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3 Corporate Governance Report

THE ANCHOR BOARD

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and non-executive director. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has an MSc in Finance

1. Christopher Kemball Independent Non-Executive Chair of the Board, Chair of the Nominations Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee Christopher joined the Anchor Board in 2019. He is currently Chair of St. Elizabeth's Centre, an independent charitable trust which supports vulnerable children, young people and adults with epilepsy and other complex medical conditions and Non-Executive Director and founder shareholder of Wren Investment Office Limited, a multi-family office wealth adviser. He is also a Trustee of St. Joseph's Society, a charity which owns and manages 31 almshouses in West London He has served as a non-executive director on the boards of, and chaired, several publicly listed and private equity owned companies in the financial, business services and healthcare sectors. Prior to that he worked in the United States and Europe as a senior M&A and corporate finance advisor. Christopher served with the British Army for seven years after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA Hons in Law. 2. Fred Angole Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Asset Investment & Development Committee Fred joined Anchor as a Board member in September 2023. He is currently a non-executive board member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Notting Hill Genesis Housing Association. He is also Finance Director and Deputy Chief Executive of YMCA St. Paul’s Group, a supported housing provider that specialises in providing accommodation and wellbeing services to vulnerable young Londoners. He was previously Director of Corporate Services at Homes for Haringey and a trustee of Black Cultural Archives. Fred is a qualified accountant with over 30 years’ experience in the social housing sector, as a regulator, finance executive

and Investment. 3. Nicola Bruce

Senior Independent Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee and Asset Investment & Development Committee Nicola is currently a Non-Executive Director and Remuneration Committee Chair at Stelrad plc, MJ Gleeson plc and Ibstock plc. She is also a Non- Executive Director for OFWAT, the economic regulator for the water sector in England and Wales. Nicola was previously a Partner at the strategy consultancy Monitor Group. Prior to this she worked as an economist for Coopers & Lybrand, leading economic development and regeneration strategies for UK regions and was subsequently Group Director of Strategy at De La Rue plc. She is a Chartered Management Accountant. Nicola has an MA (PPE) from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. 4. Elizabeth Froude Independent Non-Executive and Chair of the Asset Investment & Development Committee

Elizabeth joined the Anchor Board in September 2023. She is currently Group Chief Executive at Platform Housing Group, one of the largest associations in the Midlands. Elizabeth has been involved in the housing sector for almost 20 years having worked for large and complex organisations in several geographical areas of England. Prior to working in housing she worked for several large FTSE organisations both in the UK, USA and across Europe in roles particularly focussed in change and performance improvement, often in M&A environments.

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