Chair of Nominations Committee

Member of Finance and Estates Committee

David qualified as a chartered accountant with a predecessor firm of EY. His career has included experience in the accountancy profession and also in banking where he held a number of finance, compliance and audit roles. In 2009 he became Bursar of an international day/boarding school in Surrey, retiring in 2017 when he was appointed to the Board.  David was a Governor of a local primary school for 25 years, 20 years as Chairman. He is also now a Trustee of a local charity providing services to the elderly.  David has a daughter who attended LEH and a son who attended Hampton School.  He has been a Governor at LEH since 2018 and Chair of Governors since September 2019.

Nominated Safeguarding Governor

Member of Education, Staff and Wellbeing Committee

Deborah worked for Marks & Spencer for 38 years and specialised in HR as the executive responsible for Reward, Executive Remuneration, Employment Policy and Performance Management. She was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Deborah was appointed by the judiciary as a lay member of the Central London Employment Tribunals sitting on complex employment cases. She was also recently appointed to the Board of Bournemouth University where she sits on the Finance & Resources Committee and the Remuneration Committee. Deborah lives locally to the school and her sons both attended Hampton School.

Member of Compliance and Risk Committee

Sarah is board advisor to L’Oréal UK & Ireland focusing the board on best practice Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance. She is L’Oréal UK&I’s Head of Legal Innovation & Operations, implementing digitalisation to create efficiencies and effective business partnering. As Deputy General Counsel, she collaborates with other functions and brands to lead negotiations, manage projects, grow value, reduce risk, work on marketing campaigns, protect the corporate and brand reputation and develop charitable and sponsorship partnerships. She sits on the Public Affairs Steering Committee and the Advertising Committee responsible for maintaining high standards across L’Oréal’s advertising portfolio. As a qualified MHFA England first aider, she is a founding member of the Mental Health & Wellbeing Employee Resource Group created to draft policies, deliver training and plan events to reduce stigma around mental health and to promote wellbeing. Sarah started her 20+ year career in silver and magic circle law firms in corporate, commercial, intellectual property and technology before moving into industry. She read law at University College London. She is married with two school age children and has been a Governor since January 2023.

Nominated Safeguarding Governor

Member of Finance and Estates Committee and Compliance and Risk Committee

Sampa Bhasin is a business advisor and mentor based in London. Prior to venturing on her own she was senior Director in EY and helped European companies wanting to establish presence/acquire in India and Indian entrepreneurs to expand/acquire in Europe. Sampa is a management postgraduate from IIM Ahmedabad, India’s premier business school. She is also a certified NLP Master Practitioner.

She has more than 28 years of investment banking experience focused on advising various global and local corporate and PE houses. She has assisted entrepreneurs right from establishing a business plan, succession planning to finding strategic partners or capital.

Along with mentoring businesses, Sampa is also a leadership and life coach, Audit Chair of an international charity and has been Governor of a local school for more than 10 years.

Member of Finance and Estates Committee

Annabel Blair was most recently the Chief Executive Officer & Head of Investor Relations of Lijaro Asset Management. Prior to joining Lijaro in Nov 2019, Annabel worked for 20 years at UBS Investment Bank, most recently as Executive Director within UBS’ London-based Prime Brokerage Sales & Capital Introduction teams. Prior to joining the Prime Brokerage division, Annabel worked for nine years in a number of Equity Sales roles at UBS, based in both London & New York. Annabel holds a bachelor degree in Law (LLB) from the University of Bristol. Annabel has two school age children. Annabel has been a Governor since 2019.

Chair of Compliance and Risk Committee

Member of Finance and and Estates Committee

Following a varied and successful 24-year career as a military engineer, Paul left the army for the public sector in 2001 and held Estates and Operational leadership roles at The British Library and Imperial War Museum.  He joined The National Archives in 2008 as Head of Estates and Facilities, becoming the Operations Director in 2016.  Paul retired as a Senior Civil Servant in June 2021.  He now works and volunteers at Brooklands Museum, where he has been a member for some years.

