Bala became Chairman in November 2002. He has around 20 years' professional experience in the private sector. Much of this has been at executive level of global telecommunications companies, including British Telecom, ECI Telecom and Interoute Telecommunications Ltd.

He has served on many public bodies. These include the South East Thames Regional Health Authority, Lewisham and North Southwark Health Authority, Lewisham Borough Council and the Inner London Education Authority. He lives in the borough of Lewisham and has two children and three grandchildren.

John has been the Chief Executive of the Anchor Trust since 1994. Anchor Trust is a leading not for profit provider of care, housing and support for older people in England. John is also a member of the NHS Modernisation Board.

He grew up in Canada, is a Lewisham resident and has previously worked for Lewisham Council with responsibility for social and health services and voluntary sector liaison.

Anthony has lived in the Borough most of his life and is pleased to be working with the Hospital that has cared for his family for many years. He has had a career in the Printing Industry and with Christies the Auctioneers in London and New York. He is a Director of Homepower Ltd. He hopes his commercial experience can help the Hospital during this period of change.

Anthony is a member of the Finance committee and Chairman of the Audit committee. He is married and has three children.

Anne Greenough is a paediatrician who trained at the University of Cambridge and Great Ormond Street Hospital. She currently directs the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit at King's College Hospital and provides tertiary neonatal care with Lewisham and the other acute Trusts in South East London. She is also the the Head of School of Medicine, King's College London. Of Lewisham Hospital, Anne Greenough says "It is a major centre of undergraduate teaching and training and is my local hospital".

Tim was Director of Strategy and Workforce at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and has been appointed as the Chief Executive at University Hospital Lewisham. His career has included a number of senior roles at both Guy's and St Thomas' including Director of Strategy and Workforce and Director of Personnel. During 2006 and 2007, Tim was acting Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust for two extended periods, including five months prior to the arrival of their current Chief Executive.

Claire joined the Trust as Director of Service Improvement & Operations in April 2006,and incorporated the Director of Nursing role in February 2007. Claire trained as a nurse in her native New Zealand and specialised in intensive care nursing. She has worked in the NHS since 1988 and has lived locally in Brockley for the past 11 years.

Joy's early career was in physiology and biochemistry, specialising in nutrition. After moving into education and then research, she took a masters degree in Information Science and later chartered as a Librarian. She worked for Mayday University Hospital, Croydon College and Croydon Health Authority, before joining University Hospital Lewisham in 1997. She was appointed Director of Knowledge Management in January 2002 and as Director of Knowledge, Governance and Communications in 2005. Joy has a daughter and a son.

Wendy Gay has worked in the NHS in human resources in SE London for 11 years, in primary care, mental health, community and acute settings. She has a background in employee relations and a particular interest in the management of diversity. As part of the Executive team, her key role at Lewisham is to ensure that the hospital has a workforce that has the skills to provide a quality service to patients.

She has lived in Lewisham for more than 20 years and has two children.

John joined the Trust in 2006 and brings 12 years experience as an NHS Finance Director. He was previously Deputy Chief Executive and Finance Director at the NHS National Clinical Assessment Authority and has also been Finance Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In addition, John has worked at the Department of Health, a Community Trust and in the private sector. He is a Certified Public Accountant (US) and has an MBA with a specialisation in Management Information Systems.