Staff Team
We are staffed by a small dedicated team who support members and officers to deliver our vision and strategy.
Jane Pritchard, Chief Executive
Appointed in November 2019, Jane has overall responsibility for the team and specific responsibility for governance and strategy, finance and administration, stakeholder management, public affairs and industry partnership.
Christina Petzny, PA to CEO
Christina joined the team in February 2020. Christina provides personal assistance to the Chief Executive, administrative support for CEO projects, co-ordination of Council & Executive Committee meetings and the Remuneration & Nominations Committees.
Mike Lester, Membership Manager
Mike has been with us since April 2008, and is now responsible for membership retention and recruitment, delivery of member services, national and regional committee meetings, training events & workshops, regional events, membership of other bodies, accreditation services (such as the ACS, CSci and EuSpLM), annual general meetings, trade union meetings and service and membership information and resources.
Christine Hall-Shelton, Membership Assistant
Christine joined us in August 2015, and now supports the Membership Manager with membership maintenance and enquiries, the running of national and regional committee meetings, maintenance of our digital records, training events & workshops around the UK, accreditation services and administrative support.
Cheryl Taylor, Operations Manager
Cheryl joined us in February 2008 became our Operations Manager in 2020. She has responsibility for financial management and recording, invoices and payments, credit control, management accounts, tax affairs, human resources, property management, supplier management, cost control as well as reporting & returns to external bodies and management of annual accounts and audit.
Eleanor Dalzell, Operations Assistant
Eleanor joined the team in December 2019, to assist with finance administration, facilities management and general administration.
Dragana Landup-Horgan, Publications Administrator
Dragana provides the administrative and project support to the Committees and operations for our scientific journal, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry and our patient resource, Lab Tests Online-UK.
Sakinah Williams, Office Administrator
Currently on maternity leave, Sakinah provides administrative support to the team.