BCHA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Vice Chair
- Board Member of TPAS
Aasia is an experienced housing professional with over 25 years' experience in the housing sector and has a proven track record of developing strategic approaches, processes and managing teams within housing, resident involvement, community engagement, regeneration and access and customer care. She is committed to ensuring residents voices are heard, making a real difference as to how services are delivered.
Aasia has also worked on several European Social Funded projects, as well as writing major funding applications for the National Lottery, Lloyds Bank Foundation and UK Community Foundation. She has a PhD in Sociology and Social policy, with her thesis focusing on ‘green' housing developments and their contribution to community cohesiveness.
Aasia is also a Board member of TPAS - a national tenant engagement organisation as well as on the Board of Directors and a Trustee for a multi academy trust in Hampshire.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit, Risk & Treasury Committee
Ann has worked at Director / Head of Service level in the spheres of finance, corporate resources, estates and business support. Although this has principally been within a range of NHS organisations, including commissioner bodies and providers of community and mental health services, her present role is working as an advisor on strategic development and project management within a local University. A focus of this work to date has been supporting the delivery of a major new construction project.
Ann enjoys using her experience of working as an executive with Boards, along with a relevant and wide-ranging skillset, to support the objectives and work of BCHA.
Ann is also a member of the Audit, Risk & Treasury Committee and has volunteered as the Board's Customer Complaints Champion.
Asa has been working in the Financial Services industry for over 20 years covering many roles including operations and (anti) financial crime leadership, risk management and currently transformation & operational excellence.
Having been a user of BCHA services at the turn of the millennium, Asa is keen to offer insight and guidance to BCHA using the skills gained since.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Building
Asif has worked in the Social Housing sector for 25 years across both local authorities and housing associations. His current post is Head of Asset Management at Notting Hill Genesis, where he also previously held the role of Head of Compliance.
Asif is a member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOD) and Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and has degrees in both Law and Surveying as well as a Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practices which was achieved with Distinction.
Along with his Property Services expertise, Asif is a regular mentor and brings with him strong social and people values and is heavily involved in his local community. A qualified football coach, he has been forefront in establishing his village's first ever ladies football team.
Job Titles:
- Organisational Development ( OD ) Specialist
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust As the Director of Organisational Development and Inclusion
Ceri is an Organisational Development (OD) specialist and has worked across the whole spectrum of HR, OD, education, learning, leadership development, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion over the last 25 years. For the majority of this time, Ceri has worked in the NHS within Community and Mental Health services, but also in Further and Adult Education teaching across programmes in Health and Social Care. Ceri has also been involved with Armed Forces veterans support and was the Programme Director for Workforce in Hampshire and IOW for the Covid-19 mass vaccination programme.
A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Ceri works at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust as the Director of Organisational Development and Inclusion. Ceri is the BCHA Board's safeguarding champion.
Chris spent most of his executive career as a partner at KPMG, where he specialised in infrastructure finance and regulation advisory work. He spent several periods in leadership roles including as Head of Central Government Services and Head of Public Sector for the firm. He has also run a public policy think tank, been interim financial and commercial director of a government owned company and spent three years as policy special adviser to a Cabinet Minister.
Chris is currently Chair of the Board of a large government agency employing over 3000 staff, spent 6 years as a Board member of a housing association and ten years as a trustee of a drug and alcohol abuse charity. He also served as a Councillor, Leader of the Council and Chair of the Policy and Resources Committee of a London Borough.
With 20+ years' experience in Social Housing, Chris has worked in both customer-facing and corporate teams.
Over the last 10 years Chris has focused on Implementing Microsoft Dynamics and other Microsoft products at different housing organisations as well as delivering strategies that support getting customers online and providing channel choice.
Graham has over 30 years' experience as a Chartered Accountant, latterly helping Housing Associations to connect finance function more closely with operations, from planning through processing to reporting and monitoring. He has achieved this through interim and contract assignments, non-executive positions and through consultancy work, working with associations of all sizes from less than 1,000 properties to G15 London associations.
He has a keen interest in developing people to meet their full potential, and in making finance more understandable for non-financial people, recognising that most decisions in organisations have a financial impact.
Ian started his career at Royal Mail, covering various roles over a 16-year period before joining the Finance team at Twynham Housing Association, then moving to Synergy Housing Group. In Ian's next role at Spectrum, he managed the integration to a single housing management system for all income transactions, restructured the teams to a single site and was responsible for delivering the regulatory rent structure regime.
Ian's next post was as RP Financial Reporting Manager for Spectrum's 5 RP subsidiaries, before he took on responsibility for financial reporting for the whole Group.
Ian briefly changed sectors in 2017, becoming Financial Controller at EIMS Global, a sales and marketing company with 6 subsidiaries and over £20M consolidated revenue, before moving to his current post at Magna where he leads the finance function.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Julie is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has a degree in Land Management. She has worked within housing development in a variety of roles for over 30 years; she started her career with a private housebuilder before going on to work for a number of regional and national housing associations.
Julie has led a wide range of teams including new business; asset management; planned maintenance; leasehold; sales; marketing; as well as development delivery. Julie is currently Executive Director of Development at Fairhive Homes in Buckinghamshire.
Peter is an experienced Construction professional (working in the UK and Overseas); he is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.
Peter's role provides senior management leadership in Development, Risk Management, Procurement and Contract Management, Change Management and Strategy.