The Board of Directors is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and for reviewing operational and financial performance. It currently comprises 3 Executive Directors and 6 Non-Executive Directors (including the Chairman of the Board). They are:
Lord Burns Chairman
Appointed Non-Executive Chairman in July 2000. Lord Burns (63) is Chairman of Abbey National Plc and Marks and Spencer Group Plc and a Non-Executive Director of Banco Santander Central Hispano SA, and Pearson Group Plc. He was made a life peer in 1998, and is a former Chief Economic Advisor and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury. He is also Chairman of the Governing Body of the Royal Academy of Music and former Chairman of the National Lottery Commission.
Nigel Annett Managing Director
Appointed Managing Director in January 2005. Mr Annett (48) has been an Executive Director of Glas Cymru since April 2000, and of Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) since May 2001. He was previously a Director of Welsh Water between 1992 and 2000, prior to which he held various investment banking positions with Schroders, County Natwest and Wasserstein Perella.
Chris Jones Finance Director
Appointed Finance Director of Glas Cymru in April 2000 and of Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) in May 2001. Mr Jones (43) was previously Director of Regulation of Welsh Water and South Wales Electricity Plc. Before joining Welsh Water in 1995, he was a Director at National Economic Research Associates and, prior to that, worked for HM Treasury on nationalised industries and privatisation. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Principality Building Society and a Member of the Board of the Institute of Welsh Affairs.
Peter Perry Operations Director
Appointed Operations Director in July 2006. Mr Perry (45) has a civil engineering background and was formerly the Chief Operating Officer for United Utilities Operational Services (UUOS), having previously been the Operations Director for UUOS with responsibility for the operational contract with Welsh Water and UUOS's water interests in Scotland and Ireland. Prior to joining UUOS he worked for Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) for over 17 years.
John Bryant Non-Executive Director
Appointed a Non-Executive Director in March 2001. Mr Bryant (63) is a former Chief Executive of British Steel and, until December 2000, was Joint Chief Executive of Corus Plc. He is a Non-Executive Director of Costain Group Plc, and was a Non-Executive Director of Bank of Wales Plc between 1996 and 2001.
Geraint Talfan Davies Non-Executive Director
Appointed a Non Executive Director in July 2000. Mr Davies (63) is a former journalist whose career spanned both public and private sector broadcasting including Controller of BBC Wales throughout the 1990s and later as a member of the Radio Authority representing Wales. He is also Chairman of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and a member of the BT Wales Advisory Forum, and former Chairman of The Arts Council Wales (2003-2006).
Dame Deidre Hine Non-Executive Director
Appointed a Non-Executive Director in March 2001. Dame Deidre (69) is Chairman of the BUPA Foundation and the Royal Society of Medicine Press Board, a member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission and President Elect of the British Medical Association. She is a former Chairman of the Commission for Health Improvement, a former President of The Royal Society of Medicine and a former Chief Medical Officer for Wales. Dame Deidre was awarded the DBE in 1996 for services to medicine.
Tony Hobson Non-Executive Director
Appointed a Non-Executive Director in February 2001. Mr Hobson (59) is the Chairman of Northern Foods Plc and Sage Group Plc and a Non-Executive Director of HBOS Plc. He is a Chartered Accountant and was the Group Finance Director of Legal & General Group Plc between 1987 and 2001, and the Senior Independent Director of Thames Water Plc at the time of its acquisition by RWE in 2000.
James StrachanNon-Executive Director
Appointed a Non-Executive Director in June 2007. Mr Strachan (53) is a Non-Executive Director of Legal & General Group Plc, Care UK Plc and Social Finance Limited. He is also a member of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England. He was previously Chairman of the Audit Commission (2002-2006) and a Board Member of Ofgem, the energy regulator. He is Chairman of RNID (the disability charity), where he was previously Chief Executive, a Trustee of Somerset House, and he is a former Disability Rights Commissioner and Trustee of the charity Save the Children. Earlier in his career Mr Strachan was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch for 13 years, latterly as a Board member of Merrill Lynch International.
Bob AylingNon-Executive Director
Appointed a Non-Executive Director in April 2008, Mr Ayling (61) is Chairman of Holidaybreak plc and the International Dispute Resolution Centre and Vice-Chairman of Dyson Limited. A solicitor by profession, with 20 years in the City of London and as a senior government legal advisor at the Department of Trade and Industry, he was Managing Director and Chief Executive of British Airways plc from 1993 to 2000, and is a former non Executive Director of Royal & Sunalliance Insurance Group.
Further information
Report and Accounts 2007
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Annual Report of Quality and Environment Committee
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