Steven Henderson

Group Chief Executive

Steven Henderson joined Wheatley Group in 2013 from the European Investment Bank (EIB). He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a Chartered Accountant.  He is also a member of Business in the Community Scotland’s Leadership Board and Chair of its Scotland Place Steering Group.

Steven has specialised in housing and regeneration throughout his career. At the EIB, the EU’s non-profit development bank, he was responsible for investment of £250 million of European Union Structural Funds, as well as lending activity for the bank in the UK social housing, regeneration, climate change and sustainability sectors.  Prior to that, he worked in an advisory capacity supporting the work of numerous housing providers and projects in the UK and internationally.

During his time at Wheatley, the Group has raised more than £1.2 billion of private and public finance, which has helped fund multi-million pound investment programmes in existing homes and one of the UK’s most ambitious social house-building programmes.

Under his leadership, Wheatley is also ‘Making Homes and Lives Better’ for customers across 19 local authority areas in Scotland through the work of the award-winning Wheatley Foundation and Wheatley Care.