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Our Housing Plus Group Finance Limited Board members are listed below – please click on their image to view their profile.
Simon Whitfield
Chair Simon Whitfield
Simon is a highly experienced banker with over 35 years’ experience in the financial services sector. He started his career at NatWest Bank and has worked in retail, commercial and investment banks including Morgan Stanley, BayernLB and The Co-operative Bank.
He has also worked for the UK Treasury and UK Export Finance.
Since 2013, Simon has held various executive positions at banks and alternative lenders and most recently ran the Development Finance team at Castle Trust Bank. Simon has an extensive background financing property, project, acquisition and corporate transactions and has chaired various credit and risk committees.
Alan Hawkesworth
Board Member Alan Hawkesworth
Alan is a qualified accountant and has spent most of his working life in Shropshire and the West Midlands, working for local authorities, building societies and in higher education. He has recently retired from working at Aston University where he specialised in strategic risk management. He has previously been a non-executive director for another large West Midlands based housing association and has considerable experience of governance having chaired various Audit and other board committees within the different areas he has worked. He is also a Non-executive director of Resolve College Ltd, which delivers online training for apprentices to a large number of police, local authorities and social landlords in the area of ways to professionally mange crime and anti-social behaviour.
He has extensive operational and strategic experience in accounting, finance, people, investment, insurance and audit services, and how these apply in a variety of industries and regulated bodies. Alan, due to the extensive nature of his career, has had wide managerial experiences from many varied situations the benefit of which he is able to bring to this position.
Dinesh Murugesh-Warren
Board Member Dinesh Murugesh-Warren
Dinesh is a qualified chartered accountant (ICAEW) with over 10 years of investment appraisal, treasury and structuring experience within Real Estate and Housing space. He currently leads the Corporate Finance function at Legal General Investment Management (LGIM) Real Assets responsible for debt, treasury and strategic corporate investment. LGIM Real Assets is a leading UK investor with exposures across the commercial, operational and residential property sectors and over £38.5 billion in assets under management. Prior to LGIM, Dinesh worked at PwC and KPMG working across Assurance and Deal Advisory roles.
As a young adult who has struggled to access available and affordable housing in London, he is passionate about delivering social impact and improving livelihoods across local communities. He has held various roles within LGIM diversity streams with a focus on Socio-Economic Mobility and provided mentorship to several students interested in a career in the built space. Dinesh is an Independent Member on Wrekin’s Finance and Investment Committee.
Jon Lamb
Executive Director of Finance Jon Lamb
Jon has been a qualified accountant for more than 30 years, with over half of his career based in the social housing sector. He has a depth of experience in all aspects of accounting, financial strategy and planning, audit, risk and assurance and treasury management.
Jon is passionate about delivering a high-quality service to the organisation that provides accurate, reliable and timely information to support business decisions that help to improve the lives of our customers and increase the opportunities available to them.
Jon is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
