Steve Pearson Interim Joint Chief Executive Steve is currently the Interim Joint Chief Executive at LeO, alongside David Peckham. Prior to this Steve was the Deputy Chief Ombudsman. Steven re-qualified as a benefit fraud investigator and spent nearly two years working for the Department for Work and Pensions before joining the Legal Ombudsman as an investigator in 2011. Steven became an Ombudsman in 2013 and was promoted to Senior Ombudsman in 2015. Immediately prior to becoming Interim Joint Chief Executive, Steve was the Deputy Chief Ombudsman which included oversight of high risk case work.
