Giulio Codacci-Pisanelli

Chair of Trustees

Giulio Codacci-Pisanelli began his career in the finance and strategic planning departments of Olivetti and FIAT. He then moved to investment banking, working for primary institutions like Chase Manhattan, Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas on large capital market transactions, hostile take overs and IPOs. He has been an independent board member for a bank and a company producing aircraft components, with both roles involved strategic repositioning and restructuring including acquisitions and disposals of businesses.

Giulio has also been Professor of Corporate and Investment Banking at the Università di Bari (Italy), related to the postgraduate degree in Economics of Financial Markets and Intermediaries. He has tutored various students on their final dissertations. Giulio is now Charity Ambassador for The Norfolk Hospice for Palliative Care Tapping House. 

Giulio Codacci-Pisanelli has a personal connection to pancreatic cancer as he lost his wife Sarah to the disease in 2022.

Neville Menezes

Founding Trustee

Neville Menezes is a Consultant Pancreatico-biliary Surgeon and is one of the founder members and Trustees of Pancreatic Cancer Action. He is one of the medical advisors on the panel of doctors for ‘Pancreatic Cancer Action’. He is appointed as the Consultant HPB Surgeon for the Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire Cancer network, holding Consultant posts at The Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Guildford and Ashford & St. Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Chertsey Surrey.

His specialist surgical training was in the West of Scotland & The South Thames Deanery. He completed his FRCS from The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and thereafter pursued research & specialist training followed by an Intercollegiate FRCS (Gen. Surg.) in 2002.

His Pancreatico-biliary experience and research related to minimally invasive techniques for intractable pancreatic pain was acquired at the Lister Department of Surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary working with Professor CW Imrie and his Hepatobiliary experience was acquired at King’s College Hospital in London. His Laparoscopic Training was at the Minimal Access Therapeutic Training Unit (MATTU) in Guildford.

He strongly believes that any improvement in pancreatic cancer survival will be related to and as a direct consequence of early diagnosis which is also the primary aim of our charity ‘Pancreatic Cancer Action’.

He is a great advocate of on-site cytology during ERCP & EUS diagnostic techniques and offers it to all his patients diagnosed with pancreatic and biliary cancers.

Louise Lowman

Head of Marketing and Communications

I am responsible for the development and implementation of Pancreatic Cancer Action's marketing and campaign strategies, ensuring that they support the charity’s overall vision, engage more audiences and donors, and communicate the charity’s strategic objectives.

Raising the profile of the charity across media, external organisations and with influencers is a key part of my role.

I am brand manager, and work across the full spectrum of marketing and communications disciplines including media and public relations, internal comms, brand marketing, advertising, marketing, digital and social media, and the production of all marketing materials.

I also manage the talented marketing and communications team who deliver a first-class marketing service.

Describe yourself in 5 words:
Dedicated, passionate, caring, loyal and creative.

Why did you pick to work at PCA?
Having worked at one of the UK’s largest hospices for 9 years, and having lost my own dad to cancer, I have always been passionate about cause-related marketing. I have two friends whose dads have died from Pancreatic cancer in the last 10 years, so a job that enables me to help people survive this disease was an opportunity I simply could not miss.

As I learnt more about the charity, I was shocked at the statistics and this fueled my desire to work here even more.

I am incredibly proud to be part of the PCA family, of being able to make a real difference to people’s lives and to ultimately help shape the future of positive Pancreatic cancer outcomes.

What are your hobbies and interests
I love spending time with friends and family. I’m very much a cultural tourist and love travelling the world and discovering new places with my husband Tom. I enjoy photography, theatre, design, home interiors and shopping. I also love weekends away – even better if they come with a sea view and lots of seafood!

Ross Carter

Trustee

Mr. Ross Carter is a retired pancreatic surgeon based in the West of Scotland Pancreatic Unit in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He is both former Honorary Secretary of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and former Pancreatic Section of the British Society of Gastroenterology.

Aware of the advances in care and outcomes being driven through charities focused on many cancers, but with a clear absence of a UK pancreatic cancer charity, he became involved in the third sector during the formative years of PCRF, PCUK, and PCA; all based in the South East England.

With key differences between the National Health Service in England & Wales and that in Scotland, Mr. Carter recognised the need for a further pancreatic cancer charity; one focusing on the Scottish perspective. This charity could then implement core objective of raising awareness, advancing research, and improving healthcare standards for patients and carers, in the most effective way for Scotland; whilst working with sister charities on UK-wide projects.

To achieve this vision, along with co-founders Pamela Sinclair, Fred Carenduff, Graham Carson, Elspeth Cowan, Anne Ventisei, and Sarah Beveridge, Mr. Carter launched Pancreatic Cancer Scotland as a Registered Scottish Charity (No SC041740) on 12th November 2010.

Following the merger of PCA and PCS in 2020, given the shared objectives and ethos, he was delighted to become a Trustee of the combined UK charity.