Sebastian Coe – Chair 
Sebastian Coe is Chair of the Company, 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 and controlling shareholder of The Complete Leisure Group, a non-executive director of AMT-Sybex Group, and Chair of the Sport Honours Committee.

Sir Keith Mills – Deputy Chair
Sir Keith Mills is Deputy Chair of the Company and was appointed to the Audit Committee in May 2011. He became the International President and Chief Executive Officer of the London 2012 bid company in 2003, and is Chair of the International Inspiration Foundation which was established to deliver the bid promise to inspire young people around the world to choose sport. He 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 the Sported Foundation, which he chairs and which provides support for community sports projects. His sporting interests include the ownership of two yacht racing teams, and a member of the Board of Directors of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

HRH The Princess Royal
The Princess Royal is President of the British Olympic Association and a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1988.

The Princess has a very long standing interest in all equestrian matters. She won the individual European Eventing title in 1971 and was voted the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year. In 1976 she was a member of the British Eventing team at the Montreal Olympic Games.

She is President or Patron of around 230 organisations, including the Riding for the Disabled Association, the Scottish Rugby Union and the Royal Yachting Association (RYA).

Sir Charles Allen CBE
Sir Charles Allen is the Chair of LOCOG's Nations and Regions Group, responsible for bringing about the UK-wide benefits of the Games, and was appointed to LOCOG's Audit Committee in May 2011 and the Ceremonies Committee in July 2010. He is Chairman of the Join In Trust and was previously Vice-Chairman of the London 2012 bid company.

His business career ranges from steel to hotels. He is especially known for his contribution to the media industry, having played a key role in the development of ITV, EMI and Global Radio.

Charles chaired the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002. He is Chairman of Global Radio Group, Chairman of 2 Sisters Food Group and a member of the Boards of Directors of Virgin Media, Endemol and GET. He is also a Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs.

Charles has been Chairman of Granada and EMI Music, a member of the Board of Directors of Tesco plc, CEO of ITV and Chief Adviser to the Home Office.

Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari MBE
Muhammad Abdul Bari is a leading intellectual and activist within the British Muslim Community. He has served East London’s diverse communities in various capacities for three decades. Since 2002 he has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the East London Mosque (London’s first mosque which includes the London Muslim Centre) leading the institution to win the ‘Super Model Mosque Competition’ in 2009.

He is a founding member of The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO), a coalition of churches, mosques, and other civil society organisations working together to promote understanding and a safer, fairer and better governed society. Dr Bari was Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain from 2006 until 2010, where he worked tirelessly to have more young people take part in British life for the common good of all.

Dr Bari is a patron of the National Youth Agency, the Ramphal Centre and Anchor House. He served on the Good Childhood Inquiry Panel which was set up by the Children's Society in 2006, and is an Executive Committee member of Muslim Aid, a UK-based relief and development agency. He is a Trustee of London Catalyst and an advisor to the Centre for Public Policy Seminars.

Dr Bari is a parenting consultant and has written for various newspapers, journals and community publications, and is the author of 'Building Muslim Families', 'A Guide to Parenting', and 'Race, Religion and Muslim Identity in Britain'.

In recognition for his services to the community, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari was conferred an MBE in 2003, was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005 and an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London in 2008.

Sir Philip Craven MBE
Sir Philip Craven has been President of the International Paralympic Committee since 2001 and is also a member of the International Olympic Committee. In 2005 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Sir Philip Craven has been President of the International Paralympic Committee since 2001 and is also a member of the International Olympic Committee. In 2005 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

He is a five-time Paralympian in Wheelchair Basketball and Swimming, and was President of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation from 1988-2002.

In 2006 Sir Philip received the Juan Antonio Samaranch Disabled Athlete Award, recognising all he has done for the world of sport. Sir Philip is currently a Director of the BOA and Vice President of the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association.

He sat on the board of the London 2012 bid company. Sir Philip has also been awarded Honorary Degrees from several Universities for his services to Paralympic Sport and is the Patron of the English Basketball Fellowship.

Paul Deighton – CEO
Paul Deighton is the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. 

