Pocket Living founding partner and finance director Paul Harbard is to retire from the company at the beginning of 2019.
He will be replaced by Paul Rickard (pictured), who has held a number of senior finance roles in the housing association sphere, having worked at Circle, Paragon Community Housing and most recently One Housing, where he was responsible for securing more than £300m in financing packages through private placements, development finance and other loan structures.
Harbard said: “It is with mixed emotions that I leave the day-to-day of Pocket for retirement.
“I am very proud and humbled to see the hopes and dreams of so many city makers satisfied as part of the realisation of our vision to help address housing needs in London. With many milestones ahead, I am thrilled to stay involved, albeit from a distance, as a non-executive director.”
Harbard set up Pocket Living in 2005 with chief executive Marc Vlessing after 12 years at Peabody.
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