Choice Leslie Morrell House choice-housing.org 37 - 41 May Street Belfast BT1 4DN T: 0300 111 2211 choice-housing.org Leadership Group April 2019 Together we enrich lives 2 3 Leadership Group | 2019 Leadership Group | 2019 Hazel Bell Group Chair Vice Chair of Choice Services Board Oaklee Housing Board Member GROUP BOARD Hazel Bell is a graduate in Town and Country Planning from Newcastle University, a retired member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and also MEMBERS holds a post-graduate diploma in Marketing from Ulster University. Her professional working experience includes three housing associations (Latharna (later Larne and District), Belfast Community and Botanic; Student Accommodation Services at Ulster University; community development, urban regeneration and neighbourhood renewal with Greater Shankill Partnership in Belfast; and Town Development Management with Larne and Mid and East Together Antrim Borough Councils. we enrich As a resident of Larne, Hazel is also currently involved with a number of local lives organisations including: • Board Member of Ledcom – a one stop shop for economic development and enterprise which provides a wide range of services including managed workspace, business incubation/innovation support, business skills training, business and economic development consultancy, community economic development, information and advice, and social enterprise development. • Chair of Access Employment Ltd (AEL) - a not for profit social enterprise which provides training, employment and work experience for people with learning difficulties or mental health issues. NI Social Enterprise of the Year 2018. • Vice President of Larne Ladies Hockey Club. choice-housing.org choice-housing.org 4 5 Leadership Group | 2019 Leadership Group | 2019 Ciaran McAreavey Group Vice Chair Jennifer Donald Group Board Member Chair of Development & Growth Committee / Maple and May Board Finance Committee Member Oaklee Housing Board Member Ciaran McAreavey is currently Managing Director Ireland for Close Brothers Jennie Donald is currently Head of Strategic Partnerships with Cardiff Commercial Finance, a division of Close Brothers Group Plc. which is a University. In previous positions Jennie was Deputy Chief Executive of provider of finance to SMEs in NI and ROI. Having qualified as a Chartered Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Association (2013-2017) and Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand specialising in the area of Corporate previously Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Chartered Institute of Finance, he then moved into the banking sector and has held a number of Housing (2010-2013). senior leadership roles in the banking and financial services sector based in the UK and Ireland. Ciaran has a degree in Law and Accounting and a Jennie was Chair of the Interim Regulatory Committee in the Republic of postgraduate Diploma in Accounting from QUB, is a Fellow of the Institute of Ireland, appointed by the Minister of State for Housing and Planning to Chartered Accountants in Ireland and a member of the Institute of Bankers. chair an independent Committee tasked with developing and implementing regulation of the housing association sector (over 500 organisations) and He was co-opted as a Non Executive Board Director onto the Choice Group Advised on and co-produced legislation with the Department of Housing, Board in April 2016 and also Chair’s the Development & Growth Committee. Planning and Local Government to establish a statutory regulator. Previous external appointments include, Board Member and Chair of Business Development Committee of Groundwork NI and a Board Member, Company Secretary and Chair of Housing and Property Services Committee of Helm Housing up to 2013. John Cullen Group Board Member Jennie has significant experience in cultivating strategic and senior stakeholder relationships to deliver successful outcomes. With strong influencing and negotiating skills, she has developed a broad network of Oaklee Housing Board Member relationships with diverse individuals, teams and organisations in Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. John Cullen had a lengthy career in the Dept of Environment and Local Government - the Irish Government department with responsibility for Housing. He held senior positions in Planning, Finance, International Environment Policy, and Local Government. He left the Department in 2002 to join the Institute of Public Administration as its Director General. The Institute is Ireland’s premier supplier of training, education, research and publications for the Irish public service. It also provides services overseas. John completed his contract with the Institute in 2009. John has served on many boards during his career, including the board of the