Meet the Management Team
Gavin
Cansfield, Chief Executive
With a background in housing, regeneration and homelessness,
Gavin has worked for a number of housing associations in the West
Midlands and London. Gavin joined as Chief Executive in November
2008 having worked at Hanover
Housing for four years, Southern Housing Group, Focus [now
Midland Heart], Shape and managed a New Deal for Communities
pathfinder. He has an MBA from Warwick Business School.
Barbara
Brownlee, Director of Neighbourhood Services
Barbara’s career started with Lewisham
Council, where she was a Housing Advisor providing homeless advice
and support. She moved to Haringey Council, where she worked with
private sector tenants and landlords to improve and adapt their
properties and on to Hackney where she developed neighbourhood
services and ran Estate Regeneration for the Borough. This was
followed by eight years in the private sector delivering service
improvements for a number of housing organisations in the South
East.
Les Warren, Director
of Finance and Customer Services Les started his career with Deloitte.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant he
then moved into industry working for one of his
former audit
clients - a publicly
listed property and housebuilding company. After a short
spell working abroad, he moved back to London and took
up a consultancy role
with the London Borough of Camden, advising and leading upon
various transformation projects in the borough's housing
department. In 2004, Les joined London Borough of
Lambeth to design,
develop and implement a debt management strategy - a key
Council priority at the time. He was later appointed head
of finance and in late 2007 was seconded to establish Lambeth's
ALMO, Lambeth Living. Les joins us from Lambeth Living where he was
interim Director of Resources.
Jamie Carswell, Director
of Investment Services
Jamie joined Tower
Hamlets Homes from Hackney, where he was Deputy Executive Mayor,
having had a leading role in strategic housing, performance
management, communications and forming local strategic
partnerships. He has worked in housing for 9 years, and has been
involved throughout in corporate governance, regeneration and the
relationships with tenants and residents; previously he worked in
the NHS.