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Jonathan Adlington LLB
Chair of Ocean Housing Group Limited (OHGL).
Retired Senior Partner of Trowers & Hamlins and past member of the Regulator for Social Housing’s (RSH) Regulation Committee. Jonathan has a wealth of knowledge in commercial property and housing. Acknowledged as being a legal expert and leader in the field of Social Housing.
Myfanwy Barrett
Chair of NRC & Board Member
Recently retired from the position of Managing Director of Corporate Services at the House of Commons. CIPFA qualified finance professional with extensive senior management experience in the public sector.
Mike Crabb BSc (Hons)
Chair of GARAC, Board member of OHGL and member of NRC
Retired CEO within the banking industry, and a non-executive director at the Charity Bank.
Andrea Smith B.Sc (Hons), Dip.Arch, RIBA
Chair of the Ocean Housing Limited (OHL) Board, Board member of OHGL and member of GARAC
Recently retired from a senior executive role as Director of Development and New Business. Has led large development programmes including joint ventures and now runs her own consultancy business specialising in interim management.
Bernard Rooney
Chair of Gilbert & Goode (G&G).
Bernard worked for Barratt Developments for 41 years, joining in 1981. He held a number of positions in Manchester and Newcastle prior to assuming the role of Regional Managing Director Central Region in 2010. A board member of BDW Trading Ltd the principle operating company of the Barratt Group Bernard was responsible for the operations in North West, West Midlands and Wales delivering circa 3200 homes.
In April 2021 Bernard took the role of Regional Managing Director of Barratt’s West Region. He was responsible for the operations in the South West, this role was in effect always temporary as one of his objectives was to develop a successor ahead of his retirement in June 2022.
During his Regional Managing Director roles Bernard also headed up Barratt Partnerships arm and line managed the Groups Land Director.
Prior to Barratt Bernard worked for the TI Group who at the time were an international engineering organisation .
Kevin Pearce
Deputy Group Chief Executive
Mark Gardner MA, FCIH
Group Chief Executive
Mark began his housing career in 1983 as a Trainee Housing Manager in local local government.
In 1993 he was appointed the Chartered Institute of Housing’s Director in Wales and the South West of England.
He was appointed Chief Executive of Eastern Valley Housing Association in 1995 and led a merger to create Melin Homes, becoming its first Chief Executive in 2007.
Mark joined Ocean Housing as its Group Chief Executive on 1 November 2016.
“Ocean exists for a social purpose to provide homes for people that need them…”
