Our leadership team

Selina has led Magna Housing for six years, where she has championed innovative solutions for affordable housing across the South West. As the Chief Executive, she has spearheaded initiatives that prioritise community well-being, sustainability, inclusivity and growth.

Passion and purpose:

Advocacy for affordable housing: Selina’s unwavering commitment to affordable housing has made her a respected voice in the industry. She actively collaborates with stakeholders to address housing challenges.

Regional leadership: As the Chair of the National Housing Federation’s South West Leadership Forum, Selina plays a pivotal role in shaping housing policies and strategies in the region.

Collaboration for impact: Selina is also a dedicated member of Homes for the South West, a collaboration of the 12 largest developing housing associations in the region, helping to shape national housing policy and driving positive change.

Dave joined us in October 2024. He brings more than 25 years’ experience of executive leadership and consultancy roles across the public and not-for-profit sectors. Based in Torbay, Dave has a breadth of experience spanning strategy and business development, financial strategy, organisational development and improvement, people development and coaching and continuous quality improvement. With extensive experience in the health and care sector, he’s led and advised many organisations in turnaround and improvement covering strategy, governance, risk and assurance.

Dave has strategic oversight of all aspects of Magna’s financial management as well as our procurement, governance, legal and risk functions. He is also responsible for Magna’s compliance with the Regulator of Social Housing Regulatory Standards. His role and the teams he leads is vital in making sure we have strong and secure financial and governance arrangements in place to enable us to realise our ambitious vision.

Outside of work, he has a passion for travel, music, sport and fitness and spent many years supporting the development of young people in the community as an FA qualified football coach.

Paul joined Magna in 2017 to restart our ambitions to provide new affordable homes to rent and buy. In addition to Paul’s role at Magna he is supported by the organisation in his Dorset LEP Board position and as Chair of the Constructing Excellence South West Construction Clients Group. Having worked on the front line of housing management, for house builders and construction companies focused on both new build and repairs and maintenance into the housing sector. These insights have enabled Magna to realise the business case to expanding our routes into delivering homes by using both the best in traditional construction alongside our new capability that sees us now manufacturing consistently high quality homes to ever higher environmental standards.

Ami joined Magna in 2021 and is responsible for the functions who are building the organisational capabilities that will enable us to deliver our strategy and mission. Ami has previously worked for the National Trust, Sky and Rolls-Royce in a range of people transformation roles, shaping cultures and creating great places to work. Ami is also the Chair of Andrews Charitable Trust, tackling the cycle of deprivation and multiple disadvantage, through a property lens, exploring approaches which address the links between housing and poverty.

Joanne joined Magna in January 2022, bringing a wealth of experience from within and outside of the housing sector. Joanne leads on all customer facing activities and holds responsibility for the strategic priorities relating to customer experience. Joanne is passionate about creating great places to live, providing excellent services, and using technology to create a holistic approach to housing.

Christine joined Magna in 2002. Christine is responsible for the management of our rented and leasehold homes and our ASB service as well as our income management and lettings services. Christine brings a broad range of housing experience to Magna in homelessness, environmental health and public and private sector regeneration. Before joining Magna, Christine served on the board of a local housing association and has gained customer service experience in both retail and the public sector.

Suzanne joined Magna in 2013 and was appointed Head of HR in 2014. Suzanne has worked in the HR field since 2002, gaining experience in a wide range of companies and sectors before joining the housing world with Magna. Magna seems the perfect fit for Suzanne as outside of work she loves renovation and all things houses.

Ian joined Magna in April 2019. He is a qualified accountant and has held senior finance positions in both the commercial and public sectors. Ian has spent 14 of the past 16 years inside the housing sector. Outside of work Ian also commits time to the local community, working on the committee at Bournemouth Athletic Club and as a race director for a 10 mile running event.

Ian joined Magna in November 2019. He started working in IT for Housing in 2014 after a 20+ year career leading a national IT team within the financial services industry. His experience covers migrating systems and services to the Cloud, Cyber security and Disaster Recovery, as well as implementing Data Governance structures. He also has extensive experience of mergers and acquisitions, most recently leading the combined IT Teams through the merger which formed LiveWest.

Alice Joined Magna in June 2021 and is the Head of Customer Experience and Home Services. She has a background in IT service delivery, and has previously built and lead a customer service team for a well-known retail brand. Alice is customer obsessed and has a wealth of knowledge in improving customer journeys and increasing customer satisfaction. She heads up many of the operational areas within Magna, looking after response repairs, the customer contact centre, estates services and Customer Involvement, and as part of our brilliant basics strategy, she will work with every department across Magna to ensure we are putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

Stephanie Lloyd-Foxe is Head of Building Safety and Compliance at Magna Housing where she has established a new team, systems and processes to respond to the challenges of the new building safety regime, championing a safety culture.

Stephanie is also an Executive Director of the National Housing Maintenance Forum, an enterprise advisor working within the Dorset Careers and Enterprise Network advising on skills for future employment, a member of the Proptech Innovation Network (PIN) advisory board and is an advocate for innovation and the adoption of new technologies in the sector.

Stephanie has over 20 years' experience working in construction and housing in a variety of senior technical roles.

Leroy Bunbury is our Head of Governance, Legal and Risk.

Max joined Magna in November 2022 in the new role of Head of Procurement. Max has worked in both public and private sectors previously, including a housing association in Bournemouth. Max has worked in procurement for ten years and has experience in category management, contract and supplier management and procurement transformation. Max will help Magna to achieve value for money in the procurement of goods and services.

In a newly created role for Magna, Carolyn joined us January 2023 and works alongside our Leadership Team to consider and recommend how we will invest £800m over our 30-year business plan.

Carolyn brings extensive experience as a strategic leader across the public and charity sectors, most recently as Assistant Director of Operations at the RSPCA, having also held senior roles at the RNLI, Public Health England and the NHS.

Her role includes delivering our capital programme of planned, cyclical and retrofit works. Carolyn will make recommendations on all aspects of our Supply and Investment strategy through the full life cycle of the homes we build and manage.

Oliver joined Magna in March 2023, from digital marketing agency Mediaworks where he served as the managing partner of its Manchester division, leading its teams and strategy across the north-west of England. Prior to Mediaworks, he served as Communications and Marketing Director and part of the senior leadership team at 9,000-home housing association Trafford Trust, having previously ran his own independent consultancy for over six years.

In a newly created role for Magna, Oliver will be the strategic lead for developing its digital roadmap and brand, including customer- and colleague-facing digital products and services, communications, marketing, and insights.

David Hebden joined Magna as our new Head of Change Capability in November 2023. He comes from a background in telecommunications, in which he spent 26 years.

Neo joined Magna in October 2024 in the newly created role of Head of Growth.

Neo brings extensive investment experience in the public and private sectors and will seek out innovative and collaborative funding opportunities to help Magna build more affordable homes across its communities.