Marie Chadwick
Policy Leader, National Housing Federation

Marie leads the National Housing Federation’s policy work on supply – from the Affordable Homes Programme right through to Voluntary Right to Buy and everything in between. Marie’s background is in policy and public affairs, both in the housing and charity sectors.

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.

Ed Barron
Senior Manager, Credit Risk, The West Brom

Trina Chakravarti
Project Director, Building Better

Ben Denton
Managing Director, L&G Affordable Homes

Josie Dent
Managing Economist, CEBR

Josie is a Managing Economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), where she’s worked for over four years and produces headline generating macroeconomic research. She’s particularly interested in the UK and regional economies, and frequently contributes to Cebr’s members’ service The Prospects Service, producing forecasts and commenting on key economic developments. She is regularly featured in the national and foreign press.

Marcus Dixon
Director of UK Residential Research, JLL

Marcus Dixon is a Director in the JLL UK Residential Research team which offers tailored consultancy services to investors, developers, housebuilders, registered providers and public sector bodies. Marcus has spent the last 19 years working in Residential Research. Prior to joining JLL Marcus was Head of Research at London data company LonRes, focused on analysis and commentary on the London housing market.

Miranda Foster
Senior Manager Affordable Housing Products, Homes England

Mark Gardner
Group Chief Executive, Ocean Group

Meg Green
Social Media Manager, Coppafeel

Helen Horne
Managing Director, Oxford City Council

Helen has worked in many sectors, including retail, education, offices and healthcare, but has a passion for housing. Helen started her career as a Quantity Surveyor and over the last twenty years her professional career has been predominantly been that of Employer’s Agent. Working as a Consultant has allowed Helen to deliver schemes under various structures, operating models, and financial profiles, of both private sector businesses, charitable organizations, registered providers and local authorities. Prior to joining Oxford City Housing Limited Housing Limited as Managing Director, in August 2021, Helen was the Head of Development and lead officer in the delivery of homes for Stoke-on-Trent’s wholly owned housing company Fortior Homes. Helen led on the completion and occupation of Clayworks a 151 units PRS apartment block which formed the anchor to the Smithfield cultural quarter redevelopment. During her time at Stoke-on-Trent, Helen focused the Business Plan of Fortior Homes into a more commercial direction and worked with Partner Developers on bespoke structures to deliver multi tenure homes on brownfield sites. Helen has managed and delivered under HIF and was instrumental in the successful Levelling Up bid for 2 major regeneration schemes with strong residential anchors and a further 3 heritage sites with housing at their core. Oxford City Housing Limited is predominantly delivering affordable homes and with Helen’s belief that good quality design in housing providing the foundation of sustainable communities, improved education, health and economic growth to the local area she is taking Oxford City Housing Limited into the next phase of delivery and operation.

Kate Ives
Geographer, town planner, housing practitioner and social impact investor, Countryside

Countryside, one of the UK’s leading mixed-tenure developers specialising in place making and regeneration, has appointed Kate Ives as Strategic Growth Director to support the delivery of the company’s growth plans in London and the south of England.

With almost 20 years’ experience spanning all aspects of regeneration scheme delivery in London and the south of England, Kate will continue to build on Countryside’s solid track record as a housing partner of choice in London and, supporting the government’s levelling up agenda, commuter town centres.

Kate’s considerable experience engaging local communities and contributors to understand the social, economic and environmental impact of estate regeneration and town centre schemes will be key to the successful delivery of Countryside’s growth plans. Her experience and ability in delivering successful regeneration through effective partnerships is second to none, having worked on some of the largest and most complex regeneration projects in London.

In addition to supporting Countryside’s growth plans, Kate will also be utilising her experience to ensure the delivery of the company’s recently announced 2030 Carbon Zero commitments.

Most recently, Kate was the Strategic Growth Director for Wates, responsible for growing the company’s investments in new developments across London and the south east and prior to this she held the role of Development Director and Board Member of First Base. Kate is also a Non-Executive Director for an affordable housing provider, Barking and Dagenham Homes Limited.

Catherine Jarrett
Director, Sales and Marketing, Bromford Housing Association

As Director of Sales and Marketing, Catherine is responsible for overseeing all the sales and marketing activity for new and existing homes sales at Bromford. Catherine is particularly involved with ensuring that we help as many customers as possible to realise their homeownership dreams. Whilst at Bromford She has been responsible for leading the Sales and Marketing transformation goal of delivering a new portal for Bromford properties and to be shortly followed by a new CRM system.

Catherine has brought over 25 years of experience to her role, including experience working for Barratt Homes, St Modwen Homes, and other large developers as well as in financial services. As a result of this background, her approach is very commercial, and customer-focused.

Rizwan Khan
Head of Investment and Partnerships, Sage Housing

Leon Livermore
Chief Executive, New Homes Quality Board

Toby Lloyd
Independent housing policy consultant, former No 10 special adviser, Chair No Place Left Behind Commission, Create Streets Foundation

Toby Lloyd has worked in housing policy across the public, private and voluntary sectors for over ten years. He joined Shelter as Head of Policy in 2011, leads on all aspects of housing supply, and led Shelter’s proposal for new garden city that was the runner-up for the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014. Previously he led Navigant Consulting’s policy and strategy division, where he advised local and national government and the private sector on housing, planning and regeneration. He has been a senior policy manager for the Greater London Authority, a project manager for the London Rebuilding Society, and taught financial history at the LSE. He is also part of the Hackney Cohousing Project that is seeking to build an innovative community-led, mixed tenure housing development.

