Cobalt Housing has appointed Louise Davies as Director of Development and Growth, and Sequoia Chapman as Director of Transformation and ICT, to lead its ambitious growth and transformation plans.
Louise Davies is currently the Managing Director of Sandway Homes, and has led on schemes for open market sale, working with Sefton Council and the Liverpool City Region to bring redundant brownfield land back into use to support housing supply within the Borough.
Her development career spans over 20 years, having led on some of the largest regeneration projects within the Liverpool City Region, as well as the delivery of significant development programmes for registered providers.
Louise joins us in early March, and brings with her a breadth of knowledge and experience to support Cobalt’s development ambitions to build over 1000 new homes by 2030.
Louise said:
“I am delighted to have been appointed as Director of Growth and Development and look forward to joining Claire and the team in March. It’s really exciting to be joining Cobalt for such a unique opportunity to be part of shaping their development and regeneration priorities moving forward. They have a robust business plan with commitment to expanding their development offer to provide housing options across Liverpool City Region alongside significant regeneration ambitions, working in partnership with local authorities, developers and communities.”
Sequoia Chapman will be joining us in January from The Christie NHS Foundation Trust where she works as Deputy Director of Strategy. Whilst at The Christie she developed the organisation’s service strategies, delivered a wide-ranging portfolio of innovation and transformation programmes and led on a range of digital system implementations which delivered real change for patients and staff.
Sequoia said:
“I am thrilled to be joining Cobalt as Director of Transformation and ICT. I have strong family connections to the local area and am delighted to be offered the opportunity to lead a digital and organisational transformation programme that will bring enormous improvements to Cobalt and the communities we serve. This is an incredibly exciting time for Cobalt as we make the investments in our systems and people which will enable us to deliver real change for our tenants and I’m delighted to be able to lead on this work for the organisation”
Claire Griffiths, Chief Executive at Cobalt Housing said on the appointments:
“We are delighted to have appointed Louise and Sequoia, whose drive and talent will complement Cobalt’s leadership team. They will play a pivotal role during an exciting time for Cobalt, as we redesign our offer to our customers and communities and launch a new corporate plan.”
