Helen Venn brings to the OEP a strong legal background and over 20 years regulatory experience of investigation and enforcement. Helen has spent the last seven years as an Executive Director and Programme Director at the Gambling Commission where she led on licencing, compliance and enforcement. Helen also drove significant cultural change to operations, to increase effectiveness and efficiency.  

Previous roles have included Head of Authorisation and Head of Supervision at the Solicitors Regulation Authority where Helen led cross organisational teams to investigate high profile and complex regulatory cases. Prior to that Helen spent five years as an Investigative Lawyer responsible for prosecuting serious and complex fraud cases and potential miscarriages of justice.