Our Homes board

Jeremy has 15 years’ experience at board level in commercial roles and has spent two decades working in community leadership roles in Staffordshire. In 2011, he became a borough councillor and was appointed cabinet member for communities at Stafford Borough Council, with special responsibility for housing, health and wellbeing in 2015. He has also been a county councillor since 2017.

He is an active member of a number of local boards and panels including the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent health and wellbeing board, Health Staffordshire’s select committee, HM Prison Drake Hall’s equality and diversity scrutiny panel, Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group and Stafford United Almshouses.

Having spent many years in commercial and general management roles, he also has experience in the logistics industry and household products, food and packaging markets.

Catherine is an organisational development professional specialising in executive coaching. She has worked in senior positions in the housing sector for over 17 years assisting them with her extensive experience and skills in HR, learning, employee engagement, performance and business improvement and transformation, governance and compliance, marketing communications and diversity and inclusion. This experience will assist in her role as chair of the people committee, previously the renumeration committee.

Formerly executive director of business improvement at Platform Housing Group, Catherine has a real passion for developing businesses and leadership development. She holds a Fellowship of the CIPD, a Level 7 qualification in executive coaching and mentoring and is she is also MBTI 1 and 2 qualified.

Catherine is committed to assisting the sector to improve lives for customers as she believes that housing is a fundamental need and one that makes the most significant difference to people’s quality of life, well-being and opportunities.

With extensive experience in customer services and business development, Rachel worked in a variety of senior roles at South Staffs Water. As customer services director, Rachel was responsible for service delivery, customer insight, inclusion and communication, customer contact, billing and debt collection activity, achieving maximum revenue collection and high customer satisfaction.

Rachel has considerable board experience within both the public and private sector. She has a strong record of advising on policy, business transformation, growth and innovation whilst building and managing successful stakeholder relations and developing robust governance structures.

Rachel has a passion for delivering service excellence and continuous improvement.