EXECUTIVE TEAM
Managing Director
Mrs Vivien Farrow MSc MBA
Vivien Farrow joined Cotman Housing Association in May 1987 as Development Manager. She was promoted to the joint post of Development Manager/Deputy Director in October 1989 and to Chief Executive in 1990. She became Managing Director in April 2009 following Cotman's entry into the Places for People Group.
After leaving school she attended Art College in Kingston upon Thames, following which she joined the Architect’s Department Bedfordshire County Council. Whilst working there she gained HNC in Building Construction.
Mrs Farrow was with Bedfordshire County Council for 8 years before moving as Senior Architectural Technician to a Norwich based Architect’s practice that specialised in residential development.
In January 2000 Mrs Farrow obtained a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Roffey Park Management Institute, and in 2006 graduated with an MSc in Career Management and Counselling from the Dept of Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Director of Asset Management & Property Services
Mr Wayne Tatlow BA(Hons) Dip Housing FCIH
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing, Wayne Tatlow joined the Association as Housing Management Officer in August 1992, having completed a postgraduate Diploma in Housing and, some years earlier, a BA (Hons) in Sociology.
Prior to returning to University as a mature student he worked for the United States Department of Defence and held a variety of posts in the Housing Management Offices on the USAF bases located at RAF Lakenheath and RAF Bentwaters.
Mr Tatlow was promoted to the post of Housing Manager in April 1994 in the face of strong external competition. In March 2000 his post was re-titled Housing Services Director. Following an internal reorganisation prompted by the transfer of the Places for People stock, he was appointed as Director of Asset Management & Property Services in June 2010.
Director of Neighbourhoods & Support Services
Mrs Jane Warnes BA(Hons) FCIH DMS
Jane Warnes joined the Association in September 1992 as a Housing Management Officer. She has since held the positions of Area Housing Manager and Operations Manager. Following an internal reorganisation prompted by the transfer of the Places for People stock, she was appointed as Director of Neighbourhood and Support Services in June 2010.
Mrs Warnes holds a degree in French from the University of East Anglia. She was previously employed at Norwich City Council and worked in both the Planning and Housing Departments. She studied for the Professional Qualification of the Institute of Housing at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford before embarking on a Diploma in Management Studies at City College. Jane was elected as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing in 2008 and was awarded a Masters Degree in Business Administration at the University of East Anglia in 2011.