Executive Team
Michael has been the Group Chief Executive of Broadland Housing Group since May 2003. He is also ex-officio member of the Board.
Michael has worked in the affordable housing sector since 1997, initially as the Development Director of Flagship Housing Group, followed by two years as the Executive Director for Business Strategy and Performance at Anglia Housing Group. Prior to 1997 Michael worked as a Chartered Surveyor in private practice in London, working for Richard Ellis and Savills.
Michael, a graduate in Urban Land Administration, from Portsmouth Polytechnic, is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and is also a Member of the Australasian Housing institute.
In April 2010 he was elected the Vice President of RICS and is now Senior Vice President of RICS – the global property profession with over 170,000 members working in over 140 countries. Michael will be President of RICS from July 2013 until July 2014.
In 2008 Michael undertook a three month secondment to the Victorian Government in Australia, where he was a special adviser to the Housing Minister with regard to increasing capacity in the community housing sector. Michael is a member of the CIH’s UK Housing Panel and is a Housing Spokesman for RICS. He was a member of the European Housing Forum in Brussels from 2000 until 2011 and was its President from 2002 until 2005.
Anna Simpson, oversees the financial affairs of the association and heads up both the Finance and Policy and Compliance teams. She is directly responsible for financial planning, treasury management and all finance and compliance issues. She also has financial responsibility for the Association's development and acquisition programme.
Having graduated in Engineering with Management Studies from Cambridge University, Anna qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse Coopers in London in 1992. She subsequently joined Norwich Union in 2000 and performed a number of business facing roles within Finance over three years.
Anna recently returned to live in Norfolk after living in Dublin for two years, where she undertook a voluntary role as Treasurer of the International Women's Club.
Andrew started his career within property and development in 1985 and has a combined experience in residential/ commercial property sales and development spanning 20 years.
In 2003 Andrew joined the Association with the position of Head of New Business which included looking at new ways to develop affordable housing. In early 2005 he took on the responsibility of the full development function within Broadland.
In July 2005 he was appointed Assistant Director (New Business and Asset Management) combining the development and estates functions of the Association overseeing the delivery of the new developments’ programme and also to ensure the delivery of the Association’s day-to-day repair service and planned programme of major repairs. In November 2006 he was appointed Director of Development to continue the business growth and delivery of new development, asset management and bring facilities management and services into the Directorate.
July 2009 has seen Andrew appointed to the new Group Executive Team , as Executive Director of Business Growth, the Directorate grows to include the Business Growth function for Broadland Meridian in the training and employment sector.
