Our team
Here you will find information about our Executive and Senior Leadership Team, who are responsible for managing the key things we do here at Red Kite.
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Trevor Morrow
Chief Executive
Trevor has been our Chief Executive since we became Red Kite in December 2011.
Trevor's focus is ensuring we develop our tenant led approach and maintain great culture where staff, the board, tenants and key partners work to provide more homes, great services and deliver our purpose of enabling residents to realise their potential.
Spending time ensuring we work with the right partners who can meet our aspirations is key.
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Alan Keers
Deputy Chief Executive
Alan has worked in the sector for over 30 years. He leads the operational side of the business that covers development, commercial, property, repairs, community and relationship, focusing on delivering great customer service.
He is also Chief Executive of Twenty11 - a new housing company offering a range of options that are affordable for all members of the community.
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Ray Prior
Group Director of Resources
With experience in change and specialist knowledge of finance and resources, Ray prides himself in creating a culture of finance as a partner with operations to achieve corporate objectives.
Ray has more than ten years senior management responsibility for corporate services including IT and facilities and has implemented new and innovative procedures that improved efficiency and cost effectiveness in the private and not for profit sector.
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Colin Gummow
Assistant Director - Finance
Colin overseas our Progress and Finance teams and ensures we have the financial resources and IT infrastructure required by all areas of the business, continually stretching our capacity to grow and ensuring this power is translated effectively and efficiently into the delivery of innovative services to our customers and communities.
The Progress team also seeks to improve services for customers through the project of corporate projects as well as improving the user experience of our systems.
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Mark Haines
Director of Property
Mark heads up our development, property and sustainability pods and has responsibility for supporting the growth of the business by maximising the use of our assets.
Mark's teams are at the forefront of our ambitions to provide sector leading services using cutting edge technology and ensuring that we provide great homes for our customers. This is achieved by both the delivery of new homes through our development strategy, as well as investing in our existing homes.
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Simone Russell
Interim Director of Customer Service
Simone has many years of experience in the housing sector and is passionate about delivering brilliant services for tenants and their communities.
Simone’s teams are responsible for delivering Red Kite’s customer-facing services and managing empty homes. Simone’s main goal is to make sure that Red Kite’s tenants have the best possible experience when they need to contact Red Kite and that tenants can always rely on us to deliver services in a professional and caring way, which meet their needs and aspirations.
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David Gerard
Head of People
David makes sure we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time.
His team have a broad range of responsibilities including recruitment, people development, employee and community engagement, volunteering and administration and corporate support.
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Catherine Gray
Head of Progress
Catherine is passionate about delivering change and seeking out improvement opportunities.
She enjoys the challenge of working in an organisation that is ambitious and relentless in its pursuit to deliver excellent services to customers.
Catherine's team are responsible for technology, change and UX (user experience).
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Jonathan Radcliffe
Head of Community
Jonathan is responsible for managing the Estates, Homes, Sheltered and ASB teams.
The Estates team complete regular checks to make the places you live in are safe. The Homes team work with tenants to sustain their tenancies as well as resolving ASB cases. The Sheltered team offers a bespoke service within our sheltered sites ensuring that individuals are able to interact within their community and remain living independently.
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Sarah Mei Ying North
Head of Potential
Sarah heads up our Potential Pod with responsibility for important developments and improvements in services and products that are provided to our customers.
The team brings together all elements of information, intelligence and feedback to develop better solutions and services that will keep the Red Kite Group at the cutting edge of the housing sector. Sarah is also Assistant Director of Twenty11, our new housing company offering a range of options that are affordable for all members of the community.
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Sophie Phillips
Head of Resident and Community Engagement
Sophie heads up our Resident and Community Engagement Team and is passionate about supporting tenants and giving them the opportunity to help Red Kite improve its services. She brings 10 years’ of housing experience in roles focusing on tenant and community engagement.
Sophie’s team is responsible for delivering our community investment programme, leading the implementation of the Resident and Community Engagement Strategy and developing partnerships that help to realise the potential in our communities.
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Karen O'Donnell
Head of Governance
Karen is Head of Governance and Red Kite’s Company Secretary. She has 20 years’ experience of governance and compliance in a number of regulated sectors, including housing, financial services and utilities, as well as having been Company Secretary for a large PLC working with institutional investors. She is Deputy Company Secretary of Twenty11.
She leads Red Kite’s governance, regulatory and legislative compliance, the risk, assurance and internal audit function and is our data protection officer.
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Alan Wylde
Head of Development
Alan heads up the Development team with responsibility for developing and acquiring new homes for Red Kite.
He has delivered new housing for over 20 years and is particularly interested in the sustainability and low carbon agenda.
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Julie Gamble-Kempe
Head of Communications and Brand
Julie is responsible for how we communicate as a business, both internally and externally. This includes our website, social media, PR, internal communications and our brand.
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Halima Hassan
Head of Relationships
Halima is our Head of Relationships, responsible for managing our Contact Centre, Feedback and team of Relationship Specialists. From the various ways our customers contact us - be that over the phone, by email, webchat or in person - to supporting customers to maintain their tenancies when it comes to rent, Halima's team is our front facing service that works with tenants to make sure they can access our teams and any information they need that is related to their home.
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William Walker
Head of Property
William leads the Property Pod, who are responsible for delivering repairs and voids, home safety and assests. The main aim is to ensure that all tenants have a safe and well-maintained home in which to live. |
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Mark Haines
Director of Property
Mark heads up our development, property and sustainability pods and has responsibility for supporting the growth of the business by maximising the use of our assets.
Mark's teams are at the forefront of our ambitions to provide sector leading services using cutting edge technology and ensuring that we provide great homes for our customers. This is achieved by both the delivery of new homes through our development strategy, as well as investing in our existing homes.
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