How we work

Terry Stacey MBE

Terry Stacy MBE JP, a tenant in Islington, north London and has over 20 years’ experience of the housing sector, holding a number of senior roles in both housing associations and local authorities. He has been a local authority Councillor for over 16 years and former Council Leader at LB Islington. He is currently Head of the Liberal Democrat Office at the Local Government Association.

Emma Peters

Emma is a town planner by profession, with a background in local government. Previous roles include various director and strategic director positions in boroughs including the London Borough of Lewisham, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the London Borough of Croydon, with responsibility not just for planning but also for economic development, housing delivery and strategic asset management.

Emma has also held a number of interim strategic director positions for local authorities across the UK. Since 2011 Emma has worked as a consultant, and is currently a Director of Inner Circle Consulting Ltd, where particular areas of interest and expertise include placemaking, affordable housing delivery, estate regeneration and creating employment opportunities through housing delivery and housing retrofit. Emma is also an experienced mentor and coach, working principally with local authority clients.

David Marshall

David is a specialist in all aspects of corporate finance, M&A and private equity. He led his first cross-border, leveraged MBO in 1983 and over the following years successfully led and completed several hundred transactions in the UK, Europe, South-East Asia and the US. He is the managing partner of Griffon Capital, his corporate finance advisory company.

Richard Macmillan

Richard is currently General Counsel and Company Secretary at Moorfields Eye Hospital. His practice is broad, but focuses on general commercial, employment, governance, and Intellectual Property matters.

He leads a team of lawyers and governance experts and in particular is leading the in-house legal team on a major construction project as Moorfields relocates from City Road to St Pancras in London. Richard has a passion for housing and is Vice-Chair of akt, a national youth homelessness charity, which seeks to provide safe homes for LGBT youth who are homeless or at risk of being so. He has also served on One Housing Group's Customer Services Committee and chaired a Residents’ Panel, ensuring tenants' voices were heard at board level.

Gary Porter, Lord Porter of Spalding CBE

Gary Porter was elected to South Holland District Council in 2001, re-elected in 2003 and elected Leader of South Holland. A bricklayer by trade, Gary has been Chairman of the District Councils' Network, the LGA Environment and Housing Board. He chaired the LGA 2015-2019. In 2013 he was awarded a CBE for services to Local Government and was made a life peer in the 2015 dissolution peerages list, taking the title of Baron Porter of Spalding.

Steve Collins

Steve has worked for more than 25 years in both public and private housing and development sectors. He is the Rentplus-UK Chief Executive, he has held senior roles at the Homes and Communities Agency (Home England) where he was responsible for the delivery of more than 42 government programmes including the affordable homes programme for the East of England. The programmes were aimed at accelerating the delivery of affordable and market housing and public sector land across the East and South-East of England. He has also held several non-executive positions at regeneration and development companies including the Cambridgeshire Horizons, Luton Gateway, Renaissance Bedford and the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation.

Carmela Spain

Carmela joined the team in June 2022 as the Housing Allocations Officer. Previously she worked for Catalyst Housing, initially as a Housing Officer and then as an Area Manager. Having recently moved to the Northamptonshire area (that she loves), Carmela spends time taking long walks with her dog and considers herself a reasonably good chef but claims she’s rubbish at making cakes.

Gareth Fitzpatrick

Gareth joined the team in November 2017. He is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Institute of Residential Property Management. He has worked as a Regional Manager for a large national Housing Association developing supported housing across the UK and as a Senior Manager for several Housing Associations delivering quality services in tenancy management, leasehold services, allocations, shared ownership, rent to buy, and property sales. He also enjoys tinkering with cars and helps run a European Banger Rally to raise money for charity.

Lauren Potts

Lauren has joined the team as a Housing Officer. She has experience in housing allocations and repairs. She previously worked for one of our partners, Greatwell Homes as well as a major house builder, handling defects and customer care. Lauren is based at our Milton Keynes office.

Stephanie Wiltshire

Stephanie joined Rentplus in early August 2023 as Housing Operations Coordinator.Based at our Plymouth office, Steph has a wealth of experience working with new and established companies, and pre-covid had her own Sales and Marketing company. She supports the Rentplus Operations team to accommodate the continued expansion of the business and rapid growth of Rentplus Homes Ltd. Steph lives in a beautiful Cornwall village with her dog, and takes part in her local athletics and rowing club whilst being a personal trainer in her spare time.

Olivia Ellis

Olivia Ellis (Liv) joined Rentplus as a Housing Officer in the Housing Operations Team in November 2022. She has previous experience of working with Rentplus whilst at Plymouth Block Management. Before Covid, Liv managed corporate hospitality and events at Plymouth Albion Rugby Club. Liv studied Events Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University and now lives in rural Devon and is a keen horse rider, follower of Rugby and loves cooking for family and friends.