New president elect of BCLA

Jonathon Bench, current head of professional affairs at Alcon, has been nominated as president elect