Philip Barden
Partner, Devonshires

Stuart Blackie
Property Team Leader, Zurich Municipal

Stuart is a Chartered Surveyor and also holds a degree in Fire Safety Engineering, and manages a team of Property Risk Engineers responsible for assessing property related risks, including assessment of Modern Methods of Construction proposals. He has wide ranging experience in the built environment, having both a regulatory, and property management background, prior to joining Zurich in 2005.

A strong personal interest in Modern Methods of Construction, together with a professional focus on emerging risks and trends, allow Stuart to both provide and gather insight in this important and very relevant subject.

Richard Crowe
Partner, Crowe UK

Richard joined Crowe UK in May 2017 from Deloitte LLP, where he is the partner leading the Risk and Assurance practice covering all aspects of internal audit, risk management, counter fraud, technology, data analytics and data protection.

His clients have included some of the UK’s largest Not for Profit and government organisations with assurance activity covering elements of charities, higher education, housing, financial services, private equity owned businesses, commercial, international operations and regulators. This has included designing, reviewing and developing risk management frameworks, developing risk appetite approaches and facilitating principal risk analysis.

Richard Evans
Head of Audit and Risk, Crowe UK

Diana Frangou
Partner, RSM

Diana Frangou is a Restructuring Advisory Partner and licensed insolvency practitioner at RSM in the Midlands. Her broad restructuring experience includes financial restructuring, crisis stabilisation, cashflow reviews and working capital management for corporates and non for profit organisations, including more recently those in the social housing sector.

Maria Hallows
Head of Social Housing, Beever and Struthers

Matt Humphrey
Partner, RSM

Matt leads the firm’s Insight4GRC service group for RSM UK. He has over 25 years of risk advisory and consulting experience. He started his career in 1987 with Grant Thornton, worked with the Audit Commission, as well as being a Head of Internal Audit within the public sector before joining RSM in 2004. In 2002 Matt architected and mobilised the then largest local government Internal Audit Consortium. This was held up by the then ODPM strategic partnering taskforce as a prime example of good practice in alternative service delivery.

Sam McGrady
Director, DTP

Sam has more than 28 years’ experience in the social housing sector. Prior to joining management consultancy DTP, where her role combines client consultancy support with business development, partnerships and communications, she was HouseMark’s Deputy Chief Executive for nine years. At DTP, Sam specialises in strategy and governance, regulatory compliance and VFM, mergers and due diligence, and has helped more than 40 organisations prepare for regulatory In-Depth Assessment. Sam previously held a variety of senior level interim management roles, turning around failing housing organisations, and before that worked for a range of social housing landlords in housing management.

Fiona McGregor
Executive Director of Regulation, Regulator of Social Housing

Anna McOwen
Director of Finance, WM Housing

Bruce Moore
Chief Executive, Housing & Care 21

Mital Patel
Managing Director, MI Risk

Gordon Perry
Board Member, Trafford Housing Trust and Broadacres Housing Association

Elizabeth Richards
Head of Corporate Governance, ICAEW

John Sandford
Board Member, Johnnie Johnson

Sarah Smith
Chief Financial Officer, Optivo

Lee Sugden
Chief Executive, Salix Homes

Gail Teasdale
Chief Executive, Broadacres Housing Association

Keith Ward
Partner, Head of Social Impact Advisory, RSM