Over 40 years’ experience supporting people in the housing market
Meet Our Team
What we believe in
There are various things that we believe in and are important to us. These permeate everything we do, how we work with our partners, how we look after our residents as well as our own people.
- Helping vulnerable people so they become more independent and rely less on local authorities
- Supporting not judging – everyone deserves a safe and secure place to live
- Listening to local authorities to provide a response that works for you
- Being proactive, doing things well and offering more
- Looking after our residents and looking after you
- Working as a partner that offers more than a roof
Meet Marc
Marc Goodkind founded The Housing Network in 2014 as a specialist social housing provider after 15 years in the residential property sector. Prior to establishing The Housing Network, he ran his own residential agency and also he worked within another social housing provider.
Marc brings a wealth of experience in running property businesses and innovating in the sector.
Meet Gary
Gary Teper joined The Housing Network in 2019 after 22 years in the City, first as a Property Solicitor and then in the Investment Management sector, including PLC Director at Charles Stanley Group PLC, one of the largest listed investment management companies in the UK.
Gary was also a Non-Executive Director/Trustee of a leading professional charitable institute which has more than 45,000 members in 116 countries.
Meet Mark
Mark Turner joined The Housing Network in 2023 as our Chief Operating Officer bringing with him a wealth of experience and an impressive track record in leading and transforming organizations to achieve outstanding results, most recently with One YMCA.
Mark has experience working with a Registered Provider in the Midlands and extensive experience working in the homelessness space.
Meet Lisa
Lisa Goldsmith joined our team in 2022 as Director of People, bringing with her over 20 years of diverse experience across multiple sectors in the People and Culture field. Lisa is passionate about building inclusive, high-performing workplaces where people thrive, and her focus at THN is on fostering a positive employee experience and embedding a wellbeing culture that drives productivity, creativity, innovation, and sustainable growth.
Throughout her career, Lisa has led initiatives in organisational culture transformation, workplace wellbeing, leadership development, and strategic workforce planning. She is highly skilled in stakeholder engagement, change management, employee relations, and designing impactful programs that enhance engagement and support professional and personal growth.
Lisa believes that a strong, values-driven culture is the foundation of any successful organisation. Her work is grounded in authenticity, empathy, and a deep commitment to creating environments where people feel seen, supported, and empowered to do their best work.
Meet Andrew
Andrew Grimditch joined The Housing Network in 2025 as Chief Financial Officer. Andrew is a chartered accountant who has worked across a variety of sectors in his career and in businesses that are privately owned, backed by private equity and listed. Andrew brings with him senior finance experience including board and other leadership positions, business development and M&A transactions.
In a number of roles Andrew has built and developed high performing finance functions to deliver to the needs of growing businesses. His focus has always been on the team ensuring they are set up to efficiently run all key finance processes including reporting, control, treasury, and commercial activities. Andrew is of the view that a strong finance team should be integral to the strategic decisions made by an organisation.
Meet Sukhvinder
Sukhvinder Rai, recently joined as the Director of Housing and Support after 20 years in local government working across Housing, Adult Social Care and Corporate Policy.
Sukhvinder is known for enacting systems change, to help reduce social cost and public spend. Her expertise in holistic commissioning and strategic housing has resulted in improved health and wellbeing outcomes for people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage.
Her experience also extends to the charitable sector where she was Vice-Chair on the Board of Trustees for Herts Young Homeless.
Meet Jonathan
Jonathan Vellacott joined The Housing Network in January 2025 as our Director of Specialist Services and has over 20 years’ experience in the criminal justice system, working in both the Ministry of Justice and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
Jonathan has a substantial track record of demonstrating the resilience and ambition required to deliver high quality results, improve performance and influence best practice across many areas.
Meet Mark
Mark joined The Housing Network in March 2025 as our Director of Operations. Following a commissioned officer career in the RAF, Mark focused on multi-site property management, consultancy and business change. He has held senior roles developing and managing complex and mixed use portfolios across the UK and Europe for companies including Xerox, Sony BP Europe, QinetiQ, Williams Lea, Broadgate Estates and Savills.
With 25 years+ experience of large, complex operational estates .and the provision of the operational services to mobilise and support these schemes, he brings a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to help further support The Housing Network in our strategic and operational goals.
“I am passionate about delivering safe, quality homes for those who have been forgotten”
Marc Goodkind
“We want to partner with local authorities and other organisations to provide professional and innovative solutions to the housing crisis”
Gary Teper
“Our people and our values are at the core of all we do. Everyday I am proud of the efforts each and everyone of our colleagues go to in the quest to provide “more than a roof”
Lisa Goldsmith, Director of People
Join us
We’re always on the look-out for great people to join our team. Even when we’re not actively recruiting, we’re happy to hear from you if you think you have relevant experience and are passionate about what we do.
Please send your CV to
recruitment@thn.co.uk
