Meet the Team
Our people come from a wide range of backgrounds which means they are able to adapt their approach to suit your business, and provide you with practical and realistic advice
Pam Loch
Solicitor and Managing Director
Bruce Jenner
Trainer and Director, Loch Wellbeing
Joe Milner
Associate Solicitor and Solicitor Advocate
Caroline Denbow
Senior Associate Solicitor and Director of Legal Compliance
Alice Aldridge
Senior Associate Solicitor
Phil Luff
Senior Associate Solicitor
Laura Foster
Solicitor
Olivia Bobbett
Trainee Solicitor
Ellie Searle
Paralegal
Sally Bedeau
Business Manager, HR Advise Me and Loch Wellbeing
Sam Holder
HR Advise Me Manager
Sue Ranson
HR Consultant
Zarina Calver
HR Consultant
Leanne White
HR and Business Operations Manager
Jen Rolfe
HR Manager
Jackie Lee
Business Services Support Manager
Vanessa Horton
Executive Assistant
Emma Smart
Finance Manager
Frankie Patek
Finance Assistant
Rebecca White
Marketing Manager
Chloe Mouzer
Marketing Assistant
Helen Budd
Associate HR Consultant
Tracy Jones
First Aid for Mental Health Instructor
Seonaid Macdonald
Performance and Career Coach
John Scott
Mediator
Rick Watts
Trainer
Jacqui Green
Associate Coach
Janice Hennessy
Counsellor
Ellie
Chief Officer of Morale
Pam Loch
Solicitor and Managing Director
Pam set up Loch Associates Group in 2007 to respond to the need for commercial and bespoke legal and people solutions for clients. She has continued to evolve the business to respond to client needs and is now proud to have services offering solutions in all elements of HR, employment and business law.
As well as being the Managing Director of Loch Associates Group, Pam has also been a specialist, award-winning employment law solicitor for over 20 years. Her passion for finding solutions to help businesses manage and look after their people is reflected in the development and success of the businesses across the group.
Unusually, Pam is a dual qualified solicitor, having qualified as a solicitor in 2000 in Scotland and England & Wales. Clients like her pragmatic, commercially focussed approach and solutions. Pam is a seasoned commentator on the TV and radio on employment law and HR issues and is often involved in providing training
Pam is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has the following qualifications: ACII, DIP in Legal Practice, LLB (Distinction) and BAdmin (Hons).
Whilst proud of her Scottish heritage, Pam has lived in London and the South East for many years. She enjoys walking Ellie our office dog, keeping fit, spending time with her family, as well as a nice glass of wine.
Bruce Jenner
Trainer and Director, Loch Wellbeing
Bruce has over 30 years’ experience as a nurse managing NHS A&E departments. He was also a member of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces as a Commissioned Officer and has been deployed operationally to Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bruce has turned his expertise to training, health, and wellbeing with his experiences in the military having highlighted how important prevention is to enable a long and healthy life. From a career in dealing with patients in hospitals and soldiers on the ground, Bruce has devised Loch Wellbeing’s Wellness Checks and Proactive Absence Management solution for employers to reduce absenteeism and improve staff engagement.
Caroline Denbow
Senior Associate Solicitor and Director of Legal Compliance
Caroline qualified as a solicitor in 1994, specialising in pensions and employment law for a large City law firm until 1997, and then moving to work as an in-house Employment Lawyer for a large London department store and supporting associated interests in private aviation and residences and football.
Caroline advises clients across a wide range of employment issues including: change management; restructuring and redundancies, developing employment contracts and handbooks to protect businesses, sickness absence, flexible working and maternity and parental leave, holiday pay, equal pay, working time, managing employee performance and exits, unfair dismissals and disputes between Directors, Shareholders and Partners. Caroline also heads up our internal Compliance team, leading our Data Protection Services as well as providing audits and HR compliance services to clients.
Caroline has a BSc (Hons) in Geography and Biology from the University of Exeter and gained her legal qualifications, CPE and Solicitor’s Final Examination, at the College of Law in London.
Olivia Bobbett
Trainee Solicitor
Olivia joined Loch Employment Law in 2021 initially as a Legal Secretary while she completed her LPC and Masters in Law with Distinction at the University of Law (Bloomsbury). Olivia started as a Trainee Solicitor in 2022. Olivia works closely with Pam Loch and the team of solicitors advising and supporting our clients on a wide range of employment and commercial law matters.
Olivia has previous experience as a Litigation Paralegal and she has the following qualifications: LPC Distinction, LLM Distinction, GDL and BA(Hons) Food and Professional Cookery, First Class.
Alice Aldridge
Senior Associate Solicitor
Alice is an experienced Employment Solicitor advising employers and employees across a wide range of sectors. With a particular expertise in advising clients in the regulated services sectors, she regularly provides pragmatic commercial advice on employment terminations and associated claims including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing, breaches of contract and bonus claims.
Alongside this she advises clients on redundancies, restrictive covenants, employment contracts, shareholder agreements, long term incentive plans, LLP agreements, and settlement agreements including at the most senior levels. She is often representing clients in Employment Tribunal and High Court claims too.
