Our staff

Richard Orpin, Interim Chief Executive

Richard joined the LSB in 2023. Before being appointed Interim Chief Executive in 2025, Richard was Director, Regulation & Policy, leading the policy, strategy, research and regulatory teams at the Legal Services Board.  

Prior to joining the LSB, Richard spent nine years at Ofcom, where he worked on telecommunications, media and postal services policy. He has also held roles in central government, including as Head of Domestic Gambling Policy at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.

Jelena Lentzos, Interim Director Regulation Policy & Strategy 

Jelena has spent 17 years working in and around government, mainly in the justice sector in a variety of roles, the last 8 within the policy profession. She was most recently Deputy Director, Legal Aid Policy at MoJ, during which time she was responsible for ensuring delivery of the statutory duty to provide legal aid and access to justice and the delivery of significant reforms to legal aid fee schemes and eligibility for legal aid. She previously held policy leadership roles in criminal legal aid, victims support and private family law reform. Before moving into policy, she held senior roles in other areas including sponsorship of MoJ’s arm’s length bodies, project and programme delivery and shared services.

Angela Latta, Head, Performance and Oversight

Angela joined the LSB in April 2018 and is responsible for regulatory oversight of the regulatory bodies. Angela leads on the key interfaces with the regulators on regulatory performance policy, performance review and remedies, relationship management and internal governance rules policy and implementation. She is also the project sponsor for two of the longer-term LSB projects on Ongoing Competence and Diversity.

Prior to joining the LSB Angela was Head of Operations at the Groceries Code Adjudicator and prior to that held a diverse range of senior positions at the Department for Business. Work in the Department included: Strategy development and delivery; better regulation; regional economic development; open data; strategic stakeholder engagement; energy policy and support for small businesses.

Paul Nezandonyi, Head, Communications and Engagement

Paul is responsible for the LSB’s communications and stakeholder engagement work.

He was previously Head of Communications and Public Affairs at the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and Head of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement at the Press Recognition Panel. In an independent capacity Paul has delivered PR and media projects for several charities and not-for-profit organisations, as well as professional bodies.

Samuel Omolade, Head, Strategy and Research

Samuel joined the Legal Services Board (LSB) in April 2024 and some of his key responsibilities include overseeing the organisation’s policy work on technology and innovation, equality, diversity and inclusion, consumer empowerment and building the horizon scanning capability of the LSB. In addition, Samuel oversees the LSB’s research and wider work on strategy and business planning.

His policy and research experience spans multiple central Government departments including the Ministry of Justice, Home Office, the Department for Transport, and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Prior to joining the LSB, Samuel was based in the Regulation for Innovation Directorate in DSIT where he was responsible for leading the Regulatory Horizons Council team to identify the pipeline of new and emerging technologies which included drones, space and neurotechnologies and work with an independent expert committee to provide recommendations to Government on regulatory reform needed to maximise the social and economic benefits for the UK.