Sustainability and Impact

Janani joined Newbridge in March 2025 to grow our ESG and Sustainability service. She was previously Head of ESG and Sustainability for Places for People Group where she had set up the ESG function, publishing an ESG strategy and introducing extensive ESG reporting. She was also the founder and chair of the social housing ESG working group, working closely with Sustainability for Housing on the latest version of the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing.

Prior to Places for People, Janani spent nearly 10 years in central Government, having worked across health, constitutional and housing policy. She worked on developing legislation such as leasehold reform and the Building Safety Act, and wrote the Social Housing White Paper, A Charter for Social Housing.

Areas of expertise:

• Strategy development
• Support with ESG disclosures
• Support with grant funding and bid writing
• Government engagement
• Policy reviews

Chris Evans joined Newbridge in June 2020, having spent nearly 11 years at Lloyds Bank where he helped develop their Debt Capital Markets franchise. Alongside supporting clients with treasury activity, Chris leads our ESG and Impact services, ensuring our clients remain compliant with their obligations, and at the forefront of regulation and stakeholder expectation.

Areas of expertise:

• Sustainable finance
• Limited assurance and ongoing disclosure
• Investor relations
• Capital markets funding

Chris is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has a qualification in ESG Investing (CFA UK Level 4 Certificate).

Imran provides expert advice on the full range of treasury and corporate finance areas. He led the Bromford treasury team for over eight years, where he established Bromford as one of the leading housing associations in the debt and capital markets and led on the completion of three successful mergers, achieved the sector leading dual credit rating, and pioneered overseas funding in the US and sustainable finance in the UK with the first green loan in the sector.

He brings a unique approach with an in-house mindset, with an appreciation of strong governance, managing stakeholders at Board and Executive, and including the resident voice in treasury activity. Imran is a key driver of thought leadership in our sector, and convened the National Housing Federation’s Treasury in Housing Conference in 2023 and 2024. He has authored a number of thought pieces in leading sector journals, including banking the future of social housing, why treasury activity must be customer centred and the future of sustainability linked loans.

Imran is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and prior to Bromford, he led housing and infrastructure advisory mandates at PwC in the UK and overseas for over ten years. He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Oxford.

Areas of expertise:

•        Business planning

•        Treasury strategy

•        Credit ratings

•        Mergers and acquisitions

•        Bank funding

•        Capital markets

•        Sustainable finance

•        Legacy negotiation and debt restructuring

•        Off balance sheet finance

Cameron joined Newbridge in August 2022, having started his career at BNP Paribas Real Estate. At BNP PRE, Cameron worked within the development advisory department, mainly leading on viability assessments of prospective developments and associated feasibility studies.

Major project examples include a 550 unit co-living development in Battersea as well as an 950 unit scheme in Central Bedfordshire. Cameron also assisted with the undertaking of valuation reports for existing properties and future developments.

Cameron graduated from Oxford Brookes in 2016 having undertaken the Planning and Property Development undergraduate course. Cameron is an accredited member of the RICS having qualified in 2019 and specialises in development appraisals. To date, Cameron has appraised an array of residential and mixed-use schemes containing a wide range of asset classes.