About us
Board members
Rosebery's Board is made up of ten Board members; seven Independent, three Resident Board members and one Board Co-optee. There is currently one Board vacancy for a Resident Board member (as at April 2012). Resident Board members are nominated by the Opportunity Store.
The Board has overall responsibility for Rosebery’s governance and performance. In its members, the Board has a wide range of skills, competencies, experience and knowledge.
Rosebery’s Board is committed to ensuring the highest standards of governance and has adopted the National Housing Federation’s Codes of ‘Excellence in Governance’ and ‘Excellence in Standards of Conduct’.
Board Meetings take place regularly, usually every six to eight weeks. Committee meetings are also held regularly throughout the year. There are four sub committees to the Board: Audit Committee, Treasury Committee, Development Committee, Remuneration Committee. We also have a Complaints Panel.
The Board regularly holds Board Away Days and we provide inductions as well as on-going training to all our Board Members.
Florence Barras
Florence joined the Board in February 2012. She has over 20 years of successfully developing Public Private Partnerships in Health & Social Care, Education and Regeneration, including Housing, for the benefit of local communities. She is a Partner of Anagennao Developments, a consultancy, and a development and investment company specialised in social infrastructure.
John Weguelin
John joined the Board in June 2011. He is also on the Board of Raglan Housing Association where he Chairs the the Finance and Treasury Committee and sits on the Development Committee. John has over 30 years of banking and financial services experience as well as serving as a Governor of a Secondary School in Tower Hamlets.
Anna Hammond (Chair)
Anna Hammond was co-opted to the Board in April 2010 and was elected Chair in September 2010. Anna runs an HR Consultancy specialising in executive recruitment, coaching and leadership development. She has delivered services to the social housing sector over the last ten years. Anna lives locally in Epsom.
Keri Marshall (Vice Chair)
Keri was elected as a Resident Board Member in September 2004 and became Chair of the Residents' Committee in the same year. She has played a significant role in the operational and strategic direction taken by the organisation in relation to Resident Involvement. Keri is a Community Co-Coordinator and also a Manager for the local CVS. She was elected Vice Chair in October 2007.
Mary Hope
Mary was elected as an independent board member in 2004. Mary has extensive experience in HR across public and private sectors, she worked for many years as an Executive Search consultant and now has a portfolio career; with a number of public appointments and running her own company providing coaching and career management to individuals across the public sector.
Ade Adebayo
Ade was elected as an Independent Board Member in May 2005. He is Executive Head of Construction and Property at the London Borough of Sutton. He is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with 28 years' experience within the private and public sectors. He has worked within housing and has extensive experience of repairs, refurbishment and housing estate regeneration projects.
Jon Milburn
Jon joined the Board in January 2010. He has over twenty years experience in social housing with particular expertise in development and regeneration. He was Group Regeneration Director at social housing providers Horizon Housing Group and was a Director of construction consultants MDA Consulting until 2009.
Honorata Rosser
Honorata is a Rosebery resident and was elected as a Resident Board Member in October 2008. She is the manager of a local library and has been involved with various voluntary groups and organisations over the past 10 years.
Paul Williams
Paul Williams was elected as an independent Board member in 2010. He also Chairs the association's Audit Committee. An accountant by profession, Paul is currently Director of Resources at Broxbourne Housing Association. He has almost 30 years experience of the social housing sector, having held senior roles at the English Churches Housing Group, the Downland Housing Group (now Affinity Sutton) and the Housing Corporation. Paul has also served as a management consultant in PricewaterhouseCooppers' Jamaican offices. Paul brings to Rosebery extensive financial, audit, treasury, investment and governance experience .