4 The candidate
Julian Ashby
12. Julian Ashby[9]
is Deputy Chair of the Tenant Services Authority. He is Chair
of the Institute for Voluntary Action Research and of two 'not
for profit special purpose vehicles'[10]
which have raised funds for social housing organisations. He is
also Chair of the Financial Information Company that publishes
a specialist housing journal. Previously he was co-founder and
Managing Director of HACAS (later called HACAS Chapman Hendy).
This was a social housing sector consultancy that became a major
subsidiary within Tribal Group PLC in 2004.
13. Mr Ashby entered the social housing sector in
1974 following a career in international merchant banking. He
has been Chief Executive and Chair of many associations. In his
consultancy role he has specialised in trouble-shooting, governance,
mergers, strategy reviews, organisation and structure, risk management
and personnel issues. He has conducted four Statutory Inquiries.
Two of these have been for the Housing Corporation, one for Tai
Cymru and one for Communities Scotland. He has also undertaken
a range of other inquiries, reviews and investigations.
14. In 2007 Mr Ashby was the independent social housing
advisor to the Cave Review of social housing regulation. He is
the author of many publications on governance and risk management.
He was Secretary to the housing sector's governance inquiry and
was Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics.
15. A copy of Mr Ashby's full CV can be found at
Annex A in the Appendix to this report.
9 This chapter draws upon the summary profile of Mr
Ashby, published at Annex A in the Appendix to this report. Back
10
See Q14, which provides details of the organisations. Back
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