Team
Our Board and Executive team
MYSHON is led by a Board and Executive team with many years of experience in social housing, property management, finance and investment. Between them they have worked at chief executive and board level in some of the UK’s largest housing organisations, built and run national property and tenancy management businesses, and held senior roles with housing associations, charities and local authorities.
That depth of experience means our partners can be confident that MYSHON is well led, properly governed and focused on providing safe, well-managed homes.
David Cowans FCIH
Company Chairman
David is the former Group Chief Executive of the Places for People Group, one of the largest housing, placemaking, property management and development companies in the UK. David has over 40 years’ experience of housing, urban regeneration, mixed-tenure and mixed-use development, property management and financial management, and of leading strategic change in large and small organisations.
David is an experienced Chief Executive, Chair, Advisor and Non-Executive Director who is one of the most influential figures in the housing industry.
David is a Fellow of the Institute of Housing, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors and has an MBA from Birmingham University. He is also an Academician of The Academy of Urbanism and a Policy Fellow at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.
Martin Corbett MRICS
Co-founder and Executive Director
Martin co-founded MYSHON and is one of its Directors.
He is an investor across a number of tenancy management, furniture and fit out businesses with a combined turnover of over £100m per annum and employ circa 1,000 staff across the UK.
MYSHON fits into this family of companies with Martin providing Myshon with strategic advice, introductions and overseeing legal workstreams.
John Dawson MRICS
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
John is the Chief Executive of MYSHON and co-founded the company.
John has 20 years’ experience in property management, having previously worked within multinational property services companies across a range of real estate sub-sectors and disciplines.
John is an expert in specialist supported housing and supported housing. Since 2017 he has been at the forefront of shaping and improving these growing areas of social housing.
John lives in Harrogate with Esther and their four boys.
Harry McKeown CIHCM
Chief Operating Officer
Harry is Myshon’s Chief Operating Officer and joined us in August 2024. Prior to Myshon, he worked for a variety of housing associations, charities, and alongside the Welsh Government in roles relating to Housing First, community safety, housing management, care, support, and rough-sleepers outreach.
Harry is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIHCM) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He has a Post-Grad Certificate in Leadership and Management in Housing and Homelessness, a CIH Professional Diploma in Housing, and is studying towards Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in his “spare” time.
He was previously the Chair of “Man&Boy” (a charity that supports men and boys to be positive role models and empowers them to reach their full potential) and regularly volunteers for the homelessness charity Crisis.
Sam Carson
Executive Director
Sam’s experience covers various sectors including finance and social & affordable housing.
Sam previously worked as a Portfolio and Investment Analyst at Morgan Stanley in their Los Angeles office before joining John and Martin across the First Alliance Housing/Myshon and 2-Work family of companies. Sam has a passion for placemaking and is the Group Director of SIRE Group, a purpose driven real estate group that designs, builds and delivers communities within the living and workspace sectors.
Sam is from the red side of Manchester and loves to be on the golf course.