Our Team

Dr. B. Lynn Beattie

Director & President

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Dr. Beattie has been President of the Board of Directors since 2013, when she retired from medical practice and the University of British Columbia (UBC). At UBC, she was the Founding Head & now Professor Emerita for the Division of Geriatric Medicine, and the Founding Medical Director for the Clinic for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders.

In 2020, Dr. Beattie was awarded the Order of Canada for her pioneering contributions to the field of geriatric medicine in Canada and abroad. In addition to her medical expertise, Dr. Beattie has a meaningful family history with Alzheimer disease.

Robert J. Hastings

Director & Vice-President

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Bob is a retired financial analyst. He is a past Chair of the Alzheimer Society of BC, and past director of the Alzheimer Society of Canada. He has long been a champion for funding research towards a cure for Alzheimer disease. His father was diagnosed with Young Onset Alzheimer disease in the early 1980’s, and he also had to witness the impact on the health of his mother as caregiver.

Pam Prior

Director, Treasurer & Secretary

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Pam is a Tax Partner with KPMG in Vancouver, B.C. She joined KPMG in 1986 and transferred into tax in 1990. Pam has focused on advising privately held businesses and their shareholders on a wide variety of issues including corporate and personal tax planning and compliance. She also has experience dealing with estate and will planning including the creation of family trusts and dealing with the 21 year deemed disposition rule. Pam also assists charities and non-profit organizations with their income tax issues including compliance filings, tax receipting issues and structuring tax efficient charitable donations. She has a family connection to Alzheimer’s disease.

James Bruce

Director

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Jamie is a Senior Advisor at Capital West Partners, a Vancouver-based investment banking firm. He has served as a director with public and private companies, crown corporations, and not-for-profit organizations. He is a mechanical engineer and CPA, CMA, with over 30 years‘ experience in corporate finance and investment banking.

Jamie entered the corporate finance and investment banking industry in the early 1980s, and worked at Pemberton Securities, RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities prior to joining Capital West. At TD Securities he was head of Investment Banking and Corporate Credit for British Columbia.

Dr. Dean Foti

Director

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Dr. Foti is a neurologist who has been on staff at Vancouver General Hospital since 1996. His practice is in Behavioural and General Neurology, with a focus on dementia and traumatic brain injury.

Originally from Ontario, Dr. Foti completed medical school training at McGill University in 1989. Gradually migrating westwards, he completed his residency in Neurology at the University of British Columbia, moving south to complete two years of fellowship training in Behavioural Neurology at UCLA. He holds the title of Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is active in the Clinical Trials program at the Clinic for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders at UBC Hospital.

Frank Schober

Director

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Jaime Stein

Director

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Jaime brings an extensive background in social media and content marketing in finance, government, professional sports, and hyper-growth technology businesses. He is currently the Head of Customer Success at BroadbandTV (BBTV). A journalist by training, Jaime was previously the Head of Social Media at Tangerine, where he led the social media component of the bank's award-winning brand transition from ING DIRECT to Tangerine. He also curated Canada’s top Twitter trend in 2011 (#GreyCup) as Head of Digital Media at the Canadian Football League, where he launched the League’s new content marketing strategy and official social media presence.

Passionate about building a better way, Jaime helped raise $12.5-million to establish Canada’s national public cord blood bank for the Canadian Blood Services campaign 'For All Canadians'.

Shiera Stuart

Director

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Bruce Shepherd

Director

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Bruce has spent his entire career in Media Sales and Marketing, and has spent the last 9 years at Corus Entertainment, Canada’s largest pure play media company. He has had considerable history as a volunteer, including being the Retail Chair for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, a member of the Downtown Vancouver Business Association, and working with BC Parkinson’s Society. Bruce, like many on the CLEAR Board, has family connections to Alzheimer’s making this such a passionate cause for both himself and his family.

Una de Boer

Director

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Una is a well-established marketing leader having enjoyed a broad international B2B career ranging from Professional Services to energy management SaaS. Una started out by running advertising campaigns, and then consulting on direct marketing best practices for the largest financial services providers in the UK. Since 2005, Una’s roles have involved building marketing teams to help organizations put customer understanding at their center and build meaningful brands.

Alongside helping CLEAR, Una is Chief Marketing Officer for WhiteWater West Industries, the leading designer and manufacturer for the waterpark industry globally. As a literature graduate and MBA, Una believes that Marketing merges storytelling, psychology, data analysis and common commercial sense to simplify ‘why?’ for customers – or in this case potential donors!

Eleanor Fast

Executive Director

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Eleanor is an experienced charitable sector executive and has led diverse national organizations including Equal Voice, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and Nature Canada. Before taking on leadership roles she worked on science policy issues for the Council of Canadian Academies, as a science and technology analyst on Parliament Hill, and as head of the science and innovation team at the British High Commission in Ottawa.

In her spare time, Eleanor enjoys exploring trails on bike-packing adventures as well as time in the pool as part of a masters swim club.

Our Team

Dr. B. Lynn Beattie

Robert J. Hastings

Pam Prior

James Bruce

Dr. Dean Foti

Frank Schober

Jaime Stein

Shiera Stuart

Bruce Shepherd

Una de Boer

Eleanor Fast

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