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Ruth Cooke joins board of large developer
Ruth Cooke, the former chief executive of Clarion Group, has landed a role on the board of one of the UK’s largest land and property regeneration companies.
Ms Cooke, who had a brief stint as chief executive of the country’s largest association last year, has joined Harworth Group as a non-executive director.
Harworth owns around 21,500 acres on around 140 sites mainly in the North of England and the Midlands, with gross development value estimated at £2.4bn.
Her appointment comes just two weeks after she was drafted in as the interim chief executive of the 11,000-home association GreenSquare. Ms Cooke was hired by GreenSquare following the departure of former boss Howard Toplis.
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She will join Harworth on 1 April and will become part of the board’s audit committee.
Ms Cooke became chief executive of 125,000-home Clarion Housing Group in April last year.
However, that role ended in September when she took an extended period of leave and resigned in October.
Prior to her Clarion role, Ms Cooke was finance director and then chief executive of Midland Heart. Ms Cooke is also currently chair of Midlands-based housing association Connexus.
Alastair Lyons, chair of Harworth, said: “I am delighted to have Ruth joining our board. Their appointment further develops the breadth of composition and depth of commercial and sectoral experience of our board, and I look forward to their wise counsel as Harworth continues to execute its strategy of focussed growth.”
