Our board

You can download our board members’ declarations of interest here and skills matrix here.

Ursula has been Chief Executive at Trent & Drove Housing since 2015.

Prior to joining Trent & Drove, Ursula worked at Housing Plus for nine years, leading on development and new business across Staffordshire.

Over a 25 year career in housing, Ursula has worked across the sector in a wide variety of roles ranging from her first job as a trainee housing officer to Director of Business Development and now as Chief Executive.

During this time, she has worked with both traditional housing associations and Large Scale Voluntary Transfer housing organisations, providing her with a wealth of experience in dealing with the challenges and opportunities facing the affordable housing sector. She has a track record of successfully working with key local stakeholders to ensure housing needs are met and projects are delivered.

Maureen is a social housing executive with over 30 years’ experience commissioning and managing homes in housing associations. Her most recent role was as Director of Services and Communities at Soha Housing, where she helped raise standards and transform satisfaction with services for communities. In addition, she has been Trustee and Chair of a Community Development Trust in Oxfordshire.

As Head of Acquisitions & Planning at One Housing, Jeremy is responsible for the new business and acquisition element of the development department for Greater London. The Group currently manages 17,000 homes over 26 London Boroughs and surrounding counties in South East England. The department has a development programme of c. £1.8bn and an annual acquisition target of 900 homes a year.

Tom has worked in the housing, local government and regeneration for over 25 years. He has chaired a housing association board, and had a number of director and senior management positions in councils, ALMOs and housing associations. For the last 6 years he has been a successful independent consultant working specialising in transformation, regeneration and developing new housing products and solutions.

Tom has also been a governor at his local primary school for many years. He is married with 3 children and lives in Forest Hill, south east London.

Dasos is currently the Regional Managing Director for Abri, one of the largest housing associations based in the south of England. Dasos is responsible for Abri’s south east region of 13,500  homes, predominantly based around Windsor and Bracknell in Berkshire, following the successful merger or Abri with Silva homes in 2023.  Prior to the merger, Dasos was the Executive Director for Customer Relations at Silva and has been in housing for over 10 years.

Prior to housing Dasos started his career in retail, working for the John Lewis partnership for over 12 years, in a variety of leadership roles including branch management, Head Office and leading the customer service operation for John Lewis Financial Services.

Dasos is also a non executive director for Midland Heart, and sits on their operations committee and audit and risk committee. Dasos is a chartered member with the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Richard is a chartered accountant and spent most of his career as a partner in a major regional firm of chartered accountants based in London and the Southeast until he left the City in 2012. He has been appointed to multiple non-executive director and committee roles since 2005 in both the commercial and social housing sectors. His experience to date in the housing sector includes development of market sale and affordable homes, care and support, temporary accommodation, eldercare, general needs and wholly-owned council housing subsidiaries.