Our Board is led by an independent chair and includes a mixture of executive directors, who work for the Trust, and independent non-executive members appointed by NHS Improvement.
Please note the following are co-opted / non-voting members of the Trust board: Kate Anderson, Miranda Jenkins, Neil Goulbourne.
Mike Bell has been Chair of LGT since 2022. Mike is an experienced NHS Non-Executive leader, who has served on 10 NHS boards (chairing eight) over a 25-year career, including at NHS provider trusts, Integrated Care Boards, and Strategic Health Authorities, across London.
He joined the North Central and North West London Integrated Care Boards as Chair in 2025, bringing them together as West and North London ICB, launched on 1 April 2026.
Mike has a particular passion and expertise in EDI and sexual health. His career in healthcare began through working with those with HIV and AIDS, and this interest has continued, as he has advocated widely to develop EDI and sexual health work in the capital, along with tackling wider health inequalities.
Most recently, he joined the NHS London Sexual Health and HIV Board and the steering group for fast-track cities. He also convened the London Chairs Network and the NHS London Anchor and Sustainability Chairs & NEDs Network, on behalf of the London regional NHS team.
Elsewhere, he worked as Chief Executive of a national charity and has run a consultancy company for 30 years, delivering contracts to a range of public bodies, working with and alongside the Home Office, NHS England and various providers and commissioners in the NHS and local government across the UK.
Ben Travis has led LGT since April 2018. Working across three diverse London boroughs in acute and community, and previously in mental health, Ben is an experienced and dedicated NHS CEO. During his LGT tenure, the Trust has made significant improvements for patients – achieving outstanding in the well-led domain for maternity – and for colleagues – annually improving across all nine of the staff survey domains. Ben has led the Trust to secure additional capital to build two much needed elective theatres and an Urgent Treatment Centre at LGT’s University Hospital Lewisham and deliver a comprehensive site infrastructure project at Queen Elizabth Hospital that has enabled investment in new wards and services.
Ben is passionate about achieving the right balance between acute and community care, health equity, and system integration. Under his guidance LGT has committed to population health management and has been appointed as the integrator for Lewisham. Recent achievements include working in partnership with a local GP forum to win the contract to provide a UTC for Bexley patients and, and also the virtual wards contract for Lewisham. In 2024, Ben pioneered a new approach to reducing bed days by working with partners and funding innovative new approaches to supporting safe patient discharge and onward care, which is now being expanded. An early supporter of community- based diagnostics, Ben’s team also run services from two new CDCs that are greatly improving local access.
Prior to being appointed to LGT, Ben was chief executive at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. Under his leadership, Oxleas achieved an impressive CQC rating of good or outstanding across every single service domain while remaining in financial balance. Ben started his Oxleas tenure as Director of Finance, a position he held for four years, becoming acting chief executive officer before being given the substantive CEO role. Ben has held previous senior positions within both the NHS and the business services sector, and as a trained Management Accountant, is committed to financial rigour and accountability, consistently delivering within budget at LGT.
Dr Neil Goulbourne is our Chief Strategy, Partnerships, Transformation Officer and Deputy Chief Executive. He joined us in August 2023 from Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, where he was Director of Strategy, Planning and Performance and Chief of Staff.
Dr Goulbourne has a wide and varied NHS and private sector career and brings a wealth of strategic insight and experience to the role at LGT. He served as a GP and Junior Doctor for over a decade in London and the West Midlands before moving into senior leadership roles in the private healthcare sector. Neil returned to the NHS in 2015 as Deputy Director, Strategy for NHS England, and has since worked at GSTT and Croydon in senior roles in strategy and improvement.
A longstanding member of the Trust, Dr Patel has been with LGT since 2003 as Consultant Physician in General, Geriatric & Stroke Medicine.
He has held several key leadership roles in his time at LGT, including Acting Chief Medical Officer.
As his professional home for over 20 years, Mehool knows LGT inside out and has a wealth of local and professional insight and experience.
