Legal & General Affordable Homes refreshes board and adds a further Non-Executive Director role

With two current Board members coming to the end of their tenures, the key changes are:

• Ian Peters takes over as Chair of the Board from current Chair, Ian Graham
• Kathryn Davis joins the Board as the new independent non-executive director
• Kevin Gould takes over from Karen Wilson as the Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee

Ian Peters brings to the Board extensive management experience and knowledge of the housing landscape and financial services. During his time as Vice-Chair of the Peabody Trust, he led the merger of Family Mosaic with Peabody to create one of London’s largest housing associations. As CEO of British Gas he initiated the roll out of the UK’s largest smart meter network and shaped the “Connected Homes” technology including Hive. He is also Chair of UK Health Security Agency and a number of growth technology, sustainability and social impact companies. He starts his tenure as Chair of the LGAH Board on 1 Jan 2024.

Joining the Board with immediate effect as the new independent non-executive director, Kathryn Davis will bring further financial services skills along with housing association experience to bolster the Board’s efforts to reinforce robust processes.

Kathryn has 26 years of experience at the city law firm Slaughter and May where she advised clients from a variety of sectors across a wide range of practice areas. She was previously a non-executive director at the G-15 housing association Metropolitan Thames Valley. Kathryn is an external member of the University of Oxford’s Audit and Scrutiny Committee, a non-executive director, Deputy Chair of Council and Chair of the Estates Committee at the Girls’ Day School Trust and a Visiting Senior Fellow in Practice at LSE Law School.

Taking over from Karen Wilson as the Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee, Kevin Gould also joins the Board with immediate effect.

Kevin has more than 30 years’ experience in financial services and consulting, focusing on governance, risk and audit. He was Chief Internal Auditor at the International Bank of Qatar and later led Internal Audit’s strategic initiatives and support operations at the Royal Bank of Scotland. He is a non-executive director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee for both Grand Union Housing Group and Look Ahead Care & Support. Until recently, he served as a non-executive director and chaired the audit committee at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.