David Royston, Chair of Audit and Risk Committee
David is a chartered accountant with 35 years’ experience in practice, energy utilities and housing. His most recent role was Executive Director of Finance & ICT at Accent Housing, where amongst other things, he was responsible for leading the refinancing of the group’s borrowing, culminating in the issue of Accent’s record breaking £350m bond in the summer of 2019, the first UK Housing Association to achieve a coupon rate of less than 3%.
Previously David worked for Anchor Retirement Housing, Yorkshire Electricity/Npower and KPMG, before he retired at the end on 2021. David lives in Baildon with his wife, Lynne, and is a season ticket holder at Bradford City AFC. He also enjoys foreign travel and hill walking. David brings with him extensive finance and treasury experience, a helpful critique at Board meeetings and is looking forward to being an ambassador for Leeds Federated.