Jackie Brock-Doyle, Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Jackie has designed and directed communication, media and sponsorship programmes for some of the world's biggest brands and events in countries across the world, including Visa International, the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cadbury and the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games. She was Head of PR and Media during London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In the run up to the Sydney 2000 Games Jackie created and directed communications campaigns for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, including the Olympic Torch Relay, the Ticket Marketing Programme, the Volunteer Recruitment Programme and the National Education Programme. She also directed communication leveraging programmes for some of the leading sponsors of the Games including Westpac Banking Corporation, AMP, Cadbury, Samsung, Coca-Cola and Swatch.
For the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games Jackie directed the communications, marketing and media relations programme as well as issues management for the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games in the UK. She has also created communication strategies for the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Doha 2006 Asian Games Committee.
James Bulley, Director of Venues and Infrastructure
James is responsible for preparing the venues for 2012 and for venue operations at Games-time. During the London 2012 bid, he was responsible for legacy strategy and venue planning.
James has over 15 years experience in sports venue design, construction and operation. He has been a partner of Drivers Jonas property consultancy for the last eight years, where he was a founding member of DJ Sport, providing specialist property advice to the sport industry.
He worked on the new Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica for Euro 2004 in Portugal, the ExCeL exhibition centre in London and the Ricoh Arena in Coventry before joining the London 2012 bid team in October 2003.
Sebastian Coe, Chair
Sebastian Coe is Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), having previously been Chairman of the London 2012 bid company.
Seb is a double Olympic Champion and 12-time world record holder in Athletics. He won gold in the 1500m and silver in the 800m at both the Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 Games. He retired from competitive athletics in 1990 and became a Conservative MP and Private Secretary to William Hague. In 2002 he was made a Peer – Lord Coe of Ranmore. He received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.
Seb is also a Vice President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Chairman of the Ethics Committee at FIFA, and a director and controlling shareholder of The Complete Leisure Group plc.
Paul Deighton, Chief Executive Officer
Paul became Chief Executive Officer of LOCOG in April 2006.
His job is to lead the LOCOG team to deliver all operational plans according to the terms of the Host City Contract signed with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is in charge of the day-to-day operations of LOCOG, from raising the £2 billion budget from the private sector to working closely with the Olympic Delivery Authority to ensure the Olympic Park venues and other new infrastructure are delivered on time and meet requirements for a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Paul also leads LOCOG’s relationships with key stakeholders including the Government and all its agencies, the Mayor of London, the British Olympic Association, the British Paralympic Association and other organisations with an interest in the Games.
Prior to joining LOCOG, Paul was European Chief Operating Officer for Goldman Sachs, and a member of its European Management Committee. During his 22-year career with the firm Paul held a number of client facing and management roles and was made a partner in 1996. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, Paul lives in London with his wife and two sons.
Sue Hunt, Director for Strategy and Programme Management
Sue joined LOCOG after 20 years with Goldman Sachs, most recently as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer for the European Special Situations Group. While she was there, she sponsored a number of diversity initiatives and received a Global Leadership and Diversity Award. She was also on the board of their Business School and a patron of Community Teamworks - Goldman Sachs’ programme of activities in the community.
Sue trained as an accountant with KPMG and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
She is involved with a number of charities, including being a member of the Finance and Legal Committee of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and a ‘Changemaker’ with Working Families.
Debbie Jevans, Director of Sport
Debbie’s responsibility as Director of Sport is to deliver the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sports events as well as the medical and anti-doping programmes. She will also ensure that the needs of the athletes and the NOCs and NPCs are met. She served as Director of Sport during the London 2012 bid, where she was responsible for compiling the venue strategy and gaining sign off from all the international federations.
Debbie was an international Tennis player representing Great Britain and competing at the four grand slams. Following her Tennis career she became a consultant to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and then worked full-time at the ITF to oversee the return of Tennis as an Olympic sport and run the Women’s tennis department.
In 1990 she became General Secretary of the ITF and was responsible for setting up the worldwide anti-doping programme and delivery of the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Tennis events. She has sat on various IOC working groups such as women in sport and the board of the WTA tour and is a non-executive Member of the Committee of the All England Club.
Terry Miller, General Counsel
Terry heads a legal team responsible for providing advice on all aspects of LOCOG’s operations, including how to meet the terms of the Host City Contract with the IOC, implementation of sponsorship and supply contracts and protection of the London 2012 brand.
Before joining LOCOG in October 2006, Terry spent seventeen years at Goldman Sachs, where she was a partner and served as International General Counsel of Goldman Sachs International. Before that, she was a partner in the law firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, specialising in matters relating to investment companies. She began her career with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she was a Branch Chief in the Enforcement Division.
