John Butler
Policy Leader, National Housing Federation

John Butler is the Finance Policy Leader at the National Housing Federation. Having preciously spent three and a half years at PriceWaterhouse Coopers John worked for a marketing company for a year before joining the Federation

Nathan Mallows
Director of Finance, People and Change, Coastline Housing

Nathan is the Director of Finance and ICT at Coastline Housing in Cornwall since January 2016. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant for 4 years supporting various charities, start-ups and Housing providers. Nathan has worked in and around housing for nearly 20 years and been fortunate to be involved with amazing organisations of all shapes and sizes supporting communities and delivering much need new homes predominately across London and the surrounding counties.

Nathan is also the current chair of the National Housing Federation’s Finance Policy Advisory Group which exists to inform and respond to the NHF’s wider policy agenda with particular reference to financial implications for its members.

Corinna Bishopp
Executive Director of Finance, RHP

Corinna joined RHP as Executive Director of Finance in July 2017. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has operated at Director level in a wide variety of industries. Before joining RHP she was Interim Group Finance Director at Thames Valley Housing, and a consultant advising on the Thames Valley and Genesis Housing Association merger. She also worked on the successful IPO at the UK’s Leading Retirement Builder McCarthy & Stone, was Interim Chief Financial Officer at Eversholt Rail and spent over 10 years in Bupa, including as Chief Financial Officer of Bupa Latin America in Miami.

Declared Interests: Corinna is a Director of RHP Finance plc and a Non-Executive Director of Peter Bedford Housing Association.

Imran Mubeen
Director of Treasury, Bromford

Imran leads the Treasury team at Bromford Housing Group, one of the largest regional HAs with over 45,000 homes across Central and South West England. He has delivered over £1bn of new funding over the past four years. He established Bromford’s sector leading dual credit rating platform, issued its debut public bond and inaugural US Private Placement, published its Sustainable Finance Framework (the first in the sector to be accredited by S&P), and delivered the first green and first governance Sustainability Linked Loans in the social housing sector.

Sarah Smith
Chief Financial Officer, Southern Housing

Sarah started her career as an external auditor with BDO Stoy Hayward. Specialising in social housing she moved to KPMG. She moved on to London & Quadrant Group and then to AmicusHorizon/Optivo (now Southern Housing following merger) in 2009. Sarah chairs the g15 Finance Directors’ Group, is Vice Chair of the NHF’s SORP Working Party and sits on the ICAEW social housing sub-committee. She is also a board member of Lewisham Homes and chairs their Audit & Risk Committee. Sarah was joint winner in 2016 for 'Finance Director of the Year' and 'Overall Winner' at the HANA Awards.

Helen Meehan
Chief Financial Officer,, Home Group

Helen became Home Group’s Chief Financial Officer in 2022, having previously been Director of Finance. She joined Home Group in 2015 as Director of Risk and Assurance, moving to Director of Finance in 2018.

Before arriving at Home Group Helen was with PwC, where she oversaw the delivery of high-quality, value-added risk and assurance work internal and external clients.

Mark Baker
Director of Finance and Governance, Raven Housing Trust

Mark Baker joined Raven in 2019. He has worked across the public sector in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire, including finance roles within local government education, children’s services and adult social care departments. Before joining Raven he was director of finance for Sussex Police from 2010 and director of finance within Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Commissioning from 2016. Both roles included responsibility for I.T., procurement and estates. Mark is a qualified accountant and member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.

Richard Conway
Director, Social Housing, Chatham Financial

Richard Conway is a member of Chatham’s Real Estate team, focusing on fundraising and treasury advisory. He helps companies across the social housing, charity, local authority, and corporate sectors optimise their funding and hedging arrangements to better meet their long-term business ambitions. Richard has raised capital for clients across bank, listed and retail bond, and private placement markets in the U.K. and the U.S. He also has extensive experience in pricing and restructuring derivative portfolios.