Staff

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  Robert Mitchell-Thain

  Robert Mitchell-Thain is the CEO of the PBC Foundation.  

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  Alan Sutherland

  Alan is The PBC Foundation's administrative cornerstone! Joining the Foundation as Administrator in February 2009, he works incredibly hard to ensure that everything runs smoothly within the office, and acts as first point of contact with our 10,000 members worldwide, and the public.  Other duties include distributing membership packs and information on PBC and the Foundation, dealing with accounts and payments, organising conferences and collating information for “The Bear Facts”.  He is also responsible for delegating tasks to our office volunteers, and ensuring that they are well looked after.  He loves the outdoors, and was instrumental in the organising of our PBC day climb up Ben Macdui. 

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  Linda Butler

  Linda commenced work with the PBC Foundation in January 2013 as Liaison Officer working 20-25 hours per week. Part of her role is liaising with our very hard working volunteers and supporting them in their work looking after local members. Linda keeps in regular contact with our Volunteers for anything they may need, even if that is just a chat. She works closely with Robert, our Development Officer, managing his diary, arranging his travel and hotel accommodation for the work he carries out with the Volunteers and members, organising venues for PMA seminars and Nurses in Practice events up and down the country. Always happy to be involved in fund raising events, Linda together with Alan, Rebecca and our member Roy Talbot participated in our Brew with a View, climbing the second highest mountain in the UK - Ben Macdui for National PBC Day. Linda loves walking but even she had to admit that this was on a different level from what she is used to! However, hers was an enormous sense of achievement to climb to the top, not to mention coming back down!

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  Jacqueline Sapsed

  Jacqueline joined the PBC foundation in August 2019 as the Trusts and Grants officer.

  After ten years in commercial banking she is excited for the new role within the charity sector.

  Her main focus will be to continue to source funding and grants, to ensure the Foundation can continue to provide its invaluable services to its members.