In this capacity, Paul is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Company.  He has a wide range of responsibilities which include establishing strong working relationships with stakeholders, the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Delivery Authority; overseeing recruitment and the annual budget; and providing leadership in the development of a variety of Olympic and Paralympic programmes, from sponsorship and marketing to ticketing and the Torch Relay.

Prior to joining London 2012,  Paul was the Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs in Europe, and a member of its European Management Committee. At Goldman Sachs he worked in a variety of management and client-facing roles for over 22 years, and was appointed a partner of the firm in 1996.

Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1983, Paul worked for both Security Pacific National Bank and Bank of America.  

Jonathan Edwards CBE
Jonathan Edwards is the Company's athlete representative on the Board, having played an important part in the success of the London 2012 bid as an Official Ambassador. He is Chair of the Athletes' Committee of the Board.

Jonathan was Olympic Champion in Triple Jump at the Sydney 2000 Games. He set the current world record for the event in 1995, and was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Jonathan is still involved with athletics as a member of the European Athletics Council, in an ambassadorial role with the IAAF, and chaired the group charged with establishing an Athletes Panel for UK Athletics. He is a director of the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, a trustee of the Newcastle United Football Foundation and a trustee and member of the Charity Committee of the Venture Partnership Foundation Ltd. He also presents on television for the BBC.

Jonathan is actively involved in a range of charities, in particular with AIDS orphans and an Outward Bound centre for groups of mixed abilities.

Tony Hall CBE
Tony Hall is the Chair of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Board which is a committee of the LOCOG Board. Tony became Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in April 2001.

Since that time, he has overseen a period of sound financial management providing a secure foundation enabling the breadth of artistic activities at the Royal Opera House. He has led the setting up of new initiatives to widen access to the Royal Opera House and its work, including free BP Summer Big Screens to venues throughout the UK.

Until 2001, Tony was Chief Executive BBC News and launched Radio 5 Live, Britain’s first 24 hour News and Sport Radio channel, BBC News 24, BBC News Online and BBC Parliament. At present, he is a member of the London Cultural Strategy Group, Deputy Chair of Channel 4 Television, a Trustee of the British Council and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. In 2005, Tony became a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and in February 2010 was appointed to the House of Lords.

Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt is the Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA).  Andrew joined  the BOA shortly after the Beijing Games in 2008 and was the Chef De Mission for Team GB at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games and has also been appointed as Chef De Mission for Team GB at the London 2012 Games.

Andrew has extensive Board experience across a range of service industries and prior to joining the BOA was most recently the Managing Director of Reliance Security Services - a £240m, 10,000 employee Security Services Specialist.

Andrew is passionate about sport and is a keen amateur sailor.

Justin King CBE
Justin King is the Mayor’s appointee to the Board, and is also a member of the Audit Committee. He has been Chief Executive of Sainsbury's since March 2004. Before joining Sainsbury's, he was Director of Food at Marks & Spencer and prior to that held senior positions at ASDA/Wal-Mart and was Managing Director of Haagen-Dazs UK. His early career was at Mars Confectionery and Pepsi International.

Justin is a member of the CBI President’s Committee and is a non-executive director of Staples Inc.

In October 2010 he was made a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group. In the Birthday Honours 2011 Justin was awarded a CBE.

Stephen Lovegrove
Stephen Lovegrove is the Government’s appointee to the Board, and is also a member of the Audit Committee. He is a Director-General of BIS and the Chief Executive of the Shareholder Executive, which was formed in 2003 to provide oversight of and create value through the Government’s remaining businesses and stakes, including the Royal Mail, the Ordnance Survey, the Royal Mint, the Met Office, Channel 4 and over twenty others.

The Shareholder Executive also provides corporate finance advice across Whitehall, works jointly with HM Treasury and Cabinet Office to oversee the Government’s Asset Management Programme and has recently taken responsibility for establishing the Green Investment Bank which will provide finance solutions to accelerate private sector investment in the UK’s transition to a green economy.

Previously, he spent ten years at Deutsche Bank, where he was the head of the European media team. During that time Stephen worked on a wide range of capital raisings, acquisitions and divestments in all sectors of the media industry. Before that, he spent five years as a strategic consultant.

Stephen worked with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport on the London 2012 bid and the BBC Charter Review. He is a Trustee of the Charities Aid Foundation.

