Places for People
Matthew Cross currently serves as the Chief Information Officer at Places for People, a position held since October 2022. Previously, Matthew worked at Tesco Bank from July 2014 to October 2022 as the Analytics Director, where responsibilities included leading machine learning and AI solutions, price optimization, and enhancing customer engagement through analytics. Prior roles include Head of Analytics and Head of Credit Risk at Virgin Money from January 2012 to July 2014, where Matthew focused on evolving data-driven culture and integrating risk technology platforms. Notably, Matthew played a crucial role in the establishment of credit risk management frameworks at Northern Rock and contributed as a Risk Manager at HFC Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland. Matthew holds a PhD in Mathematics and an MPhys in Physics from the University of Portsmouth.
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We are Places for People. Community is who we are and what we do. As the UK’s leading Social Enterprise, we change lives by creating, managing, and supporting thriving Communities. Our business consists of complementary companies that are market leaders in placemaking, regeneration and development, investment management, property management and leisure. Working together, we have the expertise and reach to create and manage entire Communities and at every stage of our Customers' lives - providing homes, services support and infrastructure that enable our Customers and their Communities to thrive. We own or manage more than 240,000 properties that are the homes to around 500,000 Customers right across the UK. We operate 80 leisure facilities that support the health and wellbeing of our Customers with an average of 1.9m visits a month. Using the power of partnership and working collaboratively, over 10,500 Colleagues in more than 20 specialist companies create Communities and provide People with opportunities and choice in a way that few organisations can match. We are an organisation that turns profit into purpose, putting everything we earn back into our Communities, projects with social purpose, and creating and maintaining sustainable, thriving places.