Our Board & Legal Stucture

We're governed by our Board of Directors listed below.

• Andrew (Andy) Willis (Chair)

  Andrew, or Andy as he prefers to be known, has nearly twenty years’ experience in non-executive roles for organisations in the housing, health, education and third sectors. A corporate lawyer background, he specialises in corporate governance and leadership development.

  Andy is passionate about housing providers and care services working together for the benefit for the communities. He chairs a community and mental health NHS foundation trust and prior to joining Alliance was Chair of United Communities our partner organisation in our home’s repairs partnership. He joined the Board of Alliance in September 2019.

   

• Louise Swain (Chief Executive)

  Louise has worked within social housing for over 20 years, 12 of these at senior management level and she has extensive experience of contributing to strategic partnerships and of delivering major change and modernisation projects. Louise is also a member of the Alliance Board.

  She is passionate about social justice and delivering services and homes that customers rate as excellent. Prior to joining the Group Louise was Executive Director Customer Services at Curo Group. Louise has also worked as Operations Director at Gloucester Housing Association and in a variety of roles for Somer Community Housing Trust, Guinness Trust and Knightstone Housing. She has also held a number of Non-Executive Director roles.

• Claire Feehily

  Claire joined the Board of the Alliance Homes Group in 2014, with a range of skills and experience in finance, health and social care, education and public sectors.

  Claire is currently the Chair of Healthwatch Gloucestershire; is a Non-Executive Director of Guinness Care and Support (GCS); a director with Southern Health Foundation Trust based in Hampshire; and has a national role as Audit Chair and Board member of The National Archive at Kew. She has also had a series of board leadership roles, including ministerial appointments, in the charity, NHS, and criminal justice sectors.

  Claire works as a Sessional Lecturer at University of Bath, and for the past 14 years she has held a portfolio of contracts including university lecturer, financial and management consultant to the health and social care sectors, non-executive directorships and chair and audit chair positions.

  Claire’s last two executive positions were at Essex County Council and the City of Westminster.

• Richard Gaunt

  Richard joined the Board in 2018 as a Group Board member and a member of the Audit Committee. He took over as chair of the Audit Committee in September 2019.

  He brings a broad range of other skills including significant strength in treasury and property. Prior to his retirement in 2009, Richard was an Audit Partner at KPMG and remains a Fellow of Society of Chartered Accountants England and Wales.

  He comes to Alliance as an experienced Board Member and Audit Committee Chair (most recently with Brunelcare) with other appointments including vice chair at City of Bristol College and Colston Girls School.

• Sarah Frost

  Sarah joined the board in 2018 as a Group Board member and Audit Committee member.

  She brings a great depth of knowledge of Digital / IT transformation and experience built through her 16 years' experience of delivering large scale, customer focused, transformation programmes with RBS.

  Her knowledge of how Digital and IT strategy can deliver improved customer service is a great strength on the Board, alongside her wider skills including risk management, financial policy, business development and governance.

  Her other Board Trustee appointments include Calibre Audio Library and Abbeyfield (Gerrards Cross) Society.

• Maddie McIsaac Dunne

  Maddie has experience living in different social housing properties in various locations, from inner city housing estates to rural homes. As such she is aware of some of the different challenges faced by people living in differing properties and locations so is mindful that these needs are considered when decisions are being made that may affect tenants.

  Maddie will be Chairing the newly formed Customer Insight Committee and will bring her experience of being a tenant along with the business side of AH that she has learnt from the past 7 years of being a Board member.

• Huw James

  Huw joined the board in September 2019 as the local authority representative for North Somerset. Huw James was elected in May 2019 as the North Somerset Councillor for Portishead South and brings his community insight and local expertise to the Board. 

  Huw sees inequality, housing poverty, and the climate crisis as the three main challenges faced in the West of England locality and believes that Housing Associations like Alliance Homes present the best solutions to champion inclusive, sustainable growth in our communities. 

• Irene Watkins (Independent ALC Board member)

  Irene was recruited as an independent member for our Care Board bringing with her a wealth of experience in the care sector, specifically strategy, governance, compliance and risk, change management, customer and service delivery.

  Irene has twenty years of senior management experience in health and social care in both private and voluntary sectors in Australia and UK wide organisations. Previously managing director of Hafod Care Association in South Wales.

• Sameer Rahman

  Sameer joined as a group board member in 2020. As an expert in data and customer insight he will help to support our service transformation and customer digitalisation programme.

  His brings a wealth of expertise in personalisation, customer segmentation, profiling and use of segments to drive business and marketing strategies.

  He has over seven years of non-executive and independent director experience and is a serving independent director at the Millennium Stadium Plc and the Glamorgan Cricket Club

  With interests in augmented analytics and machine learning, Sameer is a published international author and speaker on customer segmentation and predictive modelling.

• Carol Rosati OBE

  Carol joined the board in 2020 to support organisational development and our design and transformation agenda. She is also Chair of the Remuneration Committee.

  She is an experienced non-executive director and chair and sits on the board of Southern Housing and is the senior independent director and chair of Spruce Homes. She is also vice chair and chair of the nominations committee for UN Women UK and chair of One Loud Voice for Women.

  Carol has over 25 years of talent management and workforce development experience with broad commercial and financial acumen. She has strong cross sector knowledge, including food manufacturing, FMCG, financial services and technology.

  Carol was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2015 Birthday Honours List for services to Women in Business.

• Paul Foster

  Paul joined the Board in 2020 as a group board member and as chair of the investment committee.

  He has over 35 years’ experience in engineering, construction and built assets, he has 10 years’ experience as a non-executive director within the built environment including two non-executive chair roles.

  Paul has held roles including chief executive officer and chief operating officer and has previously led multi-disciplinary teams across EMEA to deliver large and complex built asset programmes.

  He has experience in initiating, leading or governing joint ventures and strategic alliances with good understanding of enabling technology and built asset performance issues, such as passive design, fluid dynamics and energy management.

Legal structure

NSAH (Alliance Homes) Limited (Parent Organisation)

Alliance Living Care Ltd - Co. No. 4164129 (Wholly owned trading subsidiary)

Alliance Homes (Ventures) Ltd - Co. No. 7632446 (Wholly owned trading subsidiary)

Alliance Homes Partnerships Limited - Co. No. 11270306 (Trading as Home Repairs Service)

Dormant companies

Alliance Homes Sales Limited - Co. No. 10366705

Alliance Homes Design & Build - Co. No 10366730