Louise Crosby was appointed Chief Nurse with effect from March 2022.
After qualifying in 1986, Louise worked as a nurse at Whittington Health NHS Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, specialising in cardiology.
She has held a number of senior positions and was Director of Nursing at Newham University Hospital for Barts Health NHS Trust before joining Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Prior to this, she was Director of Nursing at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, which achieved a rating of “Outstanding” from the Care Quality Commission.
Miranda Jenkins was appointed Chief Operating Officer in June 2022, following a year on secondment as Executive Director of Performance and Elective Care.
Miranda has 20 years’ experience in operations, service improvement and strategy, spanning hospital and community services, clinical networks and the voluntary sector. Before joining the Trust, Miranda was Deputy Director of the Evelina London Clinical Group at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT).
Miranda joined the NHS as a graduate trainee and has always worked in south east London, including 12 years at GSTT and six years at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Satnam Sagoo joined Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in July 2025 as Chief People Officer, leading the Trust’s People and Culture agenda.
Satnam is a strategic, board-level leader with experience spanning the NHS, wider public sector, and international humanitarian organisations. She began her career as a Public Health Consultant and has since held senior roles at local, national and global levels, bringing a broad system perspective to her work.
She focuses on shaping high-performing, inclusive organisations where leadership is visible and accountable, and teams are enabled to deliver consistently high-quality care. Her work centres on aligning culture, leadership and delivery to drive sustainable improvement at scale. Prior to joining LGT, Satnam was Chief People Officer at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, where she led one of the largest People and Culture transformations in the NHS, including the integration of multiple organisations into a single Trust.
Satnam holds a PhD in Food Microbiology and is a Fellow of the CIPD and the Learning and Performance Institute.
She is proud to be part of Team LGT and is committed to building a culture where people feel they belong, can thrive and deliver outstanding care for the communities they serve. She believes that how we lead, how people feel at work, and the cultures we create directly shape the care we provide.
Caroline Owusu-Bennoah is LGT's new Chief Financial Officer.
She joins us following more than five successful years in post as Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
Kate Anderson joined the Trust’s finance team in June 2015, Kate spent 14 years working as a qualified accountant in KPMG’s Public Sector Audit team working with NHS organisations in both audit and advisory capacity.
Kate is skilled in financial and governance matters and is pleased to bringing this expertise to the Trust as its Director of Corporate Affairs.
In her current role Kate will drive forward the Trust’s arrangements for ensuring effective corporate governance, and will also take on responsibility for the Trust’s communication and emergency planning teams.
Dr Pui-Ling Li is a Consultant in Public Health and a general practitioner. As a senior public health physician, she has over 20 years of experience in the delivery of health, service improvements and system change at local, regional, national and international level.
She has held a number of Board and Executive Director level roles in the NHS and in Government Departments including Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientist in Department for Work & Pensions.
She has extensive experience in raising the quality of health care in primary and secondary care settings and is always looking for an innovative approach to deliver better health outcomes. She has also mixed her professional career with a variety of roles in the charitable sector. She has an enduring commitment to front line clinical practice and in 2020 returned to practice as a GP in the East End of London.
Anna is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience advising and working with public and private healthcare organisations, as well as companies working with the NHS.
Anna is the Commercial Director of the Health Innovation Network South London (HIN), and has been instrumental in establishing HIN at the forefront of the spread and adoption of innovation in the NHS. She is responsible for the design, development and delivery of the DigitalHealth.London programmes, including the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, Launchpad and Generator programmes.
Anna was previously Chair of the Finance Audit and Risk Committee of SBRI Healthcare Board, and well as currently being on the Board of the NHS Innovation Accelerator, Advisory Board of Q at The Health Foundation and Good Thinking (the digital mental health and wellbeing platform for the people of London).
Anna qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and spent 13 years working in corporate finance and audit.
Harry Bright was appointed as a non-executive director in January 2018. He has over forty years of international banking experience, holding several senior executive positions in the UK and abroad. Harry’s most recent role was a member of the Senior Management Executive of Santander UK plc until his retirement in January 2022.
