Appointed in July 2000, Lord Burns (65) will stand down as Chairman after the Company’s AGM in July 2010. He is chairman of Abbey National Plc, Alliance & Leicester plc and of Channel 4 Television Corporation, and a Non-Executive director of Banco Santander and Pearson Group Plc. Formerly he was Chairman of the National Lottery Commission and of Marks and Spencer Group plc, and a Non-Executive Director of Legal & General Group Plc and The British Land Company Plc. A former Chief Economic Adviser and Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, he was made a life peer in 1998.

Appointed Managing Director in January 2005, Mr Annett (50) 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.

Appointed Finance Director of Glas Cymru in April 2000 and of Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water) in May 2001, Mr Jones (45) 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. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Principality Building Society, a Member of the Board of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and Deputy Chairman of The Prince’s Trust - Cymru.

Appointed Operations Director in July 2006, Mr Perry (47) 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. He is also a Director (representing Wales) at The Water Regulations Advisory Service, the national body specifying standards for materials and workmanship used in potable water supply.

Appointed a Non-Executive Director in March 2001. Mr Bryant (65) 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.

Appointed a Non Executive Director in July 2000, Mr Davies (65) is a former journalist whose career spanned both public and private sector broadcasting (including Controller of BBC Wales throughout the 1990s). He is Chairman of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and of Welsh National Opera, a member of the board of Wales Millennium Centre and a trustee of The Media Standards Trust. He is also a former Chairman of The Arts Council Wales.

Appointed a Non-Executive Director in March 2001, Dame Deidre (71) is Chairman of the BUPA Foundation, Chairman of the Public Inquiry into the outbreak of Clostridium difficile in hospitals in Northern Ireland and President of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. She is a past President of the British Medical Association and The Royal Society of Medicine, a former Chairman of the Commission for Health Improvement, and a former Chief Medical Officer for Wales. Dame Deidre was awarded the DBE in 1996 for services to medicine.

Appointed a Non-Executive Director in February 2001. Mr Hobson (61) is the Chairman of The Sage Group plc and Northern Foods Plc, and of Changing Faces – the UK charity that supports people who have disfigurements of the face or body. A Chartered Accountant, he was previously Group Finance Director of Legal & General Group Plc for fifteen years until his retirement in 2001.

Appointed a Non-Executive Director in October 2009, Professor Palmer (58) is Head of Profession for Epidemiology at the Health Protection Agency and is the Mansel Talbot Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Cardiff University. A fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians, he has been an influential figure in public health in Wales for over 25-years, including as Head of the Public Health Services Laboratory Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre in Wales. He has a long CV of previous public health professional functions and has written many books and peer reviewed papers.

Appointed a Non-Executive Director in June 2007. Mr Strachan (55) is a Non-Executive Director of Legal & General Group Plc, Care UK plc, JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust, the Financial Services Authority, Sarasin and Partners LLP and Social Finance Limited. He is a Visiting Fellow in risk and regulation at LSE. Former roles include: Chairman of the Audit Commission, a Non-Executive Director of the Bank of England, a Board member of Ofgem (the energy regulator), chairman of the charity RNID and Managing Director of Merrill Lynch.