The complementary expertise of our Leadership Team and Advisory Panel enables us to take a holistic approach to understanding what people and communities need to thrive.

Leadership Team

We are proud of our dedicated and dynamic team, who are not only experts in their fields but committed to delivering meaningful social impact

Yashar Turgut is a Fellow of the ICAEW with over 40 years of executive leadership and two decades of non-executive governance experience across the housing and social infrastructure sectors. He has experience as a non-executive director of a national housing organisation, contributing to finance, audit, commercial, and pension governance. He also spent nearly a decade as chair of a property services company, overseeing maintenance delivery for housing association partners.
Yashar is currently the chair of One Manchester (a registered provider that owns and manages over 12,000 homes), a position he has held for over four years. In this role, he combines deep strategic expertise with a strong commitment to social value and inclusive community development. His leadership is defined by a focus on service improvement, organisational growth, and community impact.

Léann is a former housing association Chief Executive, a NED/Chair on two housing boards and a board advisor for other organisations in the sector. She has over 20 years’ experience across social housing, care and support services and manufacturing businesses. She has supported and led organisations to strengthen governance, culture and performance, while maintaining a clear focus on social impact and customer experience.
Her background includes leading large and complex organisations through transformation and organisational change, rebuilding partnership and culture, and delivering sustainable performance improvement. Léann brings deep insight into the priorities and realities facing social housing providers and local authority partners, alongside a collaborative and pragmatic style.
She is a professionally qualified executive coach and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner, and was named Housing Woman of the Year in 2024 in recognition of her work in mentoring and supporting emerging leaders across the sector.

Don McLure is a CIPFA-qualified public accountant with over 40 years of senior leadership experience in local government finance and corporate services. He has held Management Team roles including Strategic Director of Resources at Durham County Council and Corporate Director of Resources at Derby City Council. He also worked for Hull City Council and Milton Keynes in similar roles as an Interim.
His career has involved many leading major capital investment programmes including an Arms’ Length Management Organisations (ALMO) for council housing in Derby and a stock transfer in County Durham.
In recent years, he has also dedicated significant time to voluntary and charitable work.

Robin is dedicated to advancing the pivotal role of genuinely responsible private capital to amplify the valuable work of public sector partners and rebalance equality of opportunity across the UK. An advocate and keen adopter of an open architecture approach, Robin is focussed on working closely with the public sector to crowd in private expertise and balance sheets to collaboratively tackle head-on the challenges seen across the social infrastructure space.
With over 17 years across international finance, Robin’s most recent role saw successful development of social infrastructure financing products in the UK and EEA, with a particular focus on social and affordable housing. His prior experience involved oversight & development of a large asset-backed issuance platform, structuring financing for government entities and strategic corporations alongside multilateral development banks (the World Bank, International Bank of Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, African Trade Insurance Agency). Robin has a core focus on establishing robust risk and control frameworks to deliver successful business models and has led on, and contributed, to development and implementation of business strategy, business creation, growth and product development.

Saba Tahzib is a former senior civil servant with extensive experience of working on housing, regional growth and investment in central government. He has spent over a decade designing and delivering complex, innovative policies and multibillion pound housing and local economic growth programmes.
Most recently at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Saba developed particular expertise in building multi-disciplinary teams that worked in partnership with local government and mayoral combined authorities to address shared challenges that required bringing together and driving action across a wide range of stakeholders. His work focused initially on housing policy, strategy and delivery to more recently designing interventions to support regeneration and economic growth.
The core of Saba's work is focused on developing new models of partnership that empower public and private sector partners to create social impact.

Joel Manley is an experienced management consultant, motivated by a commitment to help tackle the UK’s housing crisis through innovative and scalable solutions. He has a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams, and of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
Before co-founding the Community Foundations platform, Joel spent 17 years advising global investment banks, asset managers, and private wealth clients across Europe and Asia. His work focused on business transformation, trading COO functions, and regulatory change, where he successfully led international programmes on LIBOR transition, Brexit readiness, and margin reform.
Drawing on this background, Joel brings a deep understanding of operational excellence, strategic delivery, and a commitment to delivering value for clients.
Past clients include Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, Société Générale, HSBC, UBS, Citi, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Chris Neill is a property and housing professional with extensive experience across residential development, estate management, and social housing governance. He began his career at Knight Frank, becoming Head of Residential Development for the Northwest, where he advised major developers on regeneration projects across Manchester and Liverpool. He later founded Base Estate Management, growing it to manage over 7,500 units and £12 million in annual service charge funds before leading its successful acquisition. As Chair of Arcon Housing, he oversaw a major modernisation programme and was instrumental in its strategic merger with Bolton at Home, a 20,000-home registered provider.

Liam Nunn brings 15 years of experience delivering large-scale business development and regulatory initiatives across Tier 1 financial institutions, complemented by a strong track record of advising the real estate sector across the Midlands.
After a successful period with Halifax and Lloyds Banking Group, where he focused on lending to small and medium-sized businesses, Liam moved into project management and business transformation. He has since led strategic initiatives across global banks and product teams, with particular focus on regulatory change, client engagement, and operational effectiveness.
His project portfolio spans IBOR remediation, CRD VI, and the FCA’s review of RBS’s Global Restructuring Group, alongside extensive work with real estate businesses to shape investment and funding strategies.
Now serving as a Non-Executive Director, Liam combines financial expertise with a passion for addressing the UK’s housing needs. He is committed to supporting the growth of sustainable, community-focused platforms that make a meaningful difference in the housing sector.

The Advisory Panel

Our delivery excellence is underpinned by the expertise and dedication of our Advisory Panel - a cross-sector collaboration of experts and organisations committed to developing housing solutions that generate lasting, positive social impact today and for generations to come.