During his professional career Harry was involved in the financing of critical UK infrastructure from 1994. Harry holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Financial Services from London Guildhall University. He is also Governor of a local Primary School (Tatsfield) and Chairman of Dartford Cricket Club.
Godfrey Allen joined the Trust Board in October 2022. He was a Non-Executive Director at Croydon Health Services, having previously been a NED at Wandsworth PCT and chair of NHS SW London Support Services Partnership Board.
The former (founding) Chair of South Thames Colleges Group, Godfrey remains a NED at two international non-governmental organisations, including the International Association of Youth & Family Judges & Magistrates. Godfrey has held CEO and MD roles in the public, private and charitable sectors since he was 27. He holds a MSc in Public Service Management and is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Chartered Institute of Management and the RSA.
Dr Nav Chana MBE has been a Non-Executive Director at LGT since January 2023. He has been a GP in Merton for 34 years and was formerly a Non-Executive at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
As former Chair of the National Association of Primary Care he co-led the development of the ‘primary care home’ model the learning from which contributed to the development of primary care networks.
Dr Chana has had a varied career in healthcare education; formerly a Director of Education Quality (DEQ) for Health Education South London, and prior to that the Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community Based Education in London.
Will Tuckley lives with his family in Lewisham. He moved to south London in 1982 and to the borough a few years later. His wife, Donna, is a textile designer and runs two shops in Hither Green. Their first daughter was born in Lewisham Hospital.
Will is currently the Chief Executive and Managing Director Commissioner at Slough Borough Council having joined from the City of Brighton and Hove in 2024. He was the Chief Executive of Tower Hamlets Council from October 2015 until March 2023. He became Chief Executive in the London Borough of Bexley in 2008 and was previously Deputy Chief Executive in Croydon.
Will has been the Chair of a large housing association, led the London Serious Youth Violence Board and was responsible for the alcohol theme for the London Mayor’s London Health Improvement Board. Will chaired the London Chief Executives Group for three years and was for many years the lead London borough Chief Executive for health.
He chaired the London Health Devolution Programme Board, co-chaired the London Health & Care Strategic Partnership Group and advised the London Health Board and Local Government Association.
Professor Catherine Evans is a senior clinical academic in palliative care, at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy, and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, and honorary Nurse Consultant, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.
She is a member of the King’s Health Partners Executive Group representing the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London.
She is also Deputy-Director for the King’s Clinical Academic Training Office, promoting rewarding research careers for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. She leads the NIHR INSIGHT Programme for South London inspiring students and health and care professionals to pursue research careers.
Her background is in district nursing and palliative care. She joined King’s College London in 2010 and has progressed her career as clinical academic nurse securing prestigious NIHR fellowships as a clinical lecturer (2011-2015) and Senior Clinical Lecturer (2016-2022). She was promoted to Professor in 2021. Catherine leads a research programme on community palliative care and integration with dementia and geriatric care, and transitions between hospital and home. Her research incorporates new models of integrated palliative care in primary and community care, use of person-centred outcomes for holistic assessment linked with clinical decision tools, and digital healthcare for remote assessment and management of care.
Jane joined the trust as an associate NED in January 2026. The commitment of the team to provide high quality health provision across all areas of health and the depth of expertise has been extremely impressive.
Since December 2019 Jane has been the Vice Chancellor and CEO of the University of Greenwich. She is responsible for a large organisation with a £340 million turnover, 32,000 students and more than 2500 staff operating across four sites and with significant overseas partnerships. Greenwich’s transnational portfolio is diverse and extensive.
Prior to this Jane was Deputy Vice chancellor and Provost at University of the West of England, having previously been the PVC and Executive Dean for Business and Law there.
Her background is in employment studies. She has held senior leadership positions for 20 years. Her focus has always been on improving young people’s lives regardless of their backgrounds and her experience running large organisations has given her a wide range of skills in leadership, transformational change, managing large and complex estates and financial management in a constrained environment.