RCS - EMH Treasury plc - New Chief Executive for emh Group
02/10/2025 12:15
For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: https://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20251002:nRSB8449Ba&default-theme=true RNS Number : 8449B EMH Treasury plc 02 October 2025 News release 2 October, 2025 New Group Chief Executive Appointed at emh East Midlands-based housing provider emh has appointed Charley Gibbons as its new chief executive. Mr Gibbons brings to the role a blend of emh knowledge from his role as its executive director of housing and communities, as well as an external perspective and experience from over 10 years in housing. Over the last year Charley has spearheaded emh's customer experience work, including driving an increase in customer satisfaction and transformation of the complaints and customer voice offer. Prior to joining emh in 2024, Mr Gibbons held the role of director of customer experience at Orbit Housing. In keeping with his work to contribute to social equality, he has also served as Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, Coventry and led national campaigns to tackle child and fuel poverty. The appointment follows the retirement of Chan Kataria, OBE who led emh for 21 years. Mr Kataria will remain in post until later in 2025 when he is set to take up a Non-Executive Director role on the Board of the Regulator of Social Housing. The appointment follows an open and extensive recruitment process which began after the announcement of Mr Kataria's retirement in late June this year. Professor David Russell, chair of emh, said: "As a board, we are delighted with Charley's appointment and have every confidence he will build on the strong legacy of his predecessors. His grounded social ethos combined with commercial acumen will see emh continue to flourish under his leadership. We look forward to working with him and welcoming him to his new position. "On behalf of the board, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Chan for leaving the organisation in a strong and stable position and for leaving such an inspiring legacy. We know he will continue to champion customers and communities in his new role as a board member of the Regulator of Social Housing and wish him the very best of luck." Mr Gibbons said: "With emh only having 3 chief executives in its close to 80-year history, I know I'm stepping into some very values-driven and pioneering shoes. Since joining emh 12 months ago, there has been a strong values alignment, and this new role offers even more opportunity for me to ensure every interaction focuses on what matters most to our customers. "With a strong executive team around me, exceptional staff and an involved resident body who are now influencing our work at every level, I'm excited about what the next chapter will hold. Our existing strong joint ambitions of achieving C1, of an ever-improving customer experience and partnership work to tackle issues of inequality will remain my immediate priorities once in post, and in the interim I'm keen to ensure I maximise the handover period to ensure we build on Chan's incredible legacy." For further information, please contact Pritti Allen, Head of Communications at emh 07827 984226 or email pritti.allen@emh.co.uk (mailto:pritti.allen@emh.co.uk) Notes to editors: · Emh group provides more than 21,000 homes across the East Midlands. · Its mission is to provide housing and care to improve opportunities for people. · Emh is a Homes England Strategic Partner and aims to deliver around 500 homes a year to include homes for social rent, and shared ownership. It is committed to developing high quality extra independent living schemes to meet the growing need in the region. This information is provided by Reach, the non-regulatory press release distribution service of RNS, part of the London Stock Exchange. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com) or visit www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/) . RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy) . END NRAEAEEAEFESFFA