Meet the team whose mission is the advancement of education

Lee has worked for a large Academy Trust and has also held a Global role within a large communications company. Lee works within the Operations team, he is responsible for Incident Management and proactively monitors all customers connections and outages 24/7 ensuring that downtime is kept to a minimum.  

Dave has worked in the Public Sector for many years and has experience in a number of IT related roles. He looks after LGfL’s Local Government service management function and a primary responsibility of his role is as a ‘Customer Champion’ to take ownership of customer service issues and to work with our technology partners and the customer to get service issues resolved quickly and efficiently.

Dickon manages the delivery of fibre into schools and works with our technology partners to ensure a trouble-free journey for schools joining the LGfL community. Dickon also makes sure that changes in the speed of your connection and any B-end shifts are undertaken as effectively and efficiently as possible. 

Mark was a secondary head of department who leads LGfL’s safeguarding and cybersecurity centres of excellence. He is passionate about keeping children safe and schools secure. He plays an active role nationally advising and developing policy in these areas and the emerging safetytech space.

Mubina is passionate about empowering young people through the positive use of technology, especially regarding whole-school approaches to bullying, in which she took her Masters, or Prevent, where she  was the Ealing Prevent Schools Adviser and is now recognisated nationally as subject expert.

Alex is LGfL’s Safeguarding Education Advisor, supporting schools with ensuring that they meet and indeed exceed their statutory duties to keep children safe. Alex has for the past 15 years, worked predominantly in education and social care managing services and leading safeguarding practice. Alex is dedicated in her work to ensure all children enjoy their rights enshrined in law, to be happy, safe, listened to and to thrive.

Gareth has worked in IT with Schools for 17 years, working with individual schools and MATs. He is currently responsible for supporting the development of LGfL’s Cyber Security Centre of Excellence and managing LGfL’s security products.

Bob Usher was a former secondary school teacher and pastoral & curriculum leader. Bob leads LGfL’s work on the curriculum content and the strategic adoption of technology to enhance everyday teaching and learning. He has been responsible for a range of ground-breaking and award-winning initiatives including the acceleration of new technologies such as Augmented and Virtual Reality across the curriculum, the PedTech portal and the Digital Transformation Toolkit. He was a regional lead for the Dfe Edtech Demonstrator Programme supporting senior leaders during the Covid 19 Pandemic.

Laura has 23 years of primary teaching, many of which were spent as a senior leader. Her last role was Deputy Head which included time spent as Acting Head. She now supports schools in creatively using the LGfL Curriculum and Learning Resources. She has helped develop the PedTech portal and the Digital Transformation Toolkit. She was a regional lead for the Dfe Edtech Demonstrator Programme supporting senior leaders during the Covid 19 Pandemic.

Bradley has been a Primary Teacher for over 14 years. He is a Computing specialist (CAS Master Teacher and SSAT Lead practitioner for Computing), Early Years specialist and Apple teacher and lead consultant for Apple platform. Bradley now supports schools in creatively using the LGfL Curriculum and Learning Resources. 

Belinda Evans

Inclusion Resource Consultant

Belinda has been a Primary Teacher for over 18 years and an advanced skills teacher for the borough of Lewisham in her last three years of teaching. After leaving the full-time classroom Belinda worked for local authorities and education providers as a computing consultant supporting schools across London with implementing and resourcing primary computing. She has supported LGfL for many years, especially in creating many of the curriculum support materials for the learning resources. 

Michael Eva has held senior project and security roles in the Public Sector. Michael is leading LGfL’s work on GDPR and supporting the development of LGfL’s security platforms. 

Mark is an Interdisciplinary Graphic Designer and Front-End Web Developer with a focus on strategic brand design, web + UI, and commercially-driven communications design. Through art direction and creative ideas, he brings the LGfL brand image to life by coding, building responsive websites and creating relevant content experiences that are captivating and a joy to view on every device. The results help to connect with customers and build brand loyalty.

Cy manages all social media accounts for LGfL, assisting with all forms of mass communications and marketing of the many services LGfL has to offer. She also provides support for the development of the NGfL website. 

Mark has been working in the IT industry for more than 30 Years. He started life on BBC micros in 1986 and has continued through the evolution of the PC to the present day. He has been supporting schools for the last 23 years and supports a variety of systems at LGFL, with Webhosting being one of them.  

Ian is a new addition to the Operations Team and has nine years experience working in IT within the Education sector.  Ian supports LGfL staff and provides 2nd and 3rd line assistance to Schools.  

Kam is responsible for assisting the Operations department to deliver on and off-site technical support to the LGfL / NGfL community. Kam has worked previously in Education as a Governing Body Clerk.

As a management accountant and experienced Sage consultant with over 20 years’ experience in senior financial management and consultancy roles, Laura brings a wealth of experience to LGFL. Currently responsible for implementing the Sage 200 upgrade as well as automating and streamlining processes to support the finance function.

Kirsty is a skilled Billing & Credit Manager with a proven track record and over 15 years' experience in leading and developing successful collections teams. She has been with LGfL for 11  years;  responsible for all areas of the sales ledger function, managing a team of transactional finance specialists in order to ensure timely and accurate billing and maintaining a healthy cash flow through timely collections of monies owed.

Fay has worked at LGfL for 11 years and looks after Monthly Reconciliations, Invoicing, Cash Collections, maintaining Direct Debits, Supplier purchase orders, account management and other financial duties. She has 30 years of Financial Sector experience.

Daniele is responsible for collecting and recording financial Information into the LGfL systems and posting all cheques, Invoices and Credit Notes into the Ledgers. She is responsible for running a weekly analysis report, reviewing outstanding payments and liaising with customers to make their accounts current.

Caroline is part of the sales ledger team and currently is responsible for billing, debt collection, settling accounts, and customer relations. She also liaises with the #BridgeTheDivide team to support sales orders and create accounts for new customers. 

Rickesh is an experienced finance officer and brings a wealth of experience in Fixed Asset Management and project management. As a member of the purchase ledger team, Rickesh’s duties include ensuring that our business partners are paid promptly, the management of LGfL Assets and assisting in the production of the Management accounts.

Gemma is a Chartered Accounting Technician with several years of accountancy experience, working within the Financial Services Industry.

Her role sits in the Finance Team and lies within the Accounts payable, carrying out all aspects of duties involved in Accounts payable, with a focus on producing the weekly Customer Payment Run, ensuring prompt payment to our business partners.

Elaine supports Councils and schools in London and Surrey with the co-ordinated admissions process across reception, junior and secondary phases of education. Elaine also champions and leads on the Free School Meals eligibility checker which has identified over £50M in potential claims since it was introduced in 2014.

Myra assists with supporting Councils and schools in London and Surrey with the co-ordinated admissions process across reception, junior and secondary phases of education, as well as providing support on the Free School Meals eligibility checker