Appointments round-up: May

ForHousing

Henry Terefenko started as chief executive of ForHousing on 1 April, having previously been group director of communities at the organisation’s parent, ForViva.

 

Mr Terefenko began his career as a rent officer in 2008 at Salford City Council’s ALMO, before transferring to ForViva group member City West Housing Trust upon stock transfer.

 

He gained experience in a number of roles across the group, including commercial director at ForViva’s construction division, and most recently group director of communities at ForViva.

 

West Kent

Frank Czarnowski will retire from his role as chief executive of West Kent at the end of this year.

Mr Czarnowski has held the role since 2010, having first joined the Sevenoaks-headquartered housing association in 2001 as finance director. A process to recruit his successor began in early May.

 

One Housing

One Housing has appointed Chyrel Brown to the new role of chief operating officer.

 

Ms Brown will join One Housing in July from Hyde, where she has been director of resident services and interim group director of housing.

 

She is also a board member at Barnsbury Housing Association and an independent scrutiny panel member at Network Homes.

 

Mazars

International accountancy and advisory firm Mazars has appointed a new national head of housing.

 

Vincent Marke, a director at Mazars since 2016, takes up the role, replacing Lee Cartwright who moved to Beever & Struthers on 1 May.

 

An auditor by training, Mr Marke has worked in the social housing sector for more than 20 years, including five years as the finance director of a social housing provider.

 

Capsticks

Capsticks has boosted its housing team with the appointment of a new banking partner, Laurence Gorley.

 

Mr Gorley’s focus is banking and finance transactions, including capital markets transactions, leveraged finance and real estate finance transactions, and debt restructuring.

 

He brings experience in both the UK and the US, and previously worked at city firm Dechert.

 

B3Living

Hertfordshire-based B3Living has appointed two new executives, following on from the arrival in March of new chief executive Steve Woodcock, former operations director at Housing Solutions.

 

Chris Ellison takes up the role of operations director, with responsibility for housing and property services. He previously held executive interim/consultant roles in housing, and senior roles at Circle Housing Group (now part of Clarion).

 

John Hayden will begin the role of executive director of growth in July, taking responsibility for development, new business, and the organisation’s commercial development subsidiary Everlea Homes. He brings senior leadership experience, including as corporate director at Braintree Council.

 

JLL

Paul Tyrrell, former head of social housing for England and Wales at RBS, has joined real estate advisory JLL as a business development consultant in the affordable housing business.

 

Mr Tyrrell joins JLL’s affordable housing team, but will also contribute to the advisory’s wider ‘Living’ business, which includes student housing and healthcare.

 

Newlon Housing Trust

Ezinne Ogbonna has been appointed business development director at north London association Newlon Housing Trust, succeeding Caroline Pennock, who retired at the end of March.