Angharad Mair

Angharad Mair

Angharad Mair is a businesswoman and Welsh television presenter. She is the editor and lead presenter of the nightly S4C Welsh language news program, "Wedi 7." She is a director of Tinopolis, one of the UK's largest television production companies. Mair is Chairman Wales for Tinopolis and was a member of the management team that bought the company back from AIM with the help of private equity house Vitruvian.

After working for BBC Wales, Mair joined Llanelli-based independent television production company Tinopolis in 1990.

After a challenge from a colleague, Mair ran her first full marathon in New York city in 1991. She kept training and was eventually chosen for the Great Britain athletics squad for the 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece, where she came 23rd in the Women's Marathon in a time of 2:42:31. [citeweb|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=302192&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=262|title=The TV newsreader who ran a marathon and liked it so much that she raced in three more|author=Ian Wooldridge|publisher=Daily Mail|date=1997-08-07|accessdate=2008-05-09]

References

External links

* [http://www.tinopolis.com/WhoAreWe/Management/?pid=2&id=33 Angharad Mair profile at Tinopolis]
* [http://www.btinternet.com/~rob.frowen/presenters_m.html Angharad Mair profile at TV Ark]


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