Mark Henderson
Chief Executive, Home Group

Mark is Chief Executive of Home Group, with 55,000 homes under management across Scotland and England and one of the largest providers of supported housing, working with 26,000 vulnerable people in nearly 500 services. Home Group is also one of the largest developers of housing in the UK and will build over 10,000 new homes of all tenures by 2022

Home Group has a turnover of some £350 million per annum and was voted the UK's best Landlord and best Housing Association in 2014 and 2016.

Mark previously ran his own business before joining Home Group, before that had worked with the RDA as Operations Director and a variety of regeneration and economic development jobs across the country in local government, most recently as Chief Executive of one of the largest County Councils in the country. He is a former Chair of Homes for the North.

Mark is a petrol head, he races a Yamaha in classic motorcycle races and is a season ticket holder at Newcastle United.

Debbie Larner
Head of Practice, Charted Institute of Housing

Debbie Larner is Head of Practice at the Chartered Institute of Housing. She is CIH's expert on allocations and lettings and housing management.

Clare Miller
Group Chief Executive, Clarion Housing Group

Clare has been the Group Chief Executive since 2018. She is a chartered accountant with almost 30 years’ experience in the housing sector. Clare joined the Housing Corporation in 1992 as a financial regulator. Over the next 18 years progressed to become its Director of Regulation. She then became an Executive Director at the Tenant Services Authority, with responsibility for housing association regulation. In 2010 Clare joined Affinity Sutton as Group Director of Governance and Compliance. She took up the same role at Clarion in 2016, before taking on her current role two years later.

Catriona Simons
Chief Executive, Guinness Partnership

Catriona Simons is the Chief Executive of The Guinness Partnership Limited and an executive board member. She is also a board member for Guinness Homes Limited; Guinness Housing Association Limited; City Response Limited; Guinness Developments Limited; Guinness Platform Limited; Hallco 1397 Limited; and a member of the Healthy, Safety & Environmental Committee, and the Service and Performance Committee.

Claire Warren
Chief Executive, Pickering and Ferens Homes

Claire is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and with a BA (Hons) degree in Housing Studies and has a social housing career spanning over 30 years. Claire has worked as a Chief Executive for the last 18 years and is currently Chief Executive of PFH (Pickering and Ferens Homes) an almshouse charity with 1400 homes based in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Claire is also a Board Member for North Star Housing.

Ruth Cooke
Chief Executive, GreenSquare Accord

Ruth is passionate about the importance of housing and care and support services, having spent virtually her whole career working in and with housing associations.

A highly experienced chief executive and finance director, Ruth has held Chief Executive positions at Clarion Housing Group and Midland Heart, followed by two years as Group Chief Executive of GreenSquare. She has also held several senior finance positions.

Ruth has spearheaded major programmes to improve the service delivery of housing associations including the development of new corporate strategy, the transformation of financial and operational performance and the redesign and refocus of customer services.

Ruth is dedicated to ensuring that GreenSquareAccord is a brilliant landlord.

Carol Carter
Chief Executive, Origin

Carol Carter joined Origin as Chief Executive in April 2017. She has over 30 years' experience in a wide range of roles and organisations across the housing sector with a track record of success in driving organisational change and delivering high-quality customer services; effective and efficient housing and property management and community investment; ensuring value for money and building strong external partnerships. Prior to joining Origin, Carol was Group Director of Housing for six years at Hyde with responsibility for managing 50,000 homes. Previously she worked for a range of housing associations, inner London and rural local authorities, as well as a three year period in consultancy, including experience at Savills.

Carol holds a degree in Social Science and the Professional Qualification of the Institute of Housing.