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Executive Team

The Royal BC Museum operates in five core business areas. The directors of these areas, along with RBCM CEO Jack Lohman, make up the Museum's executive team.

Jack Lohman - CEO

Camille Cuthill - Director, Development

Gary Mitchell - Director, Collections, Research and Access Services

Angela Williams - Director, Business and Operational Services

Tim Willis - Director, Exhibitions and Visitor Experience

Faye Zinck - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer

Jack Lohman
Chief Executive Officer

(250) 953-4015

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"We have built a solid foundation, and now have great potential for developing the Royal BC Museum as a unique cultural asset across the world. Its extraordinary location, collections and expertise provide an opportunity to push out onto a national and international arena and share the important stories it tells."

Jack Lohman brings extensive experience working with renowned, international cultural institutions and a wide body of knowledge on museum and archives studies. Prior to joining the Royal BC Museum in 2012, Jack was the Director of the Museum of London, a post he held since 2002. There he led the £20million ($32 million Cdn) redevelopment of the Museum’s Galleries of Modern London which opened in May 2010. From 1999-2002, Jack was the CEO of Iziko Museums of Cape Town, an organization consisting of 15 national museums including the South African Museum, the South African Maritime Museum and the South African National Gallery.

Jack Lohman was educated at the University of East Anglia where he studied History of Art. He was awarded a scholarship to read Architecture at the Freien Universitat in Berlin and later obtained an MA at the University of Manchester. He went on to win a British Council Fellowship Award to study Architecture and Conservation in Warsaw, Poland. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Westminster and London (PUNO).

Jack is Chairman of the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland and an advisor to the State of Qatar on the Mshereib Heritage Quarter. He is Professor in Museum Design and Communication at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Norway and Editor in Chief of UNESCO’s publication series Museums and Diversity. He is former Chairman of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) UK 2002-2008, and a former board member of the UK National Commission for UNESCO Culture Committee 2002-2010.

Camille Cuthill
Director, Development
(250) 387-2135

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"I am deeply passionate about the power of philanthropy and its ability to truly transform lives and organizations. It brings me immense joy to further that culture in advancing the mission of the Royal BC Museum - to explore and preserve British Columbia’s human history and natural history; to inspire curiosity and wonder; and to share our story with the world.”

Camille Cuthill is a senior fund raising professional with more than twenty-five years’ experience in the health care and education sectors. She managed or directed fund raising programs and campaigns for: B.C.’s Children’s Hospital Foundation; BC Cancer Foundation; St. Vincent’s Hospital Foundation, Vancouver; Royal University Hospital Foundation, Saskatoon; and Bissell Centre, Edmonton, among others. Most recently, as Director, Special Projects with the University of Victoria, Cuthill provided strategic fundraising leadership and management for the institutional priorities. Her work included capital projects as well as endowed chairs, professorships, lectureships and student awards, with goals ranging from $1.5 to $30 million. As the Executive staff member responsible for Development, Cuthill leads her dedicated team in supporting the long-term vision and growth of the Royal BC Museum.

As a volunteer, Cuthill has been involved with several health care, arts and community organizations at both governing board and committee levels, as well as serving on what was the Vancouver Community College’s Advisory Committee for the Fundraising Management Certificate Program, National Philanthropy Day 2007 - 2009 and the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, Vancouver Island Roundtable Board of Directors 2007 - 2010. In her role of adult trainer and facilitator, she has worked with a broad range of boards of directors, fund raising professionals and community organizations. She is currently a member of Canadian Association of Gift Planners and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Gary Mitchell
Director, Collections, Research and Access Services

(250) 387-2992

“There is nothing more important than our stewardship of the provincial collections; how we acquire, preserve and make accessible the “BC Story” – the natural history and human history of our province. I want to leave my successors a provincial collection that reflects British Columbia’s communities and that is open and accessible to British Columbians everywhere.”

As Gary Mitchell sees it, the true value of the provincial collection (its historical documents, artifacts and specimens) – the story of British Columbia, its people and places – can only be realized through making the collection more open and more accessible and bringing it forward into context of our daily lives. Traveling in Europe years ago, Mitchell realized people gained their sense of identity in large part by connecting with their history. He applied that understanding by earning a master’s degree in archival studies and becoming a manager with the BC Archives in the late 1980s. Mitchell excelled, becoming Deputy Provincial Archivist in 1991 and being named Provincial Archivist in 1998. With the 2003 integration of the BC Archives and the Royal BC Museum, Mitchell has led successful initiatives to harmonize public access to archive holdings and museum collections through a new collections-management system and an enhanced Internet portal. As Director of Collections, Research and Access Services , Mitchell continues to strengthen the collection, oversee research projects into our human and natural history and make the collection evermore accessible.

Angela Williams
Director, Business and Operational Services

(250) 213-8007

"I love working with people, and at the RBCM, I’m part of an organization that is service-oriented, passionate about what we do, flexible and committed to sharing this province’s history with the world. That’s truly special.”

Angela Williams has spent nearly two decades improving organizations by putting their people first. Her work in the human resources field has been recognized through recognition from the BC Human Resource Management Association as a 2006 Award of Excellence finalist. Williams has pioneered new approaches to recruiting, training and retaining staff at the Royal BC Museum, and she has incorporated these strategies into the organization’s everyday operation. She oversees property management and site renewal, security services, admissions and customer service, volunteer services and, most recently, marketing and communications functions at the RBCM. Williams joined the corporation in 2003 after 14 years in human resources and information technology departments at three provincial ministries. She has received a masters-level certificate in leadership from Royal Roads University; is a designated Canadian Human Resource Professional (CHRP); completed a business diploma program at Camosun College; and studied Sciences (Math and Physics) and English at the University of Victoria. As the Executive leader responsible for human resources, Williams is exceedingly proud of the RBCM's achievement on being named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers and BC's Top 40 Employers for 2008; BC's Top 50 Employers for 2009; and again, one of Canada's Top 100 and BC's Top 55 Employers for 2010.

Tim Willis
Director, Exhibitions and Visitor Experience
(250) 387-2119

"Museums can change people’s lives by revealing worlds they never imagined. A powerful museum experience for a child can establish a sense of wonder that lasts a lifetime.”

Tim Willis was raised in the UK and obtained degrees in environmental design and architecture. Three decades ago, he moved to Canada, became an architect in Calgary and later worked as a planner of provincial historic sites. Willis spent 20 years with the Royal Alberta Museum, ultimately becoming its Director of Exhibits and Marketing. He led many successful major exhibition projects, developed a long-term facility master plan and headed a project to create a new visitor experience for the expanded museum during his tenure there. He moved to Victoria in 2006 to accept the position of Director of Exhibitions & Visitor Experience at the RBCM. Willis is married with a grown daughter. In his personal time he enjoys traveling to deserts and editing video productions. He sees museums as places that change lives... that take us out of the everyday and invite us form new awareness of the world and the people around us.

Faye Zinck
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer

(250) 387-2403

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“I love to learn and therefore change is part of my nature. With the changes at the RBCM, I have been able to use change management skills to assist in moving the RBCM towards a stronger entrepreneurial environment. There is always something new and exciting to learn at a museum and archives!”

Faye Zinck was born in British Columbia and grew up in Saskatchewan and Alberta. She married, had two children and stayed home to raise them through their early years. In the mid-1980s, Zinck secured a business diploma at Red Deer College, a job at a biomedical research firm in Vancouver and then a position at the Science Council of BC. In 1996, Zinck became Director of Finance at the BC Transportation Financing Authority in Victoria, a post she held until joining the Royal BC Museum as Chief Financial Officer in 2003. As a Certified General Accountant, she is passionate about numbers, loves accounting and embraces the opportunity to make organizations more successful by developing better financial and management systems. Zinck is a hard-working leader at the Royal BC Museum.
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