We ensure that we have a diverse range of representation throughout our leadership structure. This extends beyond our Group Board to the boards of:
- Clarion Housing Association
- Clarion Futures, our charitable foundation
- Latimer, our development arm.
The Regulator of Social Housing rates Clarion Housing Group's governance as G1. This is the highest possible rating, reflecting the quality of our leadership.
David Orr CBE, Chair of the Clarion Housing Association Board1/Of13
Clarion Housing Association Board members
Andrew, a former partner at legal firm Winckworth Sherwood, has more than 25 years’ experience in advising on major housing projects, with particular expertise in regeneration, in mergers and in establishing new organisations. He was lead partner for Notting Hill Genesis on the Aylesbury Estate and Grahame Park regeneration projects, together involving more than 4,000 new homes, and has acted on numerous joint ventures between national house-builders and registered providers.
Andrew is a school governor at Twickenham Preparatory School.
With over 35 years of experience in the housing sector, David has served as Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, Newlon Homes, and the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations. He has also been President of Housing Europe and Associate Director for Homes at the Centre for Ageing Better.
David currently chairs the Canal and River Trust, ReSI Housing, and ReSI Homes, and holds board positions with Clanmil Housing Group and the National Communities Resource Centre.
Daoud has worked in social housing in London since 2008. Before this he worked in conveyancing in the north of the country.
Daoud is now a Neighbourhood Manager on the Grenfell site.
Gloria has a wealth of cross-sector managerial experience including Managing Director of a marketing company, restaurateur and Mailing Manager with Reader’s Digest. Gloria was a member of the Circle Housing Roddons Board prior to the merger and is currently a member of the National Property Improvement Group.
Gloria is currently Chair of the Manea Education Foundation Trust and enjoys her involvement with the village community and its many committees, including the numerous issues and challenges Fenland is currently experiencing.
Menha has extensive experience in the fields of compliance, risk, and process management. His work spans a range of industries, from financial services and technology to critical national infrastructure.
Menha is a member of AIRMI Membership Committee. He is also an active member of the community for Noel Park and Omnibus Housing. He participates in a variety of initiatives to better the local community.
Michelle is responsible for delivering a consistently good quality, comprehensive service for all Clarion customers and ensuring that customers remain at the heart of our business, improving the customer experience and representing the voice of our customers. She is also Executive lead for Clarion Futures, Clarion’s charitable foundation.
Michelle has more than 30 years’ experience in the housing sector. Formerly Clarion’s Chief Operating Officer and Group Director for Commercial Services, her previous roles include Executive Director and Director-level roles at Affinity Sutton and Ridgehill Housing Association. She has also held senior roles at William Sutton Housing Association, and was the Chief Executive of Aashyana, an Asian-led housing association in the South West.
Preetha is a chartered accountant with a wealth of experience working in finance leadership roles in consumer facing organisations including Tesco, John Lewis, WH Smith, Heathrow and Selfridges She also has a background in professional services having for EY, PwC and Accenture.
Preetha is currently the Chief Finance Officer at the Post Office.
Paul has held executive level roles in affordable housing development, regeneration, asset management and business development for more than 30 years. He has experience as CEO and managing director in both the private and affordable housing sectors.
Paul is currently the CEO of Funding Affordable Homes and is a voluntary, co-opted, non-executive director of Leathermarket Community Benefit Society.
Richard is a Resident Board Member and has been a Clarion resident in Newton Le Willows, Merseyside for 14 years. He has a wealth of experience of working within the public and housing sectors, including roles covering finance, estate and property management and home ownership.
Richard also chairs Clarion’s Customer Committee and sits as a trustee on Clarion Futures.
Rachel is a regulatory and policy expert. She brings particular expertise in utility regulation and public service delivery. Rachel was formerly Chief Executive of Ofwat and held board-level positions at Ofgem. Her earlier career included work in international development and energy policy consultancy.
Rachel is currently Director of Regulation and Economics at Octopus Energy.
Sasha has held a number of key roles in government departments, including No. 10, the Department for Education and the Cabinet Office.
As a Director of the Social Mobility Commission, she has overseen a suite of influential studies that filled evidence gaps on social mobility and raised the profile of the social mobility agenda in the media and amongst parliamentarians.
Sharon has 20 years of board level experience. During her career, processes developed by Sharon have been recognised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as best practice, and she was listed globally in the Top 50 Women in Accounting 2020 and 2021 for global influence in the profession.
Sharon is currently a Global Council Member and member of the Remuneration Committee at ACCA.
Clarion Futures board members
John has over 30 years’ experience of managing and leading finance and risk teams at a senior level in highly regulated industries, initially in the utilities sector and most recently in social housing. Recently retired he is a trustee and member of the Finance Committee at Herts Young Homeless and recently stepped down from the Board of Groundwork East where he was a trustee and member of the Finance and Audit Committee.
John is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Karima is a corporate lawyer. She has 20 years’ experience of advising on:
- corporate and finance transactions
- mergers & acquisitions
- joint ventures
- structuring, funding and delivery of real estate investment and development projects.
Having trained and practiced at international law firm Hogan Lovells, in 2011 Karima moved in-house to Grosvenor Group where she latterly held the position of Group General Counsel.
