Lindy Morgan
Chair of Board

Lindy believes that effective procurement is the foundation to delivering and maintaining quality affordable homes and buildings. Lindy is an experience non-executive director and as well as chairing Westworks, is also a non-executive director, and chair of Hastoe Housing Association. Lindy has over 30 years of housing experience, which has been based mainly around new homes development, as well as mixed use regeneration for both local authorities and housing associations.

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Ian Dorward
Chief Executive Officer

Ian is a trained solicitor and held legal, MD and C-suite roles before joining Westworks as CEO in 2023.

Under his leadership, the organisation is delivering an ambitious but achievable strategy, which will see enhanced services for both our members and suppliers alike.

Outside of the office, Ian is a proud reservist and serves as a Communications Officer in the Royal Navy.

Alec Pegam
Board Member

Alec is a professionally qualified leader with over 40 years’ accumulated management experience in the social housing sector, construction, and development. Alec currently works at Sovereign Housing, having previously spent twelve years at Aster Group operating at Director level. Alec has held several Board roles with a strong focus on governance, compliance, risk management, corporate strategy, and leading through innovation.

Katrina Michael
Board Member

Katrina is a qualified accountant and governance specialist. She has worked at Director level or above in housing associations and other not for profit housing-related organisations for over 25 years. During that time, she has overseen large procurement exercises and has managed in-house procurement teams. Katrina joined the Westworks Board as a representative of one of our customer housing associations, but is now an independent member of the Board, focussing on the financial and governance aspects of the Business.

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Michael O'Halloran
Board Member

Michael is an experienced programme manager and procurement specialist. He holds a Masters degree in Environment & Social Studies and has over 30 years experience working in the public sector to drive improvements to service delivery. In his role as Board Member, he aims to bring new procurement solutions into play that enable the delivery of services which make a real difference to communities.

Carol Murphy
Board Member

With a degree in Business Management, Carol has worked in Procurement for over 20 years. Carol currently heads up the procurement team at Southern Universities Procurement Consortium and has previous experience working in both private and public sector procurement. During her career, she has overseen a vast array of procurement projects, managed procurement teams and has been involved in and led on a number of procurement transformation projects.

Ben Cook
Board Member

Ben has a broad house building experience including leading Land, Planning, Technical and Commercial teams in the South West, spanning across nearly three decades. Ben also project managed the award-winning Zero Carbon project at Hanham Hall, Bristol for Barratt Homes, which was one of the country’s first truly zero carbon projects in partnership with Homes England (HE). Ben is now the Development Director (South) for The Guinness Partnerships and is also a Non-Executive Director at Brighter Places, where he has been able to use his experience to help deliver great homes and customer experience.