company which re-developed the Temple Bar area of Dublin. He joined the board of Oaklee Housing Trust in 2009, serving as Vice Chair and currently Chair. He has been a Board Member of Choice since 2010. John holds an Honours Commerce degree from University College, Dublin. choice-housing.org choice-housing.org 6 7 Leadership Group | 2019 Leadership Group | 2019 Mary Donnelly Helen Harrison Group Board Member Group Board Member Vice Chair of Audit & Risk Committee Development & Growth Committee / Maple and May Board Member Mary Donnelly is currently the HR Director Workforce Planning at Bank of Helen Harrison is Director of JUNO Planning & Environmental Ltd. With over Ireland. In 1994, Mary was recognised as Personnel Manager of the Year. 20 years in the industry, Helen was previously all-Ireland Director of Planning Mary has over 30 years experience in HR and previous positions include; at BDP, Head of Planning at Ferguson McIlveen (now Aecom) and spent 4 Senior HR Programme and Operations Manager for Ulster Bank, HR Director years as a Senior Planner in local planning authorities in England. for O2, Head of Leadership Development for BT and Vice President Human Resources for Bombardier Aerospace Shorts. Helen is currently a Board Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, an Executive Committee Member (former Chair) of the Royal Town Planning Previous external appointments include Board Member for NI Cancer Fund Institute (RTPI) and is highly respected in the planning industry acting as for Children, NI Labour Relations Agency and Civil Service Commissioner. RTPI Professional Accreditation Advisor to Queen’s University Planning School and External Examiner to Ulster University Planning School. Mary has successfully obtained an MBA in Business Administration from Roffey Park Management College in Sussex. Joe Higgins Catriona Gibson Group Board Member Group Board Member Chair of Audit & Risk Committee Vice Chair of Tenant & Client Services Committee Vice Chair of Finance Committee Joe Higgins spent over 25 years in accountancy and financial services. Catriona Gibson is Managing Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC, Dublin in 1990 before practice for leading law firm Arthur Cox in Northern Ireland. She specialises moving to Bank of Ireland, Belfast. After a short spell as Finance Director in Litigation and deals with all aspects of contracts, construction and of an IT company, he established a Belfast office for part of Bank of planning dispute resolution. Scotland in 1996. The first woman to be appointed Managing Partner of a leading law firm in In late 2008, after numerous roles within the Group, he was appointed Northern Ireland, Catriona is unparalleled within professional services locally CEO of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) (“BoSI”) which was by then part of for the strength of her capabilities and the international locus that she has Lloyds Banking Group (“LBG”). As CEO, he instigated the merger of BoSI brought right to the heart of Northern Ireland’s professional with Bank of Scotland, and then established Certus to take on the 850 service community. staff and manage the run-off of the €33bn BoSI loan book for LBG. Since this work completed in 2016, he has taken on a number of non-executive A passionate advocate for good governance and leadership, Catriona positions with Charitable organisations whilst also investing in a number serves on the Institute of Directors’ Northern Ireland Committee. of IT start-ups. Joe is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, a Certified Bank Director and holds a BA Mod in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin. choice-housing.org choice-housing.org 8 9 Leadership Group | 2019 Leadership Group | 2019 Janet Hunter Andrew Logan Group Board Member Group Board Member Tenant & Client Services Committee Member Audit & Risk Committee Member Janet Hunter is the Director of Housing Rights, the leading specialist provider of Andrew Logan graduated from QUB with a degree in Electrical and independent housing advice, advocacy and representation services in NI. Electronic Engineering. Over the past 30 years he has held a wide variety of managerial and directorial roles working across a range of sectors as She is involved in various government advisory groups in relation to housing both Managing Director and IT Director and for employers such as Short and homelessness issues in NI. These have included a Ministerial Housing Brothers, Digital Equipment Company, Deloitte, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Repossession Taskforce which investigated the impact of arrears, repossession and the Henderson Group. He is currently the CEO of Kelsius, the and negative equity in NI. She is currently a member of the “Rethinking social world-leading