Our executive team
Mark Mayler, group chief executive
Mark is our new CEO, starting in the role from 1 June. Prior to this Mark was chief finance officer at Selwood Housing. Our chief executive is responsible for making sure we deliver against our targets and plans set out by our board of directors. Mark is also responsible for managing the executive team.
Mark is Selwood Housing’s health and safety lead for the purposes of section 126C(2) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.
Mark has worked in senior finance roles for over 20 years, across a variety of sectors.
Darren Bird, interim group operations director
Darren has been at Selwood Housing since 2010 and is responsible for all our front-line services to customers. His teams ensure a consistent and ever improving service to customers, so our neighbourhoods are great places to live, our homes are safe and well maintained and we deliver efficient and effective services to all our customers. Our operational teams are local so know our customers well and are passionate about helping them.
Darren is the senior person accountable for Selwood Housing complaints for the purposes of the Housing Ombudsman’s Complaints Handling Code. He also has responsibility for safeguarding and Selwood Housing’s compliance with the operational consumer standards. This includes the safety and quality standard, the neighbourhood and accountability standard, the tenancy standard and part of the transparency, influence and accountability standard.
Ria Bristow, group organisational change and people director
Ria leads on change across Selwood Housing, responsible for projects that deliver both short-term improvements and long-term value for customers.
Ria is also responsible for our people and learning & development teams, as well as health and safety, facilities and business continuity.
Paul Walsh, group development director
Paul and his team drive forward the development of new homes, increasing both our social housing stock as well as homes that are available to buy under shared ownership. Our ambition is to build 1,700 affordable homes by 2034. He is also responsible for the marketing and communications team and the involvement team.
He also has responsibility for Selwood Housing’s compliance with the customer involvement part of the transparency, influence, and accountability consumer standard.
Dean Wood, group director of data and digital
Our group director of data and digital leads Selwood Housing’s long‑term transformation of technology, digital delivery, data governance and organisational insight.
Dean is responsible for looking at how we can gain the most from modern technologies, in a secure and customer focused way and will strengthen the way we use data to make decisions, improve performance and anticipate customer needs.
Dean will ensure our people have the systems, processes and digital confidence to deliver excellent services.
Starting soon
Group director of finance and commercial
This role ensures that we get the best value for money across all our services for our customers and that we have strong finances to maintain and invest in our customers’ homes, as well as to build new affordable homes.
This role oversees all aspects of our financial management, controls and governance. It is also responsible for procurement and commercial services.
