Legal & General Surveying Services names new top team
26 March 2026
Surveying veteran Richard Sexton to lead refreshed senior leadership team
Legal & General Surveying Services (“LGSS”) has announced the formation of a refreshed and expanded senior leadership team.
The new team combines long-standing LGSS expertise with experience from across the industry.
Graham Sloan takes on the role of surveying director. Graham spent almost a decade in the Royal Navy as a warfare officer before moving into surveying at CBRE, working in real estate finance, capital advisors including fixed charge receivership. He joined Legal & General Investment Management in 2014 as an asset manager before moving to lenders such as Lloyds Banking Group, OSB Group and Santander.
Rebecca Freeman, the founder of Women in Residential Surveying, joins as risk director following 22-years with Countrywide Surveying Services.
Paula Matthews, who has been with LGSS since 2017, becomes strategic relationship director, while Jamie Elliot becomes chief operating officer – having spent nearly seven years with the business as finance director. Jodie White steps into the service delivery director role, bringing more than 20 years’ experience within LGSS, including as head of product & transformation.
Richard Sexton has been appointed as managing director of the business. In 2025, Sexton, a mortgage valuation veteran, was poached from e.surv to work as commercial director of Houzecheck. In addition to his primary role with LGSS, Sexton will continue in an advisory capacity with Houzecheck.
The appointments follow Legal & General’s sale of the surveying business as part of its wider simplification strategy.
Richard Sexton, managing director of LGSS, said:
“LGSS is an established brand with strong in-house expertise. It has a team of knowledgeable and skilled surveyors who deliver quality work and are experienced valuing complex properties for BTL portfolios, HMOs and the like. They are already backed by strong data, audit and tech teams. LGSS’s Property Decision Engine, for instance, is first class – speeding up the process for borrowers and reducing costs for lenders. Now, with a new senior leadership team combining decades of experience across the property and surveying sectors, we plan to expand the business and unleash its potential. This marks a new chapter for LGSS.”
LGSS has been operating for more than 20 years and provides valuation, surveying and digital reporting for lenders. It handled 375,000 mortgage valuations in 2025.
