{"id":69437,"date":"2016-04-08T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=981cf232b5af1c8488dd19f42ec040db"},"modified":"2016-04-08T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:49:53","slug":"press-release-mark-hodgkinson-appointed-interim-chief-executive-of-the-homes-and-communities-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69437","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Mark Hodgkinson appointed Interim Chief Executive of the Homes and Communities Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency (<abbr title=\"Homes and Communities Agency\">HCA<\/abbr>), Kevin Parry, today (8 April 2016) announced that Mark Hodgkinson, an experienced interim CEO, has been appointed as Interim Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mark has a strong commercial and financial background with extensive strategic and general management experience, particularly in organisations driving change in a growth environment. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Parry, Chairman of the <abbr title=\"Homes and Communities Agency\">HCA<\/abbr>, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted to have found someone of Mark\u2019s background to lead, on an interim basis, the <abbr title=\"Homes and Communities Agency\">HCA<\/abbr> through a period of growth and change. As the government\u2019s primary housing delivery agency, Mark will focus on structuring the Agency to be well organised to play its very major role in contributing to the dual ambitions of 1 million new homes and the doubling of first time buyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Andrew Rose has provided strong leadership in his time as Chief Executive particularly setting up the investment arm of the Agency. I\u2019d like to thank Andrew for his hard work over the last 3 years and wish him well in the future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Hodgkinson said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The <abbr title=\"Homes and Communities Agency\">HCA<\/abbr> has an enviable reputation built on strong commercial, social and regulatory expertise, and above all a track record of delivery. I am excited by the opportunity to lead the Agency through this period of growth and change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The recruitment of a permanent <abbr title=\"Homes and Communities Agency\">HCA<\/abbr> Chief Executive will commence in the coming months. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<p>The Homes and Communities Agency is the single, national housing and regeneration delivery agency for England, and is the Regulator of Social Housing Providers. Our vision is to: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>create opportunity for people to live in homes they can afford in places they want to live, by enabling local authorities and communities to deliver the ambition they have for their own areas<\/li>\n<li>undertake robust economic regulation that maintains lender confidence and protects the taxpayer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Homes and Communities Agency\u2019s regulatory role is enshrined in legislation through the Localism Act 2011, which along with new directions issued to the Regulator by the secretary of State in November 2011, and the Regulatory Framework sets out the way in which social housing providers are regulated.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hodgkinson\u2019s previous experience in the commercial sector includes: retail (Asda, Wyevale Garden Centres and HMV); healthcare (Brighterkind, Four Seasons); entertainment (EMI); and financial services (Virgin Money).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hodgkinson has been appointed as Interim Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}