Chris’ focus is on business growth, including leading on strategic partnerships with Homes England, local authorities, health organisations, universities, the community and voluntary sector. Chris is responsible for identifying and developing bids and secure new business ventures, contracts, partnerships and commissioned/contracted services and work with partners to create housing and service solutions for their housing, support and care needs. This team leads on the physical shaping of neighbourhoods and optimisation of our services and products around our existing homes, new homes and neighbourhoods including community development / social regeneration.

Chris is a former board member of the Northern Housing Consortium and a member of the Health and Wellbeing Board in Middlesbrough. She is a director of the arcc consortium, a company set up to run the Transforming Rehabilitation contract on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.