Executive Team
The Executive Leadership Team have responsibility for scrutinising the Group’s performance. Additional meetings are held to review Board papers and to review operational matters.
The Executive Team is responsible for Governance and the effective implementation of strategies and policies. The team leads, manages and oversees all employees and is accountable to the Group Board.
David Harris
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Gareth Price
Executive Director of Operations
Wayne Squire
Executive Director of Corporate Services
To be transparent we are publishing our Executive and Non Executive Team’s remuneration. You can see this information in the section below but more detail can be found on pages 83 and 84 of our finance documents.
Executive Remuneration
Our Executive team’s remunerations are shown across Trident Group. The table below shows the number of people each year on this pay scale.
| 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| £90, 000 – £100, 000 | ||
| £100, 001 – £110, 000 | 3 | 3 |
| £110, 001 – £120,000 | 1 | 1 |
| £120 001 – £130 000 | ||
| £130 001 – £140 000 | 1 | |
| £160,001 – £170,000 | 1 |
None Executive Director Remuneration
Our None Executive Directors received remuneration for their work. The pay they received is shown in the table below. It shows the number of our board who received payment in a certain pay scale. This includes some of our retiring members making it 12 people rather than our 9 board members.
| 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| £1,000 – £5,000 | 5 | |
| £6,000 – £10,000 | 12 | 7 |
| £11,000 – £15,000 | 1 | 1 |
David Harris
Group Finance Director
David has been working within the social housing sector, since 2001, in a number of senior finance roles. He aims to bring a business partnering focus to the Finance team which he has achieved elsewhere, challenging and enabling Trident Group to meet its goals. David is a graduate of University of Wolverhampton and a CIMA qualified accountant.
Gareth Price
Executive Director of Operations
Gareth joined Trident Group in 2014 and has worked across the business as a member of the Senior Management Team. Gareth has extensive experience in property management, safety and asset compliance and project management working mainly in Social Care and Housing sectors.
Over the last 20 years Gareth has been employed in a number of management positions at local authorities and governmental organisations within the West Midlands as well as working in the private sector working as an independent consultant.
Gareth is committed to the continued investment in Trident Group’s housing stock and ensuring safe and decent homes for all our residents.
Gareth is our lead for Health and Safety and for Consumer Standards.
Wayne Squire
Executive Director of Corporate Services
Wayne joined Trident Group in 2024 and is an accomplished leader with almost 30 years of experience guiding technology, data, and digital functions across the commercial and not for profit sectors, with the last 18 years spent in local government and social housing.
Wayne most recently worked for Bolton Council where he spent the last 18 months driving their digital transformation and future technology programmes.
As the Executive Director for Corporate Services, he will lead on the group’s technology and data strategies whilst developing a culture of data literacy and confidence across the whole of Trident Group.
Wayne is also our Executive Lead for Complaints.