Ellen Donovan

Non-Executive Member – Quality and Performance Committee and Remuneration Committee

Ellen lives in Neath, a county borough in the south west of Wales. Ellen is an experienced Board Director with over 25 years commercial experience in the private sector. Her latter commercial roles were with Debenhams PLC (1998 – 2008) in roles as Trading Director – where she was responsible for the development of brands, products, and services, and as an Operations Director – where she led a workforce of over 5,000 staff. She followed this with working as a freelance consultant and executive coach (2010 – 2014) since when she has developed a portfolio of NED roles. Her current NED commitments are as Chair of the Remuneration committee, member of the Finance and People committee, and member of the Future workplace property committee for the Welsh Government Board (since 2018); NED of the Transport for Wales Steering Board (since 2019); NED of the Marie Curie advisory Board Wales (since 2019); and NED and Chair of the Remuneration committee for the Human Tissue Authority (since March 2021). Previous NED roles were with Qualifications Wales where she chaired the Remuneration committee; and as a member of the Resources committee (2015 – 2021); and with the Welsh Government Audit Committee (2014 – 2018) and Linc Cymru (2014 – 2018).