Executive Leadership Team
Our Executive Leadership Team leads over 200 staff working in specialised areas of Customers, Homes, Finance, Governance and Risk, Legal and Operations.
Joe Achmar
Acting Group Chief Executive Officer
B.Bus., CA.
Joe is an experienced finance executive and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He joined SGCH in June 2022. Joe brings almost 30 years of commercial finance experience with twelve of those as a Chief Financial Officer, most recently at Venues NSW. Joe commenced his professional career at EY before joining AMP Capital, culminating in his appointment as Fund Controller for the Property Division. Joe brings experience in similar organisations having been CFO of Campus Living Villages between 2010-2017. In this role, Joe played a key role managing investor and financier relationships while supporting the operating business to serve thousands of students living in properties in Australia, NZ, the USA and UK.
Andrew Brooks
Group Executive, Homes
BSc (Honours) Building Surveying, MRICS
As Group Executive, Homes, Andrew oversees a $3.3 billion property portfolio for SGCH. He joined the organisation in May 2013 leading the leveraging strategy associated with the vested portfolio of Nation Building assets and taking responsibility for Development and Construction and Property Services teams, now grouped under the Homes portfolio.
Before joining SGCH, Andrew held the position of Project Leader for the $900m Bonnyrigg PPP at Becton Property Group. Prior to moving to Australia in 2007, Andrew gained commercial experience leading and delivering major urban regeneration projects in the UK, working for the Grosvenor Estate (London and Bath) as Commercial Projects Director, and Development Director at both Associated British Ports (Cardiff Bay) and Bank of Scotland (Edinburgh). Andrew develops and builds strong partnerships with government, community, and key stakeholders to ensure delivery of successful projects with a focus on safe, sustainable homes.
Claudia Certoma
Group Executive, Legal, Governance and Risk
General Counsel and Company Secretary
BEc (Hons I), LLB (Hons I) (Syd), Solicitor (NSW, HCA), GradDipACG, AGIA ACG (CS, CGP)
Claudia joined SGCH in November 2020 to establish and lead the combined legal and governance function and to work with the Board to ensure best practice governance standards.
Claudia is an experienced general counsel and governance professional with around 20 years of commercial legal experience. As General Counsel for the residential development business at Frasers Property Australia, she worked with CHPs on mixed use social, affordable and private housing developments and mixed use precinct developments, including the innovative NSW Communities Plus Ivanhoe Estate Redevelopment.
As Corporate Counsel at Laing O’Rourke Australia, Claudia advised the development business and treasury function, working on PPPs, development and construction, finance, corporate and commercial matters, company secretarial, risk and compliance projects.
Claudia’s skills include understanding and working with complex operational businesses to achieve commercial outcomes with a customer and risk focus.
Iulia Brooks
Executive Director, Customers – Homes and Places
BArch, CPPM
Iulia joined SGCH in May 2023 as Head of Safe and Sustainable Homes. Iulia has held senior roles in not-for-profit aged care and retirement living, multinational consultancy groups in the advisory and construction delivery space and has delivered projects in the university, commercial and government sectors.
Iulia was part of the team leading the $7 billion procurement for maintenance across the Sydney Water portfolio. She led the divestment of health services to the Western NSW Local Health District and the NSW Ministry of Health, developing customer-centric approaches to collaboration across business streams.
Iulia develops and builds strong partnerships with key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of successful services with a focus on safe, sustainable, and quality homes for the community.
Iulia is leading this new portfolio to enhance our customer-centric approach with a focus on the quality and maintenance of the homes we provide.
Robin Fletcher
Acting Executive Director, Customers – Service
BA (hons), MSc, MA
Robin has more than 20 years’ experience working in homelessness and social and affordable housing in the UK and Australia. Before joining SGCH in 2021, Robin worked at Link Wentworth and Bridge Housing in a range of operational and leadership roles.
Robin started his career in social housing in Wandsworth, South West London, where he gained a breadth of experience across the Housing Department at Wandsworth Council as part of a graduate management trainee scheme which included completing a Masters degree in Housing Practice.
In his current role as Acting Executive Director, Customers – Service he oversees the tenancy management operations across SGCH and our Service Outcomes and Improvement team.
David Jiang
Acting Chief Financial Officer
B ActStud, B Econ, M Acc, CA
David brings to SGCH nearly 20 years of experience in senior finance roles with a depth of experience within ASX-listed and mid-sized businesses. David is a skilled relationships manager who develops meaningful partnerships across all levels of an organisation.
David joined SGCH in July 2023 from Catholic Church Insurance where he held the position of Head of Group Financial Control. He spent nearly 13 years at AMP on statutory and regulatory reporting, mergers and acquisitions, accounting advisory, consolidation, financial planning and analysis, and identifying/executing opportunities that drive tangible return on investment. David was also Head of transformation at MLC Life Insurance and Financial Controller at Allianz Retire+.