We are delighted and excited to announce the appointment of Sarah Thurgood as Chief Operating Officer at Venture Housing Company. This is a newly established executive leadership role in response to Venture’s growth and strategic directions.

Sarah is a highly regarded, exceptional leader whose career in the NT includes remote, regional and urban settings, with a solid track record of delivering exceptional results in housing, community development, child, youth and family services and disability and for the past 6 years as the Territory Director for Life Without Barriers. Sarah has driven and delivered strategic and operational reform and service transformation, business and service re-engineering and led organisational initiatives to drive excellence and sustainable impacts for the organisation and for clients. Sarah brings exceptional stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills, commercial acumen and importantly a passion to make an impact in people’s lives through social and affordable housing solutions.

We’re really looking forward to welcoming Sarah to the team in June.