Lord Moynihan
Lord Moynihan is Chairman of the British Olympic Association.

Lord Moynihan won a silver medal in Rowing at the Moscow 1980 Games. He was a Member of Parliament for ten years, where he served as Minister for Sport and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment from 1987 to 1990, and Minister for Energy from 1990 to 1992.

He is a Director of Rowan Drilling and a Director of Zeropex AS and Energreen AS.  He is Honorary President of British Water Ski. He has been Vice-Patron of the British Wind Energy Association and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs: Energy and Environment Programme Steering Committee. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee’s International Relations Commission, and served on the 2009 IOC Olympic Congress Editorial Committee, and the IOC 2016 Olympic Candidate Acceptance Working Group.

Lord Moynihan is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Olympic Committee and Chairman of its Youth Sport for All Commission, a member of the Association of National Olympic Committees and Chairman of its Special Commission for Collaboration between NOCs and Governments.

Adam Pengilly
Adam Pengilly was elected by the Vancouver Olympians onto the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission and then became an IOC Member, in February 2010.

Recently retired from competition (February 2012), Adam has been on Britain's Olympic Winter team on three occasions: initially as a coach for Bobsleigh, and then twice competing in the sport of Skeleton. He won the bronze medal at the European Championships in 2008, and was silver medalist at the World Championships in 2009.

Adam is a non-executive director of the British Olympic Association, is on the Foundation Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and was formerly a director and then Vice Chair of the British Athletes’ Commission, serving from 2005–2011. He has been representing athletes and their interests since 2003.

Tim Reddish OBE
Tim Reddish is the Chairman of the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and is the BPA’s appointee to the board.

Tim is a three-time Paralympian in Swimming and was honoured by his home town, Nottingham, in 2005 when he was given the Freedom of the City for services to disability sport. He was awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to disability sport.

Tim, who was the National Performance Director for British Disability Swimming from 2003 to May 2010, was responsible for leading the British team to success during the last two Paralympic Games. He has now taken on the role of Executive Director at British Disability Swimming.

Sir Craig Reedie CBE
Sir Craig Reedie is a member of the International Olympic Committee (since 1994) and is a member of its Executive Board. He serves on several different IOC Commissions.

Sir Craig retired as Chairman of the British Olympic Association in 2005, having played a key role in London's successful bid for the 2012 Games. He is a member of the LOCOG Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

Sir Craig is a director of the British Olympic Association and a member of the Executive Committee and Foundation Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency since 1999. He is also a Board member of the Olympic Lottery Distributor.

He played Badminton at national and international level from 1962 to 1970, before taking senior positions in the Scottish Badminton Union and later the International Badminton Federation, eventually becoming President in 1981. He was a member and Deputy Chairman of UK Sport from 1996 until 2002.

Martin Stewart
Martin became a member of LOCOG's Board of Directors in November 2006. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee.

He spent nine years at BSkyB plc, six of those as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board, and then spent two years at EMI plc in the same roles before spending nearly two years at Cableuropa in Spain as Director General. 

Martin is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of SIS Limited, a member of the Supervisory Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Kabel Deutschland Holding AG, and the Executive Chairman of Eurotaxglass Ltd. 

Sir Robin Wales 
Sir Robin Wales is the directly elected Labour Mayor of the London Borough of Newham, one of just 13 directly elected Mayors nationally. He served as the Leader of Newham Council from 1995 until his first Mayoral election in 2002. He was re-elected for a third term in May 2010 with an increased majority.

He was the chair of the Association of London Government (now London Councils) from 2000-2006 and was awarded a knighthood in the 2000 Queen’s Birthday Honours list in recognition of his service to local government.

A Chemistry graduate of the University of Glasgow, Robin worked for British Telecom before becoming Mayor, where he was responsible for developing credit and fraud management systems. He has extensive experience of working in IT, employee communications, customer services and logistics.

Currently Sir Robin serves as the Chair of the Company's Remuneration Committee and is chair of the six East London Host Boroughs, an organisation which represents the interests of those boroughs most affected by the Games. He also serves on the Board of the Olympic Park Legacy Company.

Neil Wood MBE
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.