ReSI Housing Limited

David is an experienced leader in both executive and non-executive roles. He has over 30 years’ experience in Chief Executive roles, most recently at the National Housing Federation. He is Chair of Clarion Housing Association, is a previous President of Housing Europe and previous Chair of Reall, an international development housing charity. He is also chair of The Good Home Inquiry, co-chair of #Housing 2030, a joint project for Housing Europe and UNECE, and a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Housing, Church and Community Commission. David frequently speaks on the challenge of optimistic leadership and the critical importance of governance. He has wide ranging media experience, is a well-regarded commentator and blogger and has extensive expertise navigating the world of politics and government. In June 2018 David was awarded a CBE.

Gillian brings to ReSI Homes over 30 years of housing and housing finance expertise, with a focus on policy development within the framework of regulatory standards.

She served as the Non-Executive Director for The Housing Finance Corporation from 2006 – 2012, where she was heavily involved in business strategy, financial policy and governance. This overlapped with her role as the Head of Private Finance at the former social housing regulator, the Homes & Communities Agency, where for 13 years she was responsible for relationships with lenders, investors, advisers, and credit rating agencies operating in the social housing sector. She has also been an authority on all aspects of social housing finance policy, including advising government departments, focusing on areas of regulatory standards, and being responsible for social housing sector guidance on treasury management.

Sandra has a strong background in social housing with over 30 years experience as a senior leader in the sector, most recently as Chief Executive of Octavia Housing. She has held Executive leadership roles within some of the countries largest housing associations and with local authority arms length management organisations (ALMOs), leading on housing and property management.

Sandra is an experienced non-executive having held roles in housing associations, the private sector and financial services.

She is currently a board member of MHS Homes, the largest independent social landlord in the UK, and is Chair of Heart of Medway Homes, a register subsidiary of MHS Homes. She is a Board member of Earnz PLC, an AIM listed energy services company supporting the journey to net zero and former non executive board associate at Principality Building society.

Mark is the Executive Director of ReSI Housing and ReSI Homes.

He joined Gresham House in March 2020 following the acquisition of TradeRisks. Before joining ReSI Housing, Mark spent 12 years as a Chief Executive of Circle Housing Group, a 65,000-unit housing association, before merging it into the Clarion Group, the largest housing association in the UK. Prior to that, Mark held Chief Executive roles at Anglia Housing Group and Nene Housing Society.

He has 38 years’ social housing experience and has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing since 1986.