Mark Mayler
Group Finance Director, Selwood Housing

Mark is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant and Corporate Treasurer with over 25 years of commercial finance and corporate funding experience with FTSE 100, 250 and PE backed companies such as BT, RAC and Lloyds Bank. He has recently become Group Finance Director at Selwood Housing, leading the procurement, risk, finance and analytics teams. He has a particular passion for digital finance transformation and the use of analytics to improve business performance. He believes that the future of any organisation is based on continual nurturing of talent and encouraging personal development and growth across the team.

Kelly McCabe
Managing Director, The Mortgage People

Jess Mullins
Head of Member Relations, National Housing Federation

Jess is the Head of Member Relations for London at the National Housing Federation. Prior to this Jess worked in public affairs and Parliament.

Hannah Noble
Director Residential - Greater London Development, JLL

James O’Reilly
Head of Corporate Accounts, Leeds Building Society

Francesca Purbrick
Director of Homeownership, L&Q

Francesca is responsible for all Homeownership functions, sitting within L&Q’s Development and Sales Team.

Francesca is a professional property enthusiast, with over 19 years industry experience, starting her career with L&Q at just 17 years of age. Francesca now leads, manages and develops L&Q’s Homeownership Team. Actively looking at innovative ways of working in order to maximise income generation, make best use of L&Q’s existing assets and increasing customer satisfaction. Francesca's team are responsible for generating one of L&Q’s main sources of additional income.

Kush Rawal
Director of Residential Development, Metropolitan Thames Valley

Kush is a development professional with over 16 years of experience, having held numerous roles within Housing Associations and working on programmes delivering both private and intermediate housing products. His market and product knowledge extends across London, the South East and Midlands. Kush is the Director of Residential Investment at Metropolitan Thames Valley, one of the country’s largest Housing Associations where he is responsible for an annual sales programme of over 1000 homes as well delivering a comprehensive post sales customer experience. Kush is also responsible for SO Partnerships business which provides housing providers and local authorities with development and sales support. Kush is also a Development committee member for Raven Housing which develops affordable housing across Surrey.

Catherine Ryder
Director of Policy and Research, National Housing Federation

Catherine currently leads the Federation’s work on the Social Housing Green Paper. Catherine has also worked as Advisor to the Chief Executive at the Federation and recently spent some time working on economic development and housing at Coast to Capital – a Local Enterprise Partnership in Surrey and Sussex. Before joining the Federation Catherine worked at the Audit Commission as a Strategy Manager, leading the development of assessment frameworks for local government.

Jo Short
Deputy Managing Director, Full Comms

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.

Linda Storey
Partner and Head of Social Housing, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

As head of the housing group at Penningtons Manches Cooper, Linda leads a team of 70+ housing lawyers and specialists. In her leadership role, she enjoys mentoring and encouraging others to develop their careers in the housing sector.

Linda finds it immensely rewarding to work alongside her clients to deliver innovative and proactive home ownership delivery and is proud to be an account manager for numerous housing providers including local authorities, smaller housing associations and the largest members of the G15 group.

Having worked in the sector for over 20 years, Linda is pleased to be recognised as a leading individual by legal directories, Chambers UK and The Legal 500 and recommended as a ‘Best Lawyer in the UK for Social Housing’ by Best Lawyers.

Hannah Watkins
Assistant Development Director, Aster Group

Derek Whitmarsh
National Housing Development Manager, Lloyds Banking Group

Derek has been with Lloyds Banking group for over 25 years, with most of his career working within Intermediary Mortgages. His current role sees Derek manage the retail relationship with UK largest Housebuilders, a role he has held for 9 years.

Derek has a wealth of housing & mortgage experience that sees him regularly interact with trade bodies and government. He currently sits on UK Finance Wales committee.

Derek joined LBG after finishing his Law Degree, and when not working is equally busy at home with his wife & 3 young children.

Nick Whitten
Head of UK Living Research, JLL

Nick manages the day to day operations of the JLL Residential and Living Research team which covers the residential, student accommodation and later living sectors in the UK.

The team provides UK market briefing papers and thought leadership that supports the wider private sale residential, affordable housing, build-to-rent, student accommodation and later living advisory and agency businesses at JLL. Nick’s team engages directly with Government to provide policy advice and with JLL’s clients to provide transactional support and strategic consultancy advice.

Nick’s experience spans advisory for both public and private sector clients on residential development and investment opportunities. He acts as a JLL spokesperson for a wide range of housing market-related issues and is regularly cited in national and international media. He is also a regular speaker at property industry conferences.

Nick is also chair of the JLL EMEA Research Technology Hub which is exploring how technology is changing real estate.

Nick spent 13 years working as a journalist, seven of which were in the property industry. He joined JLL in 2014 from property journal Estates Gazette where he developed a well-known industry profile as News Editor. Prior to that he was Business Editor at Construction News.