Alice was admitted as a solicitor in 2008, specialising in employment law since she qualified, and she has the following qualifications: LPC, GDL and BA (Hons).
Laura Foster
Solicitor
Laura joined Loch Employment Law in 2021 as a solicitor and HR Consultant. She specialises in navigating complex conduct and grievance processes and has a proven track record in supporting the successful defence of high-profile discrimination claims. Although Laura’s most recent experience is in the public sector, she has retained the acute business acumen and commercial awareness she developed during her early legal career working in London and Jersey.
Laura’s dual role in the NHS has given her a unique insight into life at the “coal face”, managing people at all levels of a large and diverse organisation, and a flexible approach to providing advice, tailored to individual needs.
Laura was admitted as a solicitor in 2007 and has the following qualifications: MA Employment Law from the University of Leicester, LPC from the College of Law (Guildford campus), BPE from the University of Brighton and BA(Hons) Theatre and Visual Arts.
Joe Milner
Associate Solicitor and Solicitor Advocate
Joe joined Loch Employment Law in 2013 as an Administration Apprentice before obtaining a First Class law degree from Canterbury Christ Church University and then training to become a Barrister.
Joe is now a Solicitor Advocate and is part of the team working in all areas of employment and commercial law with particular experience representing clients with disputes in Employment Tribunals and Civil Court claims, unfair dismissal, breach of contract, discrimination, unlawful deduction of wages, whistleblowing, contracts and handbooks.
Joe was admitted as a solicitor in 2021, and he has the following qualifications: LPC Distinction; LLM BPTC (called to Bar in November 2018); and LLB (Hons), First Class.
Ellie Searle
Paralegal
Ellie originally joined Loch Associates as an Administrative Assistant in 2017 and after several promotions, has been working as a Paralegal with Loch Employment Law since 2020 . Ellie works on a wide range of employment and commercial law matters. She was Highly Commended at the National Paralegal Awards in the Best Newcomer Category.
Ellie has the following qualification: Diploma in Paralegal Studies from the National Paralegal College.
Sally Bedeau
Business Manager, HR Advise Me and Loch Wellbeing
Sally joined HR Advise Me in 2015 and has over 20 years’ experience working in HR across both the public and private sector, operating at strategic and front-line levels. She is CIPD qualified.
Sally’s pragmatic approach allows her to advise managers on employee relations such as absence and performance management, maternity leave and flexible working. She also assists on TUPE transfers and redundancy processes.
Sally particularly enjoys training others and is often presenting training in person or remotely in general management training which guide on getting the best out of staff.
Sue Ranson
HR Consultant
Sue joined HR Advise Me in 2020 having previously working in HR roles across various industries. Sue uses her HR expertise to guide clients through their day to day HR challenges and works with them to ensure they have the right policies and processes in place for their business. Sue is also CIPD qualified.
Helen Budd
Associate HR Consultant
Helen Budd has over 25 years’ experience working in HR across the hospitality, catering, and medical industries.
Her extensive knowledge collaborating with businesses has enabled her to assist with organisational changes as well as managing complex employee issues on behalf of clients.
She has specialist knowledge of organisational change, project management, employee relations and resourcing.
Leanne White
HR and Business Operations Manager
Leanne is responsible for our Internal HR. She joined Loch Associates Group, having previously worked in HR across the investment and insurance sectors.
Leanne lives in Tunbridge Wells with her husband and 2 children. She has recently taken up running again and is now confidently running 5KM.
Frankie Patek
Finance Assistant
Frankie joined us initially as part of the Government’s Kickstart programme to support our admin function and he is now a valuable member of our finance team assisting with the processing of sales and purchase ledgers.
Frankie is a keen sports fan, regularly watching and attending boxing and football matches.
Tracy Jones
First Aid for Mental Health Instructor
As a qualified Mental Health First Aid instructor, Tracy is passionate about educating others on the impact of mental ill health in the workplace and how to support colleagues who are struggling. This has always been important but has become a very real concern exacerbated by the Covid pandemic and highlighted the need to focus on mental health.
Tracy has over 25 years’ experience working in HR and facilitating training across the hospitality, retail, and manufacturing industries.
Tracy brings a balanced, practical approach to everyday people challenges and has a wide experience of HR related issues. Additionally, she is an experienced facilitator, designing and delivering training to management teams in all areas of leadership.
Rick Watts
Trainer
Rick Watts has over 20 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse since qualifying in 1993. He has worked in various NHS critical care areas, including cardiothoracic and burn units. He is vastly qualified and is currently a Resuscitation Officer within the NHS.
He was a Commissioned Officer in her Majesty’s Armed Forces and has been deployed operationally to Iraq. He continues to work with the Army Reserves as a Staff Officer and as part of the Military Faculty providing Life Support courses to Defence Medical services personnel prepared to deploy overseas on operations.
