Committee PWYLLGOR 2024/2025

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Aileen, a former President of The Montgomeryshire Society, was elected as Chairperson in 2021.  

Aileen grew up outside Cardiff but her roots are in Montgomeryshire. She is a now an independent non-executive director on several boards, including Welsh National Opera and is notable for becoming the first woman to join the board of the Welsh Rugby Union in 2015.

As a businesswoman, she worked for Mars, Incorporated for 30 years, becoming Executive Vice President in 2012.

    Peter was born and brought up in Liverpool and has always been a frequent visitor to Montgomeryshire and his farming cousins.  His doctor father Nicholas was a son of the county and served as High Sheriff in 1968.

Peter is an agent and producer in the entertainment industry, working in theatre for 10 years before setting up agency PBJ Management and TV company Tiger Television in 1987. Clients include Rowan Atkinson and Lenny Henry and numerous credits  (Mr Bean, The Vicar of Dibley , Billy Elliot.)

PBJ chaired Comic Relief (’98- ’13) and Save the Children UK (’15-’19) and was on the Boards of the National Theatre, the Liverpool and Oxford Playhouses, RADA and a Governor at Rugby School. He is a Trustee of mental health charity the Prudence Trust and a Deputy Lieutenant in Oxfordshire. He is patron of the Llanfyllin Music Festival.

Peter was awarded the CBE in 2014 for services to charity and the television industry, alongside the BAFTA Special Award and Royal Television Society Lifetime Achievement Award.