Co-Vice Chair
Menai has a portfolio career and is an award winning Chief Executive, Non-Executive Director and Independent Adviser.
She has fourteen years’ experience as a Chief Executive and recently won the IoD Wales Director of the Year Public and Third Sector Award 2024 in recognition of her leadership as CEO of LATCH Welsh Children’s Cancer Charity since July 2022. Until September 2021, Menai was Chief Executive of The Pituitary Foundation, a UK-wide award winning health charity, where she successfully led transformative change during her ten-year tenure, establishing the charity as leading in its field worldwide.
Menai is also an Independent Adviser to the Senedd Cymru Commission and is the Senior Independent Governor and Chair of the Governance and Nominations Committee at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Previously she has been a Trustee of organisations including ACEVO, Race Council Cymru and Daring to Dream.
She is a qualified Chartered Director, with a Postgraduate Certificate in Welsh Government and Politics and holds a Law Degree from Cardiff University. For the past twenty years Menai has contributed widely to civil society in Wales, and the UK, across numerous causes. A lifelong volunteer also she is passionate about social change, equality, learning and social justice.
Menai is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), the IoD and the Institute of Welsh Affairs. She is an Ambassador of IoD Wales and holds advisory appointments, including Chair of Social Leaders Cymru Programme 2023 – 25.
She is an advocate for inclusive leadership and has broad interests, networks and wide-ranging experiences across several disciplines and organisations. Menai spends time voluntarily mentoring and coaching others. In 2019 and 2021, Menai was awarded the CEO Today UK and Global Awards, for innovative and strong leadership.
Menai is a first language Welsh speaker. She has lived experience of being part of a minoritised community (LGBTQ+) and actively works to challenge inequalities. In 2023 she was awarded a Black History Wales Community Award for contributions to race equality and inclusion and in June 2024 she was named in The Pinc List as one of the top 40 influential LGBTQ+ people in Wales.