Perry Lloyd (Chair) - Director of Pinnacle Regeneration Group
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.
John Swinney - Chief Executive, Pinnacle
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.
Michael Penny - Group Finance Director, Pinnacle Regeneration Group
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 Mitchell-Innes - Pinnacle's Finance Director
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 managed the East African coffee trading sector.
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.
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 - Director of School of Social Policy, McGill University, Montreal, QC
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.
Richard Reynolds - Former Managing Director of Barratt East London & Barratt Thames Gateway
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.