Our board of directors

Sheila is the chair of the Selwood Housing board, and has worked in the housing sector for more than 40 years, where she began her early career in development and major repairs.

For the past 30 years she has been a management consultant working with housing associations, local authorities and charities. Sheila has been a non-executive director for different housing associations for over 10 years.

Steve is a professional engineer by trade and recently retired as a senior manager for a regional utilities company. He has lived in Trowbridge for over 30 years and is a Wiltshire councillor and Trowbridge town councillor. Steve will use his experience as a chartered engineer, his knowledge of the local community and working in a regulated organisation to support the work of Selwood Housing Group.

Chris is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) with around 30 years of commercial and professional experience. He was a corporate finance partner with PwC, has held various commercial board positions and now leads the Ventures Services team at Resonance Impact Investment where the mission is to arrange capital for charities and social enterprises.

Chris is also an independent advisor to the Cornwall Council Audit Committee and Governor/Treasurer to Taunton School. Chris lives in Taunton and is married to Janet, with three grown-up children.

David is Chair and Director of Innovation at DEfactoED, a digital education business which provides online training in digital transformation for people working in private and public sector organisations.

Before co-founding DEfactoEd in 2017, David spent the larger part of his professional career with PwC, becoming a Consulting Partner in 1995 and spending over 20 years supporting a large number of organisations around the globe on their business transformation programs.

David is passionate about the opportunities that digital presents to revolutionise our lives and about preparing people for this new revolution.

Richard is a Selwood Housing shared ownership customer living on our new Edmund Park development in Frome. He has 30 years of customer service experience working in medium to large companies in commercial and higher education sectors. He most recently worked as the service manager for Citizens Advice in Bath.

He has a passion for all things customer and will be working to ensure customers voices are always heard and considered in his new role on our board of directors.

Stella is a business studies graduate with 20 years of industry experience, which includes a background in accounts for distribution, law and property companies, and experience in purchase to payment process improvement.

Stella currently works as a bookkeeper for a local accountants and is a Selwood Housing shared ownership customer.

Valerie has over 30 years commercial experience with many well-known retail and FMCG brands across both the private and public sector. She has lived in Bath and North East Somerset for the last 20 years with her husband who is a primary school teacher and her two girls, who attended school in Wells and Radstock.

Valerie is passionate about supporting businesses that strive to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities across the South West. She is currently Chair of Sphere Leisure, a subsidiary of the Circadian Trust charity which operates leisure centres in the South Gloucestershire area, and she is also a board member at Plymouth Community Homes.