The People Behind Pancreatic Cancer Action

Our Founder and Chief Executive

Having been involved in setting up the very first Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Week in 2009, Ali Stunt, a rare five year + survivor of this disease, decided it was time to step up the levels of awareness for pancreatic cancer and so founded Pancreatic Cancer Action to do just that. She is passionate about improving early diagnosis for pancreatic cancer so that others can have the same outcome she has had. Simply, she wants more people diagnosed in time for surgery – currently the only potential for a cure

Along with Ali and the dedicated Board of Trustees,  Pancreatic Cancer Action has the support of many leading clinicians and researchers in the pancreatic cancer arena along with others whose lives have been touched by pancreatic cancer in some way.

Our PatronS

Acclaimed British and Hollywood actor, Hugh Grant became our Patron in September 2011.

Joanna David

British actress, Joanna David became our patron in December 2012.

Joanna is one of the UK’s most cherished actresses and has been a familiar face on our TV screens as well as in the theatre and in film for many years.  Numerous television credits include ‘Sense and Sensibility’, ‘Rebecca’, ‘The Forsyte Saga’,  ‘Inspector Morse’,  ‘Midsomer Murders’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’, ‘Dalziel and Pascoe’, , ‘A Touch of Frost’ plus many more.

Joanna’s film credits include ‘One Plus One’, ‘The Soul Keeper’, ‘Secret Friends’, ‘Rogue Trader’ and ‘One of those Days’. Joanna is also a highly experienced broadcaster for BBC Radio and has also recorded many novels for audio cassette/CD.

Joanna is married to actor Edward Fox and her son Freddie Fox and daughter Emilia Fox are also well-known actors.

Our Chair of Trustees

Brian Stevenson is a recently retired Corporate Banker who has spent his career in the UK, USA and the Far East looking after the needs of some of the UK’s largest corporates and financial institutions. He has been a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Executive and a Chairman of various banking businesses over the past 10 years.

Having recently suffered the loss of a close work colleague to Pancreatic Cancer, Brian is motivated to try and help to raise awareness and funding in order to improve the survival rate of patients. In addition to his role at Pancreatic Cancer Action, Brian is a non-executive Director of The Agricultural Bank of China (UK) Ltd and an advisor to WorldPay Ltd.

He is married to Jeanette, has two boys and lives in Haslemere, Surrey. As a keen cyclist, Brian is also helping to raise funds through a Group known as ‘The Corporate Dynamos’.

Phil Stunt – Trustee

Phil Stunt is the Senior Vice President Operations and Technology for First Data’s international businesses, and long suffering husband of our CEO and Founder, Ali Stunt.

Phil is responsible for overseeing First Data’s technology and operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as the Asian geographies. He is tasked with transforming the delivery of First Data’s solutions for electronic payments.

Prior to joining First Data in December 2009, Phil spent five years working for Computer Associates, where he was responsible for running the internal infrastructure outside of North America.

Phil is a Non Executive Director of Molten Consulting, a transformational change consultancy specialising in the energy sector.

Earlier in his career, he was an Associate Partner at Accenture, focusing on transformational IT and supply chain initiatives within the communications and high-tech sector. Phil began his career with Royal Dutch Shell, working in a variety of downstream oil engineering, trading and operations roles in places including Australia, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the UK.

Phil attended the Loughborough University of Technology (UK) earning BSc in physics and electronic engineering.

 Our Board of Trustees

• Brian Stevenson – Chair of Trustees
• Helen Matthews – Secretary & Events Management
• Jane McCue  - Information Manager
• Neville Menezes – Consultant Pancreatic Surgeon
• Phil Stunt

Media Enquiries

All media enquiries should be directed to Ali Stunt. Email: ali@panact.org or call 07747017232

Medical Advisors

• Mr Ross Carter – Glasgow Royal Infirmary (surgical)
• Dr. Seb Cummins – Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford (clinical oncology)
• Mr Giuseppe Kito Fusai, University College London Medical School, Royal Free Hospital London(surgical)
  
• Mr Hemant Kocher – Barts and the London Hospital (surgical)
• Mr Neville Menezes – Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford (surgical)
• Professor Gary Middleton – Birmingham University (medical oncology)
• Mary Phillips – Royal Surrey County Hospital (Hepato-pancreatico-biliary Specialist Dietitian)
• Dr. Sheela Rao – The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (medical oncology)
• Dr. Kevin Shotliff – Chelsea & Westminster Hospital & Brompton Hospital. Royal Marsden Hospital (endocrinology)

Our Partners

We would like to thank all the UK Associates at Lockton, the world’s largest privately owned, independent insurance brokerage firm for voting in Pancreatic Cancer Action as their Charity of the Year for 2013.

We are delighted that Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate HR has chosen Pancreatic Cancer Action to be their joint charity of the year 2012/13

The team at Molten Technologies lost a dear colleague to pancreatic cancer in early 2011 and PCA is now Molten’s charity partner.