Karima currently holds Non-Executive positions on:
- Property & Development Committee of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
- University of Cambridge’s Property Board
- University Board of Bournemouth University.
Karima is also an accredited mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.
Lord Barwell chairs the Clarion Futures Board, overseeing the Group’s charitable foundation. His political career has included roles as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May and Minister for Housing. He served as the Member of Parliament for Croydon Central from 2010 to 2017, having previously been a local councillor for 12 years.
Outside of Clarion, he advises a range of organisations including Arcadis, Avonhurst, Barratt Developments PLC, Community Fibre, DLA Piper, and PwC.
Lynsey is the Managing Director of Communities that Work, the national body in England that links housing, employment and government.
Before this, Lynsey was an adviser on employment, skills and apprenticeships at the National Housing Federation, drawing on her experience in the London FE sector and via KPMG's World Class Skills programme.
Before housing, employment and skills in the UK, Lynsey worked on health, education and skills programmes for VSO in China, Ethiopia and London.
Niomi currently works for Bromley Children’s Project as a Family Support and Parent Practitioner, but started her career at the Clarion Customer Contact Centre, where she worked for 5 years. In 2014, Niomi became a Clarion Futures National Ambassador, developing a play position statement and working on the development of the Hometruths digital platform. Niomi also supported her mum to manage Geoffery’s Hall in Bromley, a Clarion community centre.
Niomi has recently been involved in the Clarion/Royal Commonwealth Society Youth Exchange programme, travelling to Malta with peers from the UK. As part of this programme, she also developed a project on Biodiversity, looking at the effect of plastics in the ocean.
Richard is a Resident Board Member and has been a Clarion resident in Newton Le Willows, Merseyside for 14 years. He has a wealth of experience of working within the public and housing sectors, including roles covering finance, estate and property management and home ownership.
Richard also chairs Clarion’s Customer Committee and sits as a trustee on Clarion Futures.
Latimer board members
Chris worked for two of the nation’s largest housebuilders (Lagan Homes UK Ltd and Bowbridge Homes Ltd) for 24 years, prior to setting up his own residential development consultancy company Ashby House, in 2016.
In addition to his role as a Non-Executive Director of Latimer Developments and a member of Clarion Housing Group’s Investment Committee, Chris is also a Non-Executive Director of two regional housebuilding companies in the south midlands area.
Through his consultancy business, Chris works for a variety of landowners, developers, housing associations and local authorities providing project management, commercial, operational process, and viability advice on a wide range of development projects. Chris is currently instructed on several urban extensions for both landowners and local planning authority clients utilising his commercial, planning, and operational delivery experience of major residential led development projects to ensure these projects are robustly planned and are deliverable.
Clare was appointed as our Group Chief Executive in 2018. A chartered accountant, with almost 30 years’ experience in the housing sector, Clare joined the Housing Corporation in 1992 as a financial regulator and over the next 18 years progressed to become its Director of Regulation.
She then became an Executive Director at the Tenant Services Authority, with responsibility for housing association regulation. In 2010 Clare joined Affinity Sutton as Group Director of Governance and Compliance. She took up the same role at Clarion in 2016, before taking on her current role two years later.
Karima is a corporate lawyer. She has 20 years’ experience of advising on:
- corporate and finance transactions
- mergers & acquisitions
- joint ventures
- structuring, funding and delivery of real estate investment and development projects.
Having trained and practiced at international law firm Hogan Lovells, in 2011 Karima moved in-house to Grosvenor Group where she latterly held the position of Group General Counsel.
Karima currently holds Non-Executive positions on:
- Property & Development Committee of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
- University of Cambridge’s Property Board
- University Board of Bournemouth University.
Karima is also an accredited mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.
Mark is a chartered accountant and his previous roles include:
- Chief Financial Officer, Sovereign Housing Association
- Director of Finance & Infrastructure, Staffordshire University
- Finance Director, Birmingham International Airport
Richard leads our development arm, Latimer Homes, and is in charge of Clarion Housing Group’s sustainability strategy.
He joined Clarion in February 2019 from Lendlease where he was Head of Residential, delivering over 1,000 new homes each year. Richard also played a key role in the delivery of the London 2012 Athletes’ Village while at Lendlease. He has more than 25 years of experience in the property sector, including roles at companies such as Mace and Taylor Wimpey.
Rob leads the Property Directorate and has responsibility for repairs, maintenance, property services, investment and long term asset strategy for our 125,000 homes. He led the creation of Clarion’s 2050 Asset Strategy which involves a major programme of investment to sustainably upgrade its properties, based on a set of housing targets it has developed. Rob also has responsibility for Grange (our property management subsidiary), our commercial & investment properties and House Exchange.
Rob is a qualified accountant, with a career that has included senior finance roles in major commercial organisations such as the Domino’s Pizza Group and Network Rail Property.
David chairs Latimer Developments, Clarion's development arm. He brings decades of experience in housing, regeneration and urban development with senior roles across national, regional and local government, including as Executive Director for Housing and Land at the Greater London Authority.
David currently serves as Chief Executive of the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation while also being Vice Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.