Governance
The Partnership Brokers Association is registered in England and Wales as a non-profit organisation (a company limited by guarantee) and operates as a social business. We are an international, distributed organisation – aiming to be highly agile and responsive to changing global partnering needs and to keep our core expenditure to a minimum.
PBA draws on a growing number of trained partnership brokers located across the globe and working as PBA Associates to undertake a range of roles and responsibilities as our Ambassadors, Mentors, Trainers and Service Providers. We have no physical office, no full time staff and no employees, everyone in the core team (listed below) is an independent professional working with PBA on a part-time basis.
Board
PBA has recently moved to having a smaller Board ensuring close attention to PBA’s progress and sustainability, drawing together the widely-spread international and dispersed activities of the organisation and ensuring adherence to UK laws. The Board’s responsibilities include:
- Approval of annual business plan and long-term sustainability strategy
- Oversight of financial position, business plan delivery and compliance
- Overview of standards
- Appointment and oversight of the Stewardship Team
Current Board members:
Ingo Kumic (Australia) • Kathryn Taetzsch (Kenya) • Michelle Cheah (Australia)
We would like to acknowledge the important contribution to the development of PBA made by Greg Butler, our founding Board Chair, whose untimely death in January 2015 was a great loss.
Stewardship Team
- Lauren Hallett (Australia)
- Lola Gostelow (UK)
- Michelle Halse (Australia)
- Naina Shakya (Nepal)
- Rebecca Maurer (Australia)
Core Team
- Accreditation Manager – Kennedy Miruka (Kenya)
- Operations Manager & Association Coordinator – Marta Serafin (Poland)
- Training Portfolio Coordinator – Jean Ow-Yeong (Singapore)
Portfolio Leads
- Accreditation Programme – Judith Nichol (UK)
- Accreditation Co-Lead – Ros Tennyson (UK)
- Advanced Practice – Bulbul Baksi (India)
- Initiatives and Services – Lola Gostelow (UK)
- Operations – Naina Shakya (Nepal)
- Training – Michelle Halse (Australia)
Finance & Governance
- Bookkeeper – Hilda Paulo (UK)
- Finance & Business Adviser – Mike Patterson (UK)
Accreditation Panel
Responsible for standard setting, reviewing and examining those on the Accreditation pathway:
- Catriona Murray (Australia)
- Joanne Burke (USA)
- Ken Caplan (UK)
- Kwasi Boateng (Ghana)
- Mariana Merelo Lobo (The Netherlands)
- Marieke de Wal (The Netherlands)
- Rafal Serafin (Poland)
- Ros Tennyson – Chair (UK)
- Simon Milligan (The Netherlands)
- Surinder Hundal (UK)
- Trish Hall (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Communities of Practice
The PBA Communities of Practice draw together Associates involved in the development and delivery of specific areas of PBA’s work as Mentors, Trainers and Service Providers. Their Terms of Reference include:
- Carrying responsibility for shaping, delivering and scrutinising PBA activities
- Working closely on development with the PBA Stewardship Team
- Ensuring our work and materials remain at the leading edge as the global partnering environment responds to challenges and changes.
