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The Land Trust Annual Review 2021

Jon Irvine Deborah Rees

Jon Irvine, from Homes England, joined the board of Deborah was appointed to the board of Trustees in
Trustees in September 2019. Jon is an experienced December 2019. She brings 30 years’ experience
Chartered Surveyor who has worked for Homes England as a Senior Investment Banker primarily as a
(previously the Homes and Communities Agency) since Director for Barclays Investment Bank and Merrill
2004 in a number of roles including management of the Lynch. She is now a Non-Executive Director and
agency’s Commercial Joint Ventures and leading the member of the Investment Committee of The
Development and Disposals teams. Jon currently leads Methodist Insurance Company.and a pension fund
the Contingent Assets and Liabilities and Commercial trustee for the Leprosy Mission International.
Disposals Team dealing with the resolution of historic
land and property matters alongside disposals of the
agency’s non-core and commercial land. William Hiscocks – Chair Sarah Whitney Tom Keevil Patrick Aylmer
Sandra Kelly
Sandra was appointed to the Board of Trustees in
Nick Taylor-Buck December 2019. A Chartered Accountant, she was
formerly Finance Director of the Canal & River Trust.
Nick was appointed to our board of trustees in Prior to that she spent eight years as Finance Director
December 2019. Nick is the Research Manager for the at NHBC (the National House Building Council). She
Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield. He is a Non-Executive director of Finsbury Growth &
previously worked on the ‘Realising Just Cities’ project, Income Trust plc as well as being Chair and Governer of
helping to co-ordinate the programme of work and Headington School in Oxford. She previously held senior
the design, delivery and evaluation of co-production finance positions in the commercial sector, most notably
projects across two-city regions in the North of England. for BMW GB.
He has a PHD in the natural sciences and is also a
qualified Chartered Surveyor.

Janet Haddock-Fraser Anthony Bickmore Louise Brooke-Smith Jon Irvine
Nick McLeod-Clarke
Chair of the Trust’s Investment Committee, Nick
spent over 31 years working for several asset
management organisations, the last 17 years as
a Managing Director with BlackRock, currently the
world’s largest asset manager. Nick spent almost
all of his career as a fund manager specialising
in UK Equities. In addition to a BA in Economics,
he also has a Masters Degree in Finance from the
London Business School. Nick chairs the Investment
Committee and also sits on the Audit Committee.
As well as his work with The Land Trust, Nick is also a
member of the Investment Committee of the Nursing Nick Taylor-Buck Nick McLeod-Clarke Deborah Rees Sandra Kelly
and Midwifery Council.

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