Our leadership team
Strategic Leadership Team
Louise Swain - Group Chief Executive
Louise has been the Chief Executive and Board member of Alliance Homes, since 2016. She's worked in social housing at a senior level for over 20 years. She has extensive experience of delivering new homes and delivering a range of housing and support services as well as contributing to strategic partnerships to improve local neighbourhoods. She has been the Chair of the Bristol Housing Partnership and is currently the Chair of Homes for the South West, a group of chief executives from the largest housing associations in the South West, who are working together to identify and tackle the barriers to new housing across the region. She's passionate about social justice and delivering services and homes that customers rate as great places to live.
Iain Lock - Chief Operating Officer
Iain brings has extensive experience in property development and regeneration within the social housing sector. Iain's portfolio includes the work of the Development, Assets and Sustainability and Housing and Community services. Iain is also responsible for Alliance Homes' compliance with the social housing consumer standards.
Prior to his role as Chief Operating Officer, he was Alliance's Director of Investment. He’s also worked for Homes England, Bromford and Forward Swindon.
Iain is a Non-Executive Director and Chair for the Gloucester City Homes Commercial and Development Committee.
Philippa Armstrong-Owen - Director of Business Services
Pip's work covers a range areas including Board and organisational governance, risk management, internal audit, data protection, facilities, insurance, legal and scrutiny of landlord and employer health and safety compliance.
Pip combines her experience of working in the housing sector with a focus on embedding governance, corporate compliance and risk within the business.
She also brings experience from the private sector where, as a qualified company secretary, she worked for both FTSE top 50 and AIM listed companies.
Pip is the Group's Company Secretary and Health and Safety Lead.
Address: 40 Martingale Way, Portishead, BS20 7AW
Email address: philippa.armstrong-owen@alliancehomes.org.uk
Telephone: 01275 398096
Helen Grantham – Director of People and Communications
Helen has over 20 years’ experience working across a variety of human resources disciplines and has held previous senior roles specifically focused on recruitment, talent management and organisational design. Much of Helen's experience has been gained within private sector organisations however she has also spent time working within the public sector.
As Director of People and Communications, Helen's role spans all aspects of human resources, communications, and the employee experience as well as investing in our people through learning and development opportunities as well as building culture.
Matt Bingham - Director of Digital & Change
Matt joined Alliance Homes in September 2021 as Director of Digital & Change.
He has 25 years’ experience working within technology, transformation and projects across a number of different sectors – commercial, MoD and social housing supply chain.
As Director of Digital & Change, Matt is delivering our digital roadmap that will benefit our customers.
Operational Leadership Team
Alastair Sneddon - Head of Data & Business Insights
Cath Pullin - Head of Housing and Community Servicing
Christopher Pullin - Head of Treasury & Financial Planning
Matthew Sands - Head of Assets and Sustainability
Michelle Durkin - Head of ICT & Business Change
Nick James - Procurement Manager
Robert Staplin - Head of Management Reporting and Analysis
Robert Thorne - Head of Financial Reporting
Sarah McQuatt - Head of Development
Sheba Franklin - Head of People