Aileen Richards is a Welsh businesswomen, notable for becoming the first woman to join the board of the

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in 2015. She was appointed as President of the London-based Montgomeryshire Society in 2018. As a businesswoman, she worked for

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for 30 years, becoming Executive Vice President in 2012. Richards is a now an independent non-executive director on several boards, including

Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera (WNO) ( cy, Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru) is an opera company based in Cardiff, Wales; it gave its first performances in 1946. It began as a mainly amateur body and transformed into an all-professional ensemble by 1973. In its ...

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