he was Executive Director: Development & New Business for Moat and a Director at L&Q. Paul is Chair of g15, representing London’s largest developing housing associations and is a member of the Homes for Londoners Board, Chaired by the Mayor of London. Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the RICS Housing Supply Working Group. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building and the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Kate Henderson
Chief Executive, National Housing Federation

Kate Henderson is Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, the voice of housing associations in England. Our members provide 2.7 million homes for nearly six million people and each year they invest in a diverse range of neighbourhood projects that help create strong, vibrant communities.

Prior to joining the Federation in October 2018 Kate was Chief Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA). During her decade at the TCPA Kate raised the Association’s profile through a range of campaigns and policy initiatives, most notably around Garden Cities, local authority innovation, affordable housing, health, poverty and climate change.

Kate has been involved in a number of government panels and independent commissions including the Lyons Housing Review. She is a visiting professor at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London, a Board member of the International Federation of Housing & Planning, and has co-authored various books including ‘The Art of Building a Garden City’ published by RIBA Publishing and winner of the National Urban Design Book Award 2018.

David Jubb
Director, JLL

Matthew Jupp
Principal, Mortgages, UK Finance

Sandy Kelly
Head of Sales, Onward Living

Kat Kitchener
Head of Delivery, Trafford Housing Trust

Jessica Levy
Public Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Ulrike Maccariello
Head of Development, Hastoe Housing Association

Amy Nettleton
Assistant Development Director of Sales and Marketing, Aster Group

Amy's been with Aster as Head of Sales since January 2010. When not pushing for sales completions and immersed in anything property related with her fabulous team she pretends she's an equestrian star with her 16'2 Irish Draught, Prince, attempts to train for events such as the Great North Run, and enjoy as much time in Cornwall as possible.

John Pierce
Campaigns Manager, National Housing Federation

Elise Santangelo
Design Director, DesignStudio

Tim Seward
Director of Sales, Clarion Group

Tim Seward is the Director of Sales & Marketing at Clarion Housing Group, responsible for all private sales, shared ownership sales, staircasing and resales. Tim has worked in the sector for over 25 years in a range of roles from estate agency, government services, the National Housing Federation and as Sales & Marketing Director for Circle Group. Clarion is the UK’s largest Housing Group and Tim heads up one of the largest national sales programmes, as well as actively being involved in various sector forums and initiatives.

Jo Short
Director, Full Comms and Property Booking

After 11 years leading marketing teams for housing associations, Jo's recently 'gone agency side' joining Full Comms and Property Booking heading up their marketing strategy and creative teams. Developing brands, campaigns and strategies for Shared Ownership, private rent and Help to Buy (and its various guises in previous years!) Jo has taken her in-house knowledge to make sure clients understand the 'why?' of their sales and marketing activities to ensure buyers & renters have a fantastic customer experience. Some would call Jo obsessed with her spaniel Jack, becoming somewhat of a 'burger connoisseur' and her's is a glass of bubbly or a beer if you're buying.

Richard Shotton
Author, The Choice Factory

Richard is the author of The Choice Factory, a best-selling book on how to apply findings from behavioural science to advertising. He started his career as a media planner 18 years ago, working on accounts such as Coke, Lexus, and comparethemarket, before specialising in applying behaviouralscience to business problems. He is currently the Head of Behavioural Science at Manning Gottlieb OMD, the most awarded media agency in the history of the IPA Effectiveness awards.

Denise Stewart
Sales and Marketing Director, Legal & General Homes

Denise has over 20 years experience in the property industry including Sales & Marketing Director positions at both A2Dominion and Antler Homes. Denise is a chartered marketer which has proved invaluable in creating a strong synergy between the two aspects of her role. Ensuring marketing is relevant, targeted and delivers a strong return on investment. She has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Greg Warner-Harris
Senior Partner, Domus IMH

Greg is the Senior Partner of Domus IMH and has worked in the low cost home ownership sector since 1997. Greg and his teams have been responsible for bringing around 2,000 New-Build Shared Ownership and other intermediate products to market. Before establishing Domus IMH, Greg was the Sales and Marketing Director for a major developing housing association and its commercial subsidiary which sold homes on the ‘open market’ to generate cross subsidy for the social parent. Greg now adds to the consultants panel at Shelton Development Services providing shared ownership expertise to their clients.

Zac Worthington
Sales Manager, Trafford Housing Trust