Priya Nair
Chief Executive, The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC)

A senior executive with over 25 years’ experience in financial services, infrastructure and housing, Priya is passionate about leveraging sustainable, long-term investment to help deliver positive economic and societal outcomes in the affordable housing sector. Before joining in March 2024, Priya was a Senior Director at abrdn in its infrastructure team. With a focus on infrastructure and housing, Priya was responsible for financing, capital raising and deal strategy across all its flagship infrastructure funds and investments. Prior to that, Priya spent over 13 years at the Royal Bank of Canada in their global private markets team and seven years at Citi.

In addition to leading THFC, Priya acts as a senior advisor to organisations working across government, infrastructure and technology where she provides counsel on corporate finance, governance, risk management and investment strategies. She is a Non-Executive Director and the Chair of the Investment Committee at the Port of London Authority and a Senior Adviser to Good Governance Capital. Priya also supports several non-profit originations and charities with a focus on sport and education. She is currently a Senior Trustee of community sports charity, Sported, the UK’s largest network of community groups supporting half a million young people through the power of sport.

Catherine Raynsford
Director of Investment and Partnerships, The Hyde Group

As Director of Investment and Partnerships for the Hyde Group, Catherine is responsible for securing the investment and delivering the new partnership models that enable Hyde to grow its development pipeline. Since joining Hyde in 2020 she has led a team to identify, develop and enhance long-term relationships with a broad range of partners including institutional investors. The strategy aims to delivery meaningful additionality by working with culturally aligned partners and utilising Hyde’s established delivery and operational platforms to provide more high quality, sustainable affordable homes.

Catherine joined Hyde following 9 years at JLL, specialising in public private partnerships and working with public sector landowners to bring forward major development and regeneration projects. Catherine is a member of the BPF’s Affordable Housing Committee, the IPF Residential Special Interest Group, and was part of the Governance Steering Group that helped establish the Sustainability Reporting Standard.

Caroline Moore
Chief Financial Officer, Abri

Caroline is Chief Financial Officer of Abri Group, and a member of the Board. Caroline manages the Finance, Treasury & Financial Planning and Safety& Resilience directorates, Caroline also oversees compliance with legal and regulatory obligations.

Caroline was previously CFO at Yarlington, and has also held several non-Exec roles, including Chair of the Audit Committee at Yeovil NHS Trust, and the Employers’ elected member on the Somerset Local Government Pension Fund Committee. Caroline joined Yarlington from PricewaterhouseCoopers. She also spent an early part of her career in financial regulation at the Housing Corporation. Caroline is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Kal Kay
Chief Financial Officer, Your Housing Group

Kal joined YHG in October 2023 having started out her career in the private sector. The last 20 years, however, have been spent working across the public and not-for-profit sector, holding senior finance roles in Local Government, Health, Charities, Housing, and Education. Responsible for ongoing financial sustainability and viability and identifying and implementing operational improvements and business development opportunities. All the while, embracing our culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout our organisation, Kal will be helping to shape the new strategy and enable the aspirations of the Group through finance and growth.

Naomi Dobraszczyc
Director of Finance and Resources, Nottingham Community Housing Association

Naomi joined Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA) in 2019 where she is currently Director of Finance and Resources. Before joining NCHA, Naomi worked for a number of small and medium sized registered providers for many years. She has also previously held Board and Committee Member roles within the social housing sector.

Richard Petty
Head of UK Residential Valuation, JLL

Richard Petty is the Head of UK Residential Valuation at JLL, with responsibility for all the residential valuation teams across the country. The Residential Valuation teams cover the full range of residential property and specialist sectors including affordable housing, prime residential, PRS, build-to-rent and strategic advisory work on residential portfolios. The JLL Residential Valuation team is made up of 120 specialist staff, based in nine cities: London, Bristol, Exeter, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh,together giving complete, national coverage.

Richard has over 37 years’ professional experience, with the last 28 years principally focussed on the affordable housing sector. He and the JLL affordable housing team advise on all aspects of the valuation of affordable housing, acting for all the lenders in the sector and for over 300 RPs, large and small, including all members of the G15; as well as leading equity investors, private developers and local authorities.

Darren Watmough
Director of Finance and Resources, Alpha Living

Darren has worked in and around social housing for thirty years as a finance and governance professional. His first role was with Northern Counties Housing Association (now Guinness NC), with later roles being primarily with smaller housing associations. He has worked as a housing consultant and for the Regulator of Social Housing. He has interests in equality issues, and has worked for an LGBT charity and a BAME housing association. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds a MSc degree in Corporate Governance.