We have secured a team of high-calibre, talented individuals to join Pinnacle's board.

Perry is the co founder of UK Pacific Partners, the majority shareholder in Pinnacle Regeneration Group (PRG). He has spent 20 years in the property market, setting up and running a London-based property development and management business which formed a joint venture with FPD in 1997.

Perry was responsible for the organising of the merger of Pinnacle and JSS Holding and now provides strategic support for PRG.

Peter Rogers joined Pinnacle's board as Deputy Chair in April 2008. He is one of most influential individuals in UK local government, having been Chief Executive of Westminster City Council from 2002 to 2008. During this time, he authored the Rogers Review – a defining policy which set national enforcement priorities for local authorities. Prior to this role, Peter was Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Resources at the council. Before this, he carried out several roles at West Midlands Travel Group, culminating in his position as Commercial Director.

Peter is also a non-executive board member of the Housing Corporation, a position he has held since 2004.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, Institute of Personnel and Development, and the judging panel for the LGC awards for local government.

John joined Pinnacle in 1994 after 20 years in London local government. Having worked for the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Camden, Hackney and Harrow and mainly in Human Resources, he was recruited to use his knowledge to build a London-based social housing business as part of a multi sector housing management operation.

Since that time Pinnacle has focused on delivering the widest range of neighbourhood services to communities across the UK. John’s vision is to develop Pinnacle’s business model as a provider of service solutions for the wider public sector.

As the Group Finance Director, Michael has overall responsibility for PRG’s finance function. Michael qualified as an accountant with KPMG, and began his career with a number of property and service-related companies. He joined Whitbread as Head of Audit and as Finance Director of Thresher he led the acquisition of the Peter Dominic Group.

He has also served as Finance Director for Brightreasons restaurants and as Vice President, Finance at Time Warner where he was responsible for finance at CNN and Cartoon Network Europe. Prior to joining PRG in 2006, Michael was Finance Director at DIY retailers Wickes.

Connie has extensive experience within the private sector having spent over 20 years in commodity trading within the financial services industry. She has worked for S&W Berisford, where she was responsible for the preparation of the accounts for their International coffee trading division.

After this, she joined Louis Dreyfus, a French organisation specialising in the worldwide processing, trading and merchandising of various agricultural and energy commodities. Following this, she worked with Virgin Net - internet services, where she was responsible for managing their ISP offering which was run from Madeira. She joined Pinnacle in 2006 as the firm’s Finance Director. Connie is also a non-executive director on the board of the Whipps Cross University Hospital Trust.

Matthew Taylor -

Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement
of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

Matthew Taylor became Chief Executive of the RSA in November 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister.

Matthew was appointed to the Labour Party in 1994 to establish Labour’s rebuttal operation. His activities before the Labour Party included being a county councillor, a parliamentary candidate, a university research fellow and the director of a unit monitoring policy in the health service. Until December 1998, Matthew was Assistant General Secretary for the Labour Party. During the 1997 General Election he was Labour’s Director of Policy and a member of the Party’s central election strategy team.

He was the Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research between 1999 and 2003, Britain’s leading centre left think tank. During that time, the Institute tripled in size to become the largest independent public policy think tank in Europe.

He has written numerous articles, frequently appears on television and co-authored a book ‘What are children for?’ with his father, Laurie Taylor.

Dr Wendy Thomson, CBE, has a distinguished career in public services in the UK before joining McGill University in June 2005 as Professor and Director of the School of Social Policy. Currently she is involved in governance and public service reform in Canada and internationally, advising government and speaking at conferences. She serves on the Board of the Agence de Santé et Services Sociaux de Montréal, and the Board of the McGill University Health Centre.

Until May 2005, she was working in 10 Downing Street as Tony Blair’s Chief Adviser on Public Service Reform. She was previously Director of the Audit Commission in the UK (responsible for inspection of local government services across England and Wales), and Chief Executive of the London Borough of Newham. Wendy was born in Montreal and graduated from McGill.

Richard Reynolds was a Barratt Homes Ltd Managing Director from 1983-2006.

Richard established the Barratt East London division in 1983, building it into one of the Barratt Group’s two key ‘superdivisions’ and a top 20 UK housebuilder in its own right. As a leading player in London Docklands, he was more recently tasked to set up a new Barratt Thames Gateway division, where he again took the post of Managing Director. In both capacities, he was on the board of the Barratt regional holding company for London and the Thames Gateway.

Prior to his appointment with Barratt he held senior positions with Alfred McAlpine, Croudace and Trafalgar House.

Until recently, he was on the Board of the Stratford Development Partnership, which played a key role in the transformation of the area as the 2012 Olympics approach, and remains a Trustee. Richard also took a leading role in the creation of Discover, a children’s education activity centre in Stratford where he remains a Patron. He was a member of Newham Council’s Civic Partnership, served on the Mayor’s Advisory Board and is a member of Mayor Livingstone’s London Thames Gateway RSL Housing Delivery Group. Richard is also Non-Executive Director of Whipps Cross University Hospital Trust and the Aldwyck Housing Group.

Barry Simons has had extensive experience working within the housing sector. Barry has a planning and surveying background working in both private and public sectors during the early part of his career. He then changed direction to become Assistant Director of Housing for Haringey and then became Director of Housing for the London Borough of Brent in 1982 at the age of 35. Following this, Barry spent nine years as the Director of Housing for the London Borough of Newham and in 1992 he joined the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham again as its Director of Housing.

During his time as Director of Housing he served on many local and central government bodies dealing with homelessness, housing finance and housing regeneration.

Since leaving the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 2000, he has worked as a consultant with a range of housing associations, developers and local authorities. He previously sat on the boards of Ujima Housing Association, High Weald Housing Association, and Centrepoint, a leading charity in the UK helping homeless and socially excluded young people to rebuild their lives. Barry is now the Chair of Vision Care, a charity delivering eye care support to homeless people.