Rick also has a wealth of experience as an instructor and Course Director for the Resuscitation Council (UK) in Advanced Life Support and Emergency Paediatric and Paediatric First Aid.
John Scott
Mediator
John uses his many years’ experience as an HR practitioner to resolve disputes at employee, shareholder and boardroom levels, having first-hand experience of the complexities of managing large international teams. An empathetic and imaginative communicator, he quickly engenders trust and facilitates difficult discussions from a position of calm authority. He has successfully dealt with many difficult people and organisational issues across the globe, often at time of rapid political, economic, or business change.
Janice Hennessy
Counsellor
Janice Hennessy is one of our Counsellors who provides counselling services to employers. She has worked with many organisations over the past 25 years in the private, public and charitable sectors. As well as being CIPD qualified she is a qualified teacher, counsellor and coach. She supports individuals to work through their development issues and help them to look holistically at solutions that are tailor made for the individual by the individual.
Seonaid Macdonald
Performance and Career Coach
Seonaid’s broad business experience enables her to confidently support and challenge
her clients, providing insight which enables their personal development and a commitment
to action. Her approach is results driven, grounded in practical action, identifying
and enabling the core strengths of the individuals and teams she works with.
Seonaid is unique as a coach in that she can prove a return on your Investment through
her state of the art coaching platform and methodology which has been given Exemplar
status from the National Scale Up Institute.
Seonaid is an accredited member of the British Association for Coaching, is certified in
OPP MBTI 1&2 coaching, New Level Curve Practitioner, Prophet Insight Psychometrics,
Framework 4 Action High performance Team coach, NLP Practitioner.
Jacqui Green
Associate Coach
Jacqui Green is an Associate Coach working with Loch Associates Group and our clients. An experienced coach and mentor, Jacqui focusses on the delivery on personal development and champions the idea that everyone should have access to coaching and mentoring throughout their careers, rather than just more senior members of staff and executive teams.
Jen Rolfe
HR Manager
Jen is part of our internal HR team. After gaining a Degree in Law, Jen joined the Graduate program at Hewitt Associates (now Aon Consulting) where she then completed a MSc in HR Consulting and she’s also CIPD qualified. Her HR experience is extensive having worked with clients across a breadth of areas including reward, engagement, performance management, HR policies and processes and employee relations.
Ellie
Chief Officer of Morale
Ellie is Pam’s Spanish Water Dog. Working as Chief Officer of Morale, she can often be found lounging around the office!
Sam Holder
HR Advise Me Manager
Sam joined HR Advise Me after working in various HR roles for over 20 years. She uses her experience as an in-house Senior HR Business Partner and as an HR Consultant and supporting organisations across a range of industries to help our clients with all their HR needs. Sam manages our team of HR Consultants and uses her HR expertise to support clients through the complete people management life cycle, including recruitment, restructures, and employment relations. She is CIPD qualified.
Outside of work, Sam enjoys watching her kids play football, going to watch Brighton & Hove Albion and catching up with friends whilst walking her dog.
Emma Smart
Finance Manager
Emma manages our finance team. She has worked in a variety of sectors and has a wealth of finance experience we now benefit from.
Outside of work, she spends her time making new memories with her family.
Chloe Mouzer
Marketing Assistant
Chloe works with our Marketing Manager and is responsible for coordinating all our networking, events and training sessions.
Outside of work, Chloe enjoys spending time with her friends and visiting new restaurants.
Jackie Lee
Business Services Support Manager
Jackie oversees all of the support work, as well as helping to manage our business operations. Jackie has worked for law firms in the past and is an experienced PA.
When she’s not working, Jackie enjoys travelling and spending time with her family and friends.
Phil Luff
Senior Associate Solicitor
Phil is an experienced employment solicitor advising employers and employees across the whole range of employment law issues clients encounter. Phil has assisted clients on their contracts, handbooks and settlement agreements as well as Tribunal claims. He also regularly advises on TUPE, post termination restrictions and disciplinary and grievance issues too.
Phil qualified in 2010 from the College of Law and he holds the following qualifications: LPC, GDL, BA Hons Music Industry Management, First Class.
Rebecca White
Marketing Manager
Rebecca works with our Managing Director and manages the Marketing team developing and implementing our marketing and business development strategy. Rebecca has held various roles in international and City law firms. Rebecca oversees the digital marketing, events and relationships and is the main contact for press enquiries.
Outside of work Rebecca enjoys visiting art exhibitions and galleries. Her favourite is the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Vanessa Horton
Executive Assistant
Vanessa is our MD’s Executive Assistant. She grew up in the South-West of France and has been in the UK for over 20 years now. On both sides of the Channel she has worked as a PA/EA at Board level in large and small companies and in various sectors including international events, technology, executive search and publishing.
In her spare time, Vanessa enjoys reading books and learning Japanese.
Zarina Calver
HR Consultant
Zarina is an HR Consultant with HR Advise Me and has worked for many years as an HR Manager before setting up her own HR Consultancy business. After completing her law degree she went on to become MCIPD qualified and is an ILM Qualified Executive Coach.