Meet your Board

 

Tower Hamlets Homes is run by a board of 15 members - five residents (there is currently one tenant member vacancy), five councillors and five independents, who bring specialist skills and expertise to the board.

 

Resident Board Members

 Sheila Beeton (leaseholder representative)

 Is a Resident Board Member and leaseholder representative living in
 Wapping. She was chair of a steering group considering Housing
 Choice and was previously Head of Human Resources for a 
 University.

 

Ian Fincher (tenant representative)

Ian is a Resident Board Member and is a tenant living in Wapping and  working as Deputy Chief of Lighting at a West End theatre. Ian was an active member of the Area Resident’s Panel and Boroughwide Compact Group and is now a member of the Residents Involvement Panel.

 

 

Shamsul Hoque (tenant representative)

Shamsul is a Resident Board Member and is a tenant living in Collingwood and currently Vice Chair of the Tenants and Residents Association for Collingwood estate, secretary of Collingwood Bangladeshi Elder Group and is a school governor for Osmani School and Swanley Secondary School.

 

Iain Lawson (leaseholder representative)

Iain is a Resident Board Member and leaseholder representative - has been chair of a steering group considering Housing Choice and is chair of Collingwood Tenant and Residents Association. Iain trained as a Civil Engineer and is currently a local mathematics teacher.

 

                            

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Councillor Board Members

 

Councillor Ohid Ahmed

Councillor Ahmed is one of the ward Councillors for East India and Lansbury Ward. He is a member of the Council's Cabinet as Lead Member for Regeneration, Localisation and Community Partnerships. In addition he is a Member of the Creating and Sharing Prosperity CPAG and the Partnership Management Group. He is also the Council representative on the City Fringe Partnership Board, LGA Urban Commission, Limehouse Youth Club Management Committee, London Councils' Economic Development Forum, London Thames Gateway Development Corporation and Thames Gateway London Partnership Board and a Board Member of Tower Hamlets Sports Council.

 

Councillor Fazlul Haque

Represents Weaver's Ward and was recently elected as Councillor. He sits on the Council's Development, Licensing and Human Resources Committees. He has professional expertise in Youth Services and was Secretary of the Chicksand Estate Tenants and Residents Association.

 

 

Councillor Shafiqul Haque

Represents St Katharine’s and Wapping Ward and is Chair of the Council’s Development and Strategic Development Committees.

 

 

 

 

Councillor Alex Heslop 

Represents Bow East and is on the Council’s Development Committee, Standards Committee and Licensing Committee. Alex currently works for Hackney Homes as a Tenant Management Organisation Officer.

 

 

 

Councillor Denise Jones

Represents St Katharine’s and Wapping. She has recently been on East End Homes Shadow Board.  Denise serves on the Council's Development, Pensions, Audit and Appeals Committees and on the Children and Adults Access to Files Panel.

 

 

                                                                                        
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Independent Board Members

 

Christopher Creegan (Chair)

Christopher is an Independent Board Member. He has worked in social research for eight years and is currently Deputy Director of Qualitative Research at the National Centre for Social Research.  Previously he worked for Unison where he was Deputy Director of Equalities, and in local government for the London Borough of Ealing and Westminster City Council. He has extensive experience as a board member of various national and local organisations and served as an elected councillor in Tower Hamlets between 1998 and 2002.

 

Paul Bridge

Paul is an Independent Board Member – and is Chief Executive of Homes for Haringey. He previously worked for a major RSL as Director of Community Subsidiaries and stock transfers, employing over 180 staff responsible for delivering a full housing management service to over 8,000 properties and a development programme of £300m and a transfer programme for another 3,000 properties.
 

 

Naomi Goode

Naomi Goode is an Independent Board Member and is a partner in the social housing department of Lewis Silkin. She has worked as a lawyer in the social housing sector for 14 years. Naomi is on the editorial board of ROOF, the magazine published by Shelter.

 

 

 

Neil Isaac

Neil is an Independent Board Member and a qualified accountant with extensive housing finance experience. He was Director of Resources at three star Hounslow Homes from its start up in 2002 before becoming Director of Finance and Resources at Hackney Homes in October 2006. Neil has recently been invited to take part in the CLG Review of the Housing Finance system. Neil chairs our Audit, Finance and Human Resources Committee.

 

 

Abdool Kara

Abdool is an Independent Board Member, has an MSc in Housing, is currently Assistant Chief Executive of the London Borough of Merton, and previously worked for the Audit Commission, Cabinet Office, Corporation of London and London Borough of Ealing. Abdool chairs our Performance Management Committee.

 

 

 

If you want to find out more about becoming a board member, please email: governance@towerhamletshomes.org.uk  or contact us on 020 7364 7058/0841 and we'll be happy to help.