Our team

Philip is a chartered surveyor, with strong executive and non-executive experience in the profit, not for profit and charitable sectors within Care Quality Commission, Social Housing Regulator and Charities Commission regulatory framework.

Philip’s experience in the private sector bridges national, local, public and private housing work including development and legal court work.

He’s an experienced Chairman, who has worked in partnership with CEOs and Executive teams to deliver transformational change at scale, performance improvement and mergers and acquisitions.

He has over 20 years of experience in the Registered Provider sector as a chair and non-executive director, during a period of increasing demands on Governance and regulatory control.

Steve has a wealth of experience establishing and managing high achieving teams and partnerships across the country; in local government, private housing and the third sector. His key focuses are empowering communities and working in partnership to improve lives.

Nicola is a social policy leader creating systems change through enabling people to collaborate well. Nicola is Strategic Lead for Ageing in Place at the GM Ageing Hub at Greater Manchester Combined Authority, where her work on the ‘Ageing in Place Pathfinder’ focuses on hearing and valuing the voices of people in mid and later life in order to change and improve outcomes in their neighbourhoods.

Throughout her career Nicola has championed collaboration, co-production and social investment to create change and tackle inequality. Nicola is an experienced coach and facilitator and an advocate for the power of creativity and culture in mobilising social change.

Nicola has held several trustee roles with national and local organisations.

Eleanor is an independent consultant on housing projects that are aimed at enhancing affordability, quality, and sustainability in the UK.

She currently works with bluechip companies on retrofit in social housing. She is also part of a national innovation project, backed by the UK government, that seeks to raise the standards of private rented sector homes.

With a diverse background including roles at Homes England, Legal & General Affordable Homes, Local Authorities, RPs and social impact investment, Eleanor brings a great deal of expertise to her work for Livv Housing Group. Her contributions to the sector are award-winning, with recognition from Property Week, Estates Gazette, and Grant Thornton.

Tony is a chartered accountant. He’s worked in the social housing sector for 25 years in both Executive and Non-Executive positions. As well as his Non-Executive Director (NED) role with Livv Housing Group, Tony’s other NED appointments in the social housing sector in England are at Shropshire Towns & Rural Housing (Shropshire Council’s ALMO) and One Manchester.

Ann started her career in hospitality working in hotels and restaurants across Europe. Whilst working for Whitbread, she developed her leadership skills attending the Disney Institute of Leadership in Florida and delivered leadership programmes supporting the launch of new brands.

After this she worked in retail financial services at Santander and Yorkshire Bank, then following the banking crisis of 2008 merged three failed Regional Building Societies into Nationwide Building Society.

She has spent 11 years working as an Executive Director in the housing and social care sector at Anchor, Metropolitan and post-merger, Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing as Executive Director of Customer Services.

John is the Director of Commercial & Procurement at Full Fibre Limited, a builder and operator of ultrafast broadband networks. He has previously held Asset Management roles at Manchester Airport Group and was a management consultant in the Major Projects division of EY.

John is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor.

Claire is Director of Operational Finance and Deputy Section 73 Officer at Greater Manchester Combined Authority.  She has a background in finance, change management, transformation, customer services, procurement, risk and audit with experience gained predominantly in the housing and local government sectors.

She trained to be an accountant in the NHS and worked in the private sector for Littlewoods Lotteries shortly after achieving her CIPFA qualification.

Claire actively undertakes non-executive work outside of her substantive role, currently working for a local housing association and a charitable sporting foundation in a non-executive capacity.

Claire is an academic mentor and has a diploma in coaching.

Andy is an experienced housing professional specialising in development of new homes, sales, asset management and repairs as well as corporate management.

He is a Chartered Surveyor and also a member of the Chartered institute of Housing and has recently retired from an Executive Director role at 20,000 home Yorkshire Housing.

Throughout Andy’s 38 year housing career he has also held a variety of non-Executive roles including board memberships at a specialist building college, local authority ALMO and the chair of a small community based housing provider.

With more challenges for customers and housing providers Andy is particularly keen to ensure we help and support vulnerable and disadvantaged groups whilst maintaining a viable, well governed and creative business.

Initially starting his career in banking, and undertaking a wide variety of roles, from customer facing ones in branches across the Liverpool area to senior strategy and finance roles, Jonathan moved into the mutual building society sector where he has now been for over 24 years. Having specialised in strategy and finance, including operating as Finance Director at three societies, he moved to Chief Executive Officer of West Bromwich Building Society in 2011.

With a passion for true purpose led business, Jonathan has overseen the transformation of the Society, refocussing its activities on its founding principles of 175 years, which means getting people into the security of their own homes.

In addition to his role as Chief Executive, Jonathan also is a trustee and chair of the Society’s charitable foundation, and chair of its residential letting subsidiary. He is also a past chair of the building society sector’s representative body, the BSA.