Accent Capital PLC
12 February 2025
Accent Group
Limited[1]
New Board and Committee Member
Appointments and Retirement
Accent is delighted to announce the
appointment of two new Board members to the Boards of Accent Group
Limited and Accent Housing Limited, following a competitive
recruitment process.
Michelle Gregg and Simon Brooksbank
have been appointed as Non-Executive Board members from 1 March
2025.
Michelle brings extensive experience as a
senior leader/ executive in social housing and is a member of the
Chartered Institute of Housing. She has held a variety of board
positions, recently as a Board Vice Chair and the Chair of Customer
Experience Committee with a social housing provider. Her sector
experience includes working in service delivery and
transformational roles at a senior and executive level.
Simon is an experienced non-executive director,
who has held and currently holds board positions in the social
housing sector, including a Senior Independent Director and
Vice-Chair position. He is also a member of the Northern Housing
Consortium's Commercial Advisory Group. From a professional
commercial background, Simon has held executive roles with a focus
on customer understanding and engagement, market insight and
commercial strategy, and he has been involved in merger and
acquisitions activity in the private sector. He currently sits on a
social housing Customer Experience Committee and Asset and
Development Committee, and is a board champion for Brand,
Engagement and Communication.
One further Independent Committee Member
appointment has also been made.
Serena Heathcote will join Accent's Audit and
Risk Committee as an Independent Committee member, from 1 March
2025. Serena brings senior leadership experience in both the public
and private sectors, most recently as a director of customer
experience for a social housing provider. Serena's leadership
experience extends to financial services and energy sectors, in
large regulated, corporate environments. Serena's key skills
include customer experience, contact centre strategy and business
transformation, and she will bring a valuable perspective to the
work of the Committee.
One Non-Executive Board member will retire on 1
April 2025.
Steve Pearson will retire from the Accent
Boards after six and a half years of service. Steve's unique range
of skills and experience, customer focus and partnership approach,
built over 30 years of working in senior and executive roles in
social housing and regeneration, have made him an excellent Chair
of Accent's Capital Investment Committee and we wish him well for
the future. Steve's successor to the role of Capital Investment
Committee Chair is Ade Adebayo, who joined the Accent Board on 1
October 2024.
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Issued by Accent Housing, Bradford, West
Yorkshire. For more information, contact Stacey Healey, Head of
Communications and Public Affairs by emailing
press.office@accentgroup.org
