Our Board and legal structure

Simon is a passionate and experienced Chair and Non-Executive Director with a strong track record in healthcare, education, and housing. His leadership experience includes roles at Shaw Healthcare Group, and a Multi-Academy Trust in South Gloucestershire, where he has played a key role in shaping services that support people and communities.

Simon has a collaborative leadership style and has worked with charities, housing associations, and regional initiatives such as the Impact Alliance, which tackles loneliness across the South West. He is also a founding signatory of the Bristol Property Inclusion Charter, reflecting his commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Simon joined the Board of Alliance Homes in September 2025, continuing his work to help create places and communities where people can thrive.

Louise has worked within social housing for over 20 years and she has extensive experience of contributing to strategic partnerships and of delivering major change and modernisation projects. Louise is also a member of the Alliance Board and the Asset Committee. In 2023 Louise became chair of Homes for the South West.

She is passionate about social justice and delivering services and homes that customers rate as excellent. Prior to joining Alliance Homes Group Louise was Executive Director Customer Services at Curo Group. Louise has also worked as Operations Director at Gloucester Housing Association and in a variety of roles for Somer Community Housing Trust, Guinness Trust and Knightstone Housing. She has also held a number of Non-Executive Director roles.

Jon joined Alliance Homes in 2024 as Chief Finance Officer, and became a member of our Board in September 2025. He has more than two decades of financial leadership experience and a wealth of expertise in the property development sector. As Finance Director at PG Group, he played a key role in delivering landmark regeneration and new build projects, including the Carriage Works development in Bristol, working closely with Homes England to secure funding. 

As Chief Finance Officer and member of the Board, Jon is focused on making sure we continue to make sound financial decisions that support our ambitious plans to invest in our homes, build new affordable housing, and provide great services for our customers.

Carol joined the Board in 2020 to support organisational development and our design and transformation agenda. She is our Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee.

She is an experienced non-executive director and chair with over 10 years Board experience and is Vice Chair Emeritus of UN Women UK.

A Diversity, Equity and Inclusion specialist, Carol has over 25 years of talent management and workforce development experience with broad commercial and financial acumen 

Carol was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2015 Birthday Honours List for services to Women in Business.

Paul joined the Board in 2020 and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

He has over 40 years’ experience in engineering, construction and built asset management, including more than 10 years as a non-executive director and non-executive chair.   He has also been a trustee of several charities, an Officer in the Army Reserves and both a school and FE college Governor. 

During his career, Paul has held several senior executive roles, including chief executive officer and chief operating officer and has previously led multi-disciplinary teams across EMEA delivering large and complex construction projects.  He has experience in initiating, leading or governing joint ventures and strategic alliances, and brings a deep understanding of enabling technology and business performance management.

He spends much of his time working as an executive coach and commercial mediator.  

Amanda joined the Board in 2022 and sits on the Audit and Risk Committee.

She is a professional trustee and business lawyer with almost 30 years of experience in both commercial and not for profit/charitable organisations in a variety of sectors including property development. She is currently Chair of Trustees for Thames Water Pension Fund and Thames Water Mirror Image Pension Fund, as well as a trustee for Victim Support, and for Bristol City Robins Foundation. Amanda also continues to work as a lawyer and a pensions trustee.

As a qualified executive coach and with her experience across several sectors, Amanda feels strongly that good governance and compliance sits alongside empathy and heart in delivering the right services to customers. She is of the view that a safe and comfortable home is a fundamental right and a strong basis for enabling people to fulfil their potential. She brings a range of experiences and skills that focus on supporting organisations to be effective and to deliver successful customer experiences of the services they provide.

Ciaran joined the Board in 2022. He is a local councillor and in 2023 was appointed Mayor of Weston-super-Mare.

He has over 10 years’ experience delivering services to communities and has previously worked at organisations such as National Energy Action, Department of Energy and Climate Change and Citizens Advice where he was responsible for leading programmes of multi-national services supporting 100,000s of people a year.

Ciaran is passionate about the positive impact that housing can have on communities and how this can play an important role in tackling inequalities. He brings a range of experiences and skills that focus on delivering community centric services, implementing change and bringing the voice of communities into decision making.

Joy is the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and is also the Member Responsible for Complaints.

With a background in accountancy, Joy has extensive experience supporting a wide range of banking and not-for-profit organisations and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Joy was previously Chief Executive Officer of Integrity Action, a UK-based INGO which builds integrity and resilience in some of the world's most challenging environments. She won the Institute of Directors' Director of the Year award in the South East (2013) for this role.

Venura Perera joined the Board as a co-opted member in summer 2025, bringing a strong background in technology, data science, and inclusive design.

He’s the co-founder of Jolly Green Frogs Ltd, which builds AI tools to support accessibility and education. Before that, he was Director of Innovation at Allianz UK, where he set up a new team and helped launch a business focused on using data to improve services.

Venura has hands-on experience creating digital tools for websites, mobile apps, and desktop platforms. He’s passionate about inclusive technology and currently works part-time as Chief Technology Officer at Inclued.AI, leading the development of tools that help organisations write more inclusive content.

He also cares deeply about social impact and governance. He’s an Associate Non-Executive Director at Devon Partnership NHS Trust, where he advises on digital transformation and chairs the Charitable Funds Committee.