Chair of Marketing & Development Committee

Member of Nominations Committee and Compliance and Risk Committee

Martin has a career in marketing and communications including almost 20 years at British Airways plc, latterly as Commercial Director. He joined Waitrose in 2017 as Customer Director until his retirement in December 2022.  Martin’s three daughters all attended LEH in the Junior and Senior Schools. Martin has been a Governor since 2019.

Member of Finance and Estates Committee and Development and Marketing Committee

Sarika is a Chartered Accountant and since 2019 is a Founder and COO of Apella Advisors, a business advisory firm which provides strategic communications advice to global clients through the use of data-driven evidence married with expert insight and experience.

Prior to Apella, Sarika worked in a number of services-based companies in sectors including architecture, product design and PR.

Sarika graduated from the London School of Economics after which she joined PwC where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant and spent the first 12 years of her career in the Insurance and Banking Division.

Member of Marketing & Development and Education, Staff and Wellbeing Committee

Allison is a former pupil of LEH who studied languages (French and German) at the University of Bath, she now works for the University of Cambridge as Director of Executive Education having previously held the roles of Director of Open Programmes and Director of the Cambridge Advanced Leadership Programme. Leadership development and management education became Allison’s passion when she worked for several years at INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France. Allison lives in Cambridge and has a son who is studying at university.

Member of Finance and Estates Committee and Development and Marketing Committee

Simon is working as a consultant to a FTSE-100 insurance company, after working in investment / global banking for c.30 years and for the last 20+ years at Morgan Stanley and HSBC, where he was global co-head of the solutions sales business, and sat on the global and European Sales Management committees. He is an economist by training, having attended Cambridge University, and has sat on the investment committee of his College’s Endowment fund for the past 15 years. He has a daughter who attended LEH and a son who attended Eton.

Chair of Finance and Estates Committee

Member of Nominations Committee and Development and Marketing Committee

Robert is a Chartered Accountant and was an audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 25 years until his retirement in 2014. Since then he has been a governor and Chair of the Business Committee at a state primary school (2014 to 2016), a trustee of Parks for London (2014 to 2018) and Advisor to the Audit Committee at Oman Tourism Development Company (2015 to 2018). He is currently an independent member of the audit and risk committees of the care sector charity Marie Curie, the Valuation Office Agency (an executive agency of HMRC), The National Archives and the Canal and River Trust. He is also Chair of a small charitable foundation helping fund learning opportunities for vulnerable children in Lebanon. Robert has been a Governor since 2016.

Member of Education, Staff and Wellbeing Committee

Barbara was a Primary School Teacher after which she become an Advisory Teacher for Primary Science with the Inner London Education Authority. She subsequently became a lecturer at Roehampton University working with BA Education and PGCE Primary students and supervising Undergraduate and Post Graduate students on their Teaching Practice in schools, both state and independent, across London for 22 years.  Barbara has two daughters both of whom went to LEH Junior and Senior Schools. She was on the Council of the Friends for several years, latterly becoming Chairman. Barbara has been a Governor since 2017.

Member of Finance and Estates Committee

Until recently Dan was the CEO of Sparx Learning, the schools’ maths solution, serving nearly two million learners in over half of the secondary schools in the UK, and with a global footprint in 25 countries. 

Alongside his executive career in the education and commercial global business sectors, Dan has also held several non-executive positions. He currently sits on the Leadership Council at the Centre for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution (Washington) and on the board of Foresight VCT plc, a £200m listed fund, as a non-executive director. In 2020, he founded the EdTech Evidence Group to support evidence and efficacy in the EdTech sector.  In 2022, he was awarded the Asian Tech Pioneer award by Diversity UK. 

Dan has recently been appointed as CEO at the Education Development Trust, which supports education programmes across 40 countries.

Chair of Education, Staff and Wellbeing Committee

Tim taught in a wide variety of schools over a 37 year career. He was Head of History and Director of Studies at Haileybury for nine years. He led the introduction of the International Baccalureate Diploma Programme there and also at Brentwood School where he completed his classroom career. 

For 12 years he was governor at Woldingham School, and has also served as Chair of Governors at his local primary school.

He is now a senior examiner for the International Baccalaureate, setting and marking papers and is part of the history curriculum review team. He also has had extensive experience of A level examining.