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Tony
Edney (Consultant)
Tony is a qualified CiPFA accountant with 20 years experience in a range of
senior finance posts within local government. His local government career
involved working on major projects, liaison with Central Government and
treasury management before moving into management consultancy in
1994. Since then Tony has worked
with Binder Hamlyn, Andersen, Deloitte and Acclaim.
Tony has been
instrumental in supporting the development and roll-out of a number of
successful cost, resource and performance management benchmarking
products for the housing sector.
These include benchmarking for housing management, homelessness
and housing options/advice, and allocations and choice-based lettings.
Eric
Sharpe (Consultant)
Eric
is an expert in social housing with particular skills in housing
management, repairs, empty property management and IT acquired over 30
years. He has worked at a Director level in local authority housing
(responsible for the management of a stock of 15,000+ properties in the
North East of England with several ‘difficult to let’ estates) and as a
private sector consultant with customers ranging from large unitary
authorities to small community based housing associations. Eric also has
significant experience of change management, policy and procedure
development, and IT specification and implementation.
Eric has recently completed two
major projects at CityWest Homes in Westminster
on behalf of Acclaim: developing a business case for the rollout of
Document Image Processing (DiP); reviewing all
of the ALMO’s key management processes linked to the procurement of a new
integrated housing management system.
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Jem
Fouweather (Consultant)
Jem is a highly
skilled and experienced social housing practitioner who has worked in a
wide variety of settings over the last 30 years. This has included working as a directly
employed senior manager, an affiliate Housing Inspector for the Audit
Commission and in a consultancy capacity, particularly in the provision
of inspection and performance management support for a range of local
authorities (including ALMOs) and housing associations. He has also worked as an ‘embedded
resource’ to deliver services on a longer-term basis as an interim
manager.
David Mullany (Consultant)
David is a management
consultant with 30 years experience of working in the social housing sector
across a wide range of different types and sizes of local authorities and
housing associations. He worked for several years at a senior director
level, and has worked as a consultant for the past six years.
David is an effective
strategic thinker, with a demonstrable track record in developing
strategic documents, change management, customer engagement, performance
management and systems analysis.
Jonathan
Card (Consultant)
Jonathan has a
background in the Housing Association sector, with over 25 years working
experience. A Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Housing, he has worked at all levels for a range
of different housing associations. Previous jobs have included Operations
Director for a medium sized national housing association and heading up
the housing management service for a housing provider in central London -
the latter including a period as interim Chief Executive.
Zaidee O’Dell (Consultant)
Zaidee
has extensive housing experience within the housing association, local
authority and ALMO sectors both as a manager and consultant. Prior to becoming a consultant she
worked as Head of Housing and as Policy & Research Manager for a
large London housing association.
As part of this, Zaidee implemented the
restructuring of the housing department (covering of 60 staff).
Jane Bailey (Consultant)
Following a successful
career in local government and the Housing Corporation, Jane joined PWC
as a management consultant where she spent 7 years assisting both central
and local government in the UK and aboard.
Delivery highlights
include the development of an IT implementation strategy for the Hong
Kong Housing Authority, setting up a Shared Service Centre for the BBC
and supporting the ERCF funded transfer of Housing Stock for the London
Borough of Hackney.
Robert Brewer
(Consultant)
Robert is a housing
manager by profession and specialises in helping housing organisations to
improve their services. He spent
18 years in operational management, and a further 10 years in policy, commissioning
and service development, before becoming a consultant in 2001. As a consultant, he has worked with
over 80 housing organisations, including 40+ housing associations of all sizes, 15 retained stock
councils and 17 ALMOs, as well as other housing-related agencies and
companies.
Robert became an
Affiliate Housing Inspector for the Audit Commission in 2003 and has
since been involved in fifteen inspections (including five as the
principal inspector). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Housing and holds CIPFA’s advanced diploma in business and financial
management.
Jon Slade
(Consultant)
Jon makes change happen and has done so in a wide variety of ways
and settings across the social housing sector. He has a strong track record in planning
change initiatives and building project teams as well as the strategic
(and operational) relationships to underpin this.
Jon played an integral role in the first housing refurbishment PFI,
enabling the project to move from near termination to the successful
award of a second PFI contract.
More recently Jon developed a £5.5m change programme for CityWest Homes, including implementing CRM and
workflow software; restructuring the service from 14 offices to 4
offices; transitioning from generic working to specialised teams;
reviewing all key business processes and moving head office. Jon took the programme from inception
to full budget approval.
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