In 2006, Terry was selected as Legal Week’s General Counsel of the Year.
Sir Keith Mills, Deputy Chair
Sir Keith Mills is Deputy Chair of LOCOG. He became the International President and Chief Executive Officer of the London 2012 bid company in 2003, and was knighted in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.
Sir Keith founded Air Miles International Group BV in 1988 to develop the Air Miles programme. Until December 2007 he was also Chairman of Loyalty Management Group Ltd (the company which owns and manages the Nectar programme in the UK and licenses Air Miles programmes internationally). He is actively involved with charities including Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Cancerbackup.
His sporting interests include being Team Principal and shareholder of Teamorigin™, the British team that will take part in future America's Cup sailing events, and a member of the board of directors of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
Bill Morris, Director of Culture, Ceremonies and Education
Bill is responsible for all the London 2012 ceremonies including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the Torch Relay. He is also in charge of the Cultural Olympiad, the London 2012 Education programme and the network of Live Sites being established around the UK.
He joined from the BBC where he worked in radio and TV production and later as a manager. Most recently, as Project Director Live Events, he was responsible for many of the BBC’s major events. These include the ‘BBC Music Live’ Festival, the annual ‘BBC Proms in the Park’, the Olympic Torch Relay Concert in London’s Mall and The Queen’s Concerts at Buckingham Palace (for which he was awarded the “LVO” in The Queen’s Jubilee Honours List). He also coordinated broadcast live events across a number of BBC outlets including, in summer 2005, “Live 8”.
Bill served on the Radio Academy’s Council from the early 1990s and as Chair from 1998-2001. He was made a fellow in July 2001. He is a member of the board of governors of Legacy Trust UK, a charitable trust set up in 2006 to deliver a range of cultural and sporting initiatives throughout the UK.
Jean Tomlin, Human Resources (HR) Director
Jean is the HR Director for The London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Prior to joining London 2012, she was an advisor to the BBC and Group HR Director at Marks & Spencer plc. Previous roles include HR Director of Egg plc, Sales and Operations Director of Prudential Direct. She had a classic foundation to her career as a graduate trainee at Ford, starting in personnel, training and labour relations.
Jean has held a number of non-executive roles, including being a Board member of the Greenwich Healthcare Trust and the Student Loans Company. A member of the Qualifications and Curriculum Advisory Board, the Race Relations Advisory Group, a Commissioner for Judicial Appointments and a Trustee of CIDA (a South African self-funding university).
Jean is also a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a member of the CIPD Enterprise Board.
Chris Townsend, Commercial Director
Chris is responsible for all forms of revenue generation and marketing including domestic sponsorship, ticket marketing, merchandising and agreeing with the IOC LOCOG’s share of worldwide broadcast rights and the share of the worldwide TOP sponsorship programme.
Prior to London 2012, Chris joined Transport for London (TfL) in 2003 as Group Marketing Director. He was responsible for a number of high profile award winning advertising campaigns including the “Sarah Rivers” road safety campaign and launched the Oyster card, which now has 6m active users. He re-negotiated the London Underground advertising contract with Viacom worth £1.2bn.
Prior to TfL Chris joined Telewest in 1999 as Director of Interactive TV and E-Commerce where he was responsible for the planning, implementation and marketing of all content on the Telewest Digital TV and Blue Yonder platforms. This included completing 120 interactive TV and Broadband commercial contracts.
Prior to Telewest Chris was Customer Marketing Director at BSkyB from 1992 – 1995, where he was responsible for growing the customer base from 250k to 3.5m customers and launched the Sky payTV channels including Sky Sports & Sky Movies. Chris was promoted to Marketing Director BSkyB Digital from 1995-1998 where he developed and implemented the Sky digital marketing strategy, the Sky electronic Programme Guide and Sky Interactive. The development of Sky Interactive included substantial commercial deals in excess of £500m.
Before joining BSkyB in 1992 Chris had worked at DMB&B, a worldwide top 5 Advertising Agency and the BBC in Senior Director Roles.
Charles Wijeratna, Director of Commercial Negotiations
Charlie is responsible for LOCOG’s complex commercial negotiations. He is currently managing the partnership sales and negotiations.
Charlie was part of the London 2012 bid company from the start. As the Commercial and Legal Director, he managed all the commercial and legal aspects of the bid from set-up through transition to LOCOG.
Charlie previously worked in sports television for Sky TV, as a lawyer with Clifford Chance and as an investment banker with Kleinwort Benson.
Neil Wood, Chief Financial Officer
Neil Wood is the Chief Financial Officer of LOCOG.
He is a partner in the accountancy and consulting firm Deloitte and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Neil was awarded an MBE in the 2006 New Year's Honours list for his services to the London 2012 bid.
Jackie has designed and directed communication, media and sponsorship programmes for some of the world's biggest brands and events in countries across the world, including Visa International, the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cadbury and the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games. She was Head of PR and Media during London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In the run up to the Sydney 2000 Games Jackie created and directed communications campaigns for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, including the Olympic Torch Relay, the Ticket Marketing Programme, the Volunteer Recruitment Programme and the National Education Programme. She also directed communication leveraging programmes for some of the leading sponsors of the Games including Westpac Banking Corporation, AMP, Cadbury, Samsung, Coca-Cola and Swatch.
For the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games Jackie directed the communications, marketing and media relations programme as well as issues management for the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games in the UK. She has also created communication strategies for the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Doha 2006 Asian Games Committee.
James Bulley, Director of Venues and Infrastructure
James is responsible for preparing the venues for 2012 and for venue operations at Games-time. During the London 2012 bid, he was responsible for legacy strategy and venue planning.
James has over 15 years experience in sports venue design, construction and operation. He has been a partner of Drivers Jonas property consultancy for the last eight years, where he was a founding member of DJ Sport, providing specialist property advice to the sport industry.
He worked on the new Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica for Euro 2004 in Portugal, the ExCeL exhibition centre in London and the Ricoh Arena in Coventry before joining the London 2012 bid team in October 2003.
Sebastian Coe, Chair
Sebastian Coe is Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), having previously been Chairman of the London 2012 bid company.
Seb is a double Olympic Champion and 12-time world record holder in Athletics. He won gold in the 1500m and silver in the 800m at both the Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 Games. He retired from competitive athletics in 1990 and became a Conservative MP and Private Secretary to William Hague. In 2002 he was made a Peer – Lord Coe of Ranmore. He received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.
Seb is also a Vice President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Chairman of the Ethics Committee at FIFA, and a director and controlling shareholder of The Complete Leisure Group plc.
Paul Deighton, Chief Executive Officer
Paul became Chief Executive Officer of LOCOG in April 2006.
His job is to lead the LOCOG team to deliver all operational plans according to the terms of the Host City Contract signed with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is in charge of the day-to-day operations of LOCOG, from raising the £2 billion budget from the private sector to working closely with the Olympic Delivery Authority to ensure the Olympic Park venues and other new infrastructure are delivered on time and meet requirements for a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Paul also leads LOCOG’s relationships with key stakeholders including the Government and all its agencies, the Mayor of London, the British Olympic Association, the British Paralympic Association and other organisations with an interest in the Games.
Prior to joining LOCOG, Paul was European Chief Operating Officer for Goldman Sachs, and a member of its European Management Committee. During his 22-year career with the firm Paul held a number of client facing and management roles and was made a partner in 1996. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, Paul lives in London with his wife and two sons.
Sue Hunt, Director for Strategy and Programme Management
Sue joined LOCOG after 20 years with Goldman Sachs, most recently as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer for the European Special Situations Group. While she was there, she sponsored a number of diversity initiatives and received a Global Leadership and Diversity Award. She was also on the board of their Business School and a patron of Community Teamworks - Goldman Sachs’ programme of activities in the community.
Sue trained as an accountant with KPMG and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
She is involved with a number of charities, including being a member of the Finance and Legal Committee of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and a ‘Changemaker’ with Working Families.
Debbie Jevans, Director of Sport
Debbie’s responsibility as Director of Sport is to deliver the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sports events as well as the medical and anti-doping programmes. She will also ensure that the needs of the athletes and the NOCs and NPCs are met. She served as Director of Sport during the London 2012 bid, where she was responsible for compiling the venue strategy and gaining sign off from all the international federations.
Debbie was an international Tennis player representing Great Britain and competing at the four grand slams. Following her Tennis career she became a consultant to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and then worked full-time at the ITF to oversee the return of Tennis as an Olympic sport and run the Women’s tennis department.
In 1990 she became General Secretary of the ITF and was responsible for setting up the worldwide anti-doping programme and delivery of the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Tennis events. She has sat on various IOC working groups such as women in sport and the board of the WTA tour and is a non-executive Member of the Committee of the All England Club.
Terry Miller, General Counsel
Terry heads a legal team responsible for providing advice on all aspects of LOCOG’s operations, including how to meet the terms of the Host City Contract with the IOC, implementation of sponsorship and supply contracts and protection of the London 2012 brand.
Before joining LOCOG in October 2006, Terry spent seventeen years at Goldman Sachs, where she was a partner and served as International General Counsel of Goldman Sachs International. Before that, she was a partner in the law firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, specialising in matters relating to investment companies. She began her career with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she was a Branch Chief in the Enforcement Division.
In 2006, Terry was selected as Legal Week’s General Counsel of the Year.
Sir Keith Mills, Deputy Chair
Sir Keith Mills is Deputy Chair of LOCOG. He became the International President and Chief Executive Officer of the London 2012 bid company in 2003, and was knighted in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.
Sir Keith founded Air Miles International Group BV in 1988 to develop the Air Miles programme. Until December 2007 he was also Chairman of Loyalty Management Group Ltd (the company which owns and manages the Nectar programme in the UK and licenses Air Miles programmes internationally). He is actively involved with charities including Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Cancerbackup.
His sporting interests include being Team Principal and shareholder of Teamorigin™, the British team that will take part in future America's Cup sailing events, and a member of the board of directors of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
Bill Morris, Director of Culture, Ceremonies and Education
Bill is responsible for all the London 2012 ceremonies including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the Torch Relay. He is also in charge of the Cultural Olympiad, the London 2012 Education programme and the network of Live Sites being established around the UK.
He joined from the BBC where he worked in radio and TV production and later as a manager. Most recently, as Project Director Live Events, he was responsible for many of the BBC’s major events. These include the ‘BBC Music Live’ Festival, the annual ‘BBC Proms in the Park’, the Olympic Torch Relay Concert in London’s Mall and The Queen’s Concerts at Buckingham Palace (for which he was awarded the “LVO” in The Queen’s Jubilee Honours List). He also coordinated broadcast live events across a number of BBC outlets including, in summer 2005, “Live 8”.
Bill served on the Radio Academy’s Council from the early 1990s and as Chair from 1998-2001. He was made a fellow in July 2001. He is a member of the board of governors of Legacy Trust UK, a charitable trust set up in 2006 to deliver a range of cultural and sporting initiatives throughout the UK.
Jean Tomlin, Human Resources (HR) Director
Jean is the HR Director for The London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Prior to joining London 2012, she was an advisor to the BBC and Group HR Director at Marks & Spencer plc. Previous roles include HR Director of Egg plc, Sales and Operations Director of Prudential Direct. She had a classic foundation to her career as a graduate trainee at Ford, starting in personnel, training and labour relations.
Jean has held a number of non-executive roles, including being a Board member of the Greenwich Healthcare Trust and the Student Loans Company. A member of the Qualifications and Curriculum Advisory Board, the Race Relations Advisory Group, a Commissioner for Judicial Appointments and a Trustee of CIDA (a South African self-funding university).
Jean is also a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a member of the CIPD Enterprise Board.
Chris Townsend, Commercial Director
Chris is responsible for all forms of revenue generation and marketing including domestic sponsorship, ticket marketing, merchandising and agreeing with the IOC LOCOG’s share of worldwide broadcast rights and the share of the worldwide TOP sponsorship programme.
Prior to London 2012, Chris joined Transport for London (TfL) in 2003 as Group Marketing Director. He was responsible for a number of high profile award winning advertising campaigns including the “Sarah Rivers” road safety campaign and launched the Oyster card, which now has 6m active users. He re-negotiated the London Underground advertising contract with Viacom worth £1.2bn.
Prior to TfL Chris joined Telewest in 1999 as Director of Interactive TV and E-Commerce where he was responsible for the planning, implementation and marketing of all content on the Telewest Digital TV and Blue Yonder platforms. This included completing 120 interactive TV and Broadband commercial contracts.
Prior to Telewest Chris was Customer Marketing Director at BSkyB from 1992 – 1995, where he was responsible for growing the customer base from 250k to 3.5m customers and launched the Sky payTV channels including Sky Sports & Sky Movies. Chris was promoted to Marketing Director BSkyB Digital from 1995-1998 where he developed and implemented the Sky digital marketing strategy, the Sky electronic Programme Guide and Sky Interactive. The development of Sky Interactive included substantial commercial deals in excess of £500m.
Before joining BSkyB in 1992 Chris had worked at DMB&B, a worldwide top 5 Advertising Agency and the BBC in Senior Director Roles.
Charles Wijeratna, Director of Commercial Negotiations
Charlie is responsible for LOCOG’s complex commercial negotiations. He is currently managing the partnership sales and negotiations.
Charlie was part of the London 2012 bid company from the start. As the Commercial and Legal Director, he managed all the commercial and legal aspects of the bid from set-up through transition to LOCOG.
Charlie previously worked in sports television for Sky TV, as a lawyer with Clifford Chance and as an investment banker with Kleinwort Benson.
Neil Wood, Chief Financial Officer
Neil Wood is the Chief Financial Officer of LOCOG.
He is a partner in the accountancy and consulting firm Deloitte and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Neil was awarded an MBE in the 2006 New Year's Honours list for his services to the London 2012 bid.
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