Gloria Yang will be joining 20,000-home housing association Moat on 11 April 

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Gloria Yang joins Moat from Origin Housing

The deputy chief executive of Origin Housing, Gloria Yang, has been poached by south-east based social landlord Moat to be its new executive director of finance. 

Yang will come to 20,000-home Moat on 11 April after being deputy CEO for two years at Origin, which manages more than 7,000 homes in London and Hertfordshire.

Before being deputy CEO at Origin she was finance director for two years, before which she was a consultant on finance integration at Clarion Housing Group for just over a year between 2017 and 2018. 

This came after working at the East Thames Group for nearly five years, where for three years she was director of finance. 

Moat said in a statement: “Gloria is a passionate advocate of social housing, with a career that spans over 16 years in the sector. She has enjoyed a variety of advisory, executive, and non-executive finance roles within several housing associations, most recently as deputy CEO and previously as director of finance.

“As a pivotal member of the executive management team, Gloria will contribute to the shaping of our corporate strategy and will be responsible for developing the financial well-being of Moat, providing solid financial leadership and ensuring a robust structure is in place to further secure and enable Moat and our customers. Moat is thrilled to have Gloria on board.”

Moat has a development pipeline of 1,679 affordable homes to rent or to buy. Last year it announced it had poached the chief executive of Essex-based association CHP Mary Gibbons to become its chief executive.