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.

Member of Education, Staff and Welfare Committee, and Nominations Committee

Nominated Safeguarding Governor

Paula’s career was in teaching, her first post at St Margaret's School in Midhurst, West Sussex, where she became Head of the Maths Department.  She then spent three years working in Peru, running a parish. Paula then returned to Midhurst to assume the post of Deputy Head, before moving to Woldingham School in 2001, where she was Director of Pastoral Care.  In 2007 she became Headmistress of St Catherine's, Twickenham, until she retired in 2018.  Paula has been a Governor since 2017.

Member of Finance and Estates 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 is 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.

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

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 where his current role is Customer Director.  Martin’s three daughters all attended LEH in the Junior and Senior Schools. Martin has been a Governor since 2019.

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.

Chair of Education, Staff and Welfare Committee

Member of Nominations Committee

Nominated Safeguarding Governor

Cathy attended LEH from 1978 - 1989. She joined the Marks & Spencer Retail Management Scheme after leaving school and has since spent her 30 year career working in Human Resources in UK & International markets leading acquisition, growth, integration and organisational change programmes at HR Director and Board level.  Cathy is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. Cathy now runs her own consultancy business specialising in HR, Leadership & Development, executive coaching and student careers. Cathy is chair of the Board of Trustees for Surviving Economic Abuse – the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. Cathy also volunteers as an Enterprise Adviser through the Careers and Enterprise Company partnering with a local school to develop their careers programme.

Member of Education, Staff and Welfare 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 Compliance & Risk Committee

Steven started his legal career at Slaughter and May and has been a Partner within the Real Estate Department at Macfarlanes since 1998.  He advises a diverse range of clients on domestic and international corporate transactions, corporate recovery and re-structuring situations and development and investment in real estate assets for a variety of investors. Steven has three children still within full time education.  Steven has been a Governor since 2019.

Chair of Compliance & Risk Committee

Member of Finance and and Estates Committee and Nominations Committee

Richard was a Partner within the Corporate Department of CMS Cameron McKenna (now CMS).  He was Senior Partner and Chairman of the Board (for two terms) from 2002 until 2011 and retired in 2014.  He now undertakes a number of non-executive and consultancy roles.  Richard’s daughter attended LEH in the Senior School. Richard has been a Governor since 2019.

Member of Development & Marketing Committee and Compliance & Risk Committee

Catherine is co-founder of Brand Love - a business and brand strategy agency and has worked in communications and marketing in real estate, investment management, retail fashion, beauty and luxury brands, in the UK, Europe and Middle East. Catherine is also a Non-Executive Director of Barking and Dagenham Council's regeneration company BeFirst and Commercial Director of Common Objective - a sustainable fashion technology platform. Catherine has two adult children. Catherine was originally a Governor for a short period prior to going to Dubai and re-joined the Board in 2017.

Member of Finance and Estates Committee