Our Board

Andy is an experienced housing professional specialising in development of new homes, sales, asset management and repairs as well as corporate management.

He is a Chartered Surveyor and also a member of the Chartered institute of Housing and in 2024 retired from an Executive Director role at 20,000 home Yorkshire Housing.

Throughout Andy’s 38 year housing career he has also held a variety of non-Executive roles including board memberships at a specialist building college, local authority ALMO and the chair of a small community based housing provider.

With more challenges for customers and housing providers Andy is particularly keen to ensure we help and support vulnerable and disadvantaged groups whilst maintaining a viable, well governed and creative business.

In 2025 Andy joined the Board of LIVV Housing Group, Karbon Homes and is Chair of 54 North Homes

Ulfat is Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Operations of Manningham Housing Association with specific responsibility for the delivery of housing management, maintenance, and asset management services, as well as the strategic lead for HR, ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Ulfat has over 17 years of senior management experience at both small and large housing associations.  A Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, Ulfat is passionate about ensuring the professionalism of the social housing sector and putting tenants at the heart of everything we do. 

Gill is Chair of P3 Housing, a Karbon Homes Board Member and also a Board Member of the newly formed 54 North Homes.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and has worked in social housing for over 35 years.  Before retiring in 2019, Gill spent 12 years as Director of Housing and Customer Services at Nottingham City Homes(NCH).  Gill joined the Executive of NCH at a time of turbulence and her commitment to performance management saw the organisation's fortunes turn around.  In 2018 they were named Social Landlord of the Year at the national housing awards.

Gill has extensive experience in all areas of housing management and also has a wealth of experience of partnership working including crime and disorder, and taking the company lead for health, serving on the Nottingham Health and Wellbeing Board and Nottinghamshire STP Housing Group. Her involvement with the Corporate Parenting Board led to her fostering teenagers for almost 10 years. 

Gill spent a number of years as a Neighbourhood Renewal Advisor for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Gill has been on the Boards of a number of organisations including Nottingham School Trust, NCH Enterprise Limited and Click Nottingham, as well as serving as a school governor for over a decade.  

Gill is passionate about social housing and the role housing plays in making a real and lasting difference to the communities the organisation serves. Gill is committed to giving customers a voice and believes putting them at the heart of decision making is key to improving service delivery. Gill is excited to be part of the new 54North Homes Board and to making the most of the opportunities for new development and transformational service delivery available to the new organisation.  

Paul is the Group Chief Executive of Karbon Homes.

He trained as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse before joining Sunderland Football Club in 1992, becoming Company Secretary and General Manager.

Paul first joined the social housing sector as a board member in 1993 and has held a variety of senior roles in housing since then.

 Paul is currently Chair of the Northern Housing Consortium and a Placeshapers board member. He is also Chair of the Retrofit Steering Group of the North East England Climate Coalition and was until recently Chair of Clanmil Housing Association based in Northern Ireland.

Being a board member who is also a customer (at Catherine's Walk in Barnsley), Juanita brings a unique perspective to the board. As a disabled person, she is an advocate for the importance of equality and diversity, as well as affordable, good-quality housing.

She is particularly concerned about the wellbeing of the more vulnerable members of society, and welcomes the opportunity to contribute to 54North Homes work with communities, strengthening our customer-centric culture and providing gold-standard customer service.

Juanita has a background in real estate, as well as having spent a few years in the NHS corporate environment. She was appointed to the board of LYHA in April 2022, and then to the 54N board on the merger of the two organisations. Juanita is a member of our Customer Service Committee.

Jeremy Earnshaw has over 30 years of Main Board Executive and Non-Executive Director experience in both private and public sector organisations. His Executive roles included 7 years as Chief Financial Officer with Your Housing Group in the Regulated Housing Sector, together with two PLC CFO positions and CFO posts in Private Equity and Venture Capital-backed organisations. 

Jeremy is now a Non-Executive Director at four organisations, including a global FMCG business, a fully listed PLC Property Development company, and an Early-Stage e-commerce technology organisation. 

He complements his wide technical and Board experience with a passion for people development. He is a qualified Coach & Mentor at the highest level with the Institute of Leadership & Management, and delivers Executive Education in the areas of Finance, MBA, Leadership, Strategy, Board Development and Corporate Governance.

Jeremy focuses his experience at 54North Homes upon delivering social value alongside commercial success, and is excited to be part of a diverse Board in the critical Social Housing Sector.

Matt is a digital service design specialist. He has worked with a wide range of organisations in sectors including government, media, telecoms, retail and energy. As service transformation director in NHS England, he currently leads on digital for urgent and emergency care.

Matt has lived and worked in Leeds for more than 20 years, and was volunteer host of the annual design thinking and innovation event Leeds GovJam.

Knowing that a decent, warm home is one of the biggest contributors to good health, Matt is inspired by 54North Homes' commitment to create more new homes in Yorkshire and to involve customers in improving the services we provide for them and their communities.

Natasha is CEO at Better Connect, a non-profit organisation that leads programmes which aim to create a Yorkshire where every person is empowered to thrive in their life and work. She has previously worked for charities and social enterprises and she has been an entrepreneur, all with the aim of supporting the growth of people and businesses across Yorkshire.

Natasha completed an MBA at Leeds University in 2016, where she is now a leader in residence. She was appointed to be Regional Entrepreneur Director for NatWest supporting and helping to coach hundreds of entrepreneurs in accelerators across the North to start, scale and succeed.  Natasha has both a banking and legal background.  She worked as a banking lawyer at Walker Morris and she was Regional Sales Director and Client Services Director at Lloyds Bank.

Natasha was appointed trustee in 2021 for Trust Leeds and is on the board of Chain Lane Community Hub. She is a committee member of the Employment and Skills Committee in West Yorkshire Combined Authority and a steering group member of the North Yorkshire VCSE sector Health and Care Assembly. 

Natasha plays football for Leeds City Lasses and Harrogate Railway Reserves and coaches under 10 girl’s football.  Natasha is a proud mum of two children and lives in Harrogate.

Oliver Boundy joined the Board of 54 North Homes in June 2025, bringing more than two decades of leadership experience across housing, regeneration, sales, strategic asset management and community focused development. Oliver has held senior and Executive roles at several organisations including Southern Housing Group, Origin and Metropolitan, he has been Executive Director Development at Anchor since 2022.