Board Members

Chair - Delyth Lloyd-Evans MA, MBA, MCIPD

Member of Governance Committee, Remuneration Committee and Treasury & Financial Operations Committee

Business/executive coach and organisational development specialist.

National Director of Skills for Health. Company Secretary and Director of PD Properties South West Limited. Non-executive Director of North Somerset PCT.

Appointment to the Board: July 2006

  
Vice Chairman - John Portch

Chair of Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee

Retired Group Managing Director of Equipu Plc. Director of St John Ambulance, Avon and formerly, Vice Chairman of Southmead NHS Trust.

Appointment to the Board: November 2004

Christopher Harvey

Chair of Treasury & Financial Operations Committee, Member of Audit Committee

Chartered Accountant, retired plc Finance Director. Director of The Pluss Organisation Ltd and Non-Executive Director of Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust. Governor of Bicton College.

Appointment to the Board: November 2004 

Nick Horne BA(Hons), ACA

Chief Executive

Group Chief Executive of Arcadia Housing and Managing Director of Knightstone Housing Association.

Chartered Accountant. Joined the Group in February 1996 as Group Finance Director and appointed Chief Executive in September 1998. Vice Chairman of the Social Housing Pension Scheme, a Trustee of the St John's Family Resource Unit and a Support Member for Chartered Accountants in Business. Previous private sector careers in property development, house building and construction and in the accounting profession.

Co-opted to the Board: November 2007

Appointment to the Board: April 2009 

Roger Lloyd BA(Hons), MA, MCIM

Member of Audit Commitee and Chair of Governance Committee

Former Director of Corporate Development (Chief Superintendent), Avon & Somerset Constabulary.

Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Appointment to the Board: November 2004

Lou Evans

Chair of Arc Developments South West Limited and Member of the Treasury and Financial Operations Committee

Company Director of a London-based property company, Martin Brooks Associates. Non-Executive Director of NHS Somerset PCT and Chairman of its Audit Committee. Member of the Somerset sub committee for appointment of Members of Justice of the Peace.

Appointment to the Board: September 2006

Stewart Wright BA, FCA

Chair of Knightstone Housing Association Limited and Member of the Governance, Remuneration and Treasury and Financial Operations Committees

Formerly Managing Director of Bristol & West Mortgages. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and had been with the Bank of Ireland/Bristol & West group for 28 years.

Appointment to the Board: September 2005 

Rev Nick Williams MBE, MA, CEng

Member of Audit Committee

Assistant Curate, Pill, Portbury & Easton-in-Gordano. Churches together Researcher. Retired Bath & Wells Diocesan Ecumenical Officer. 

Appointment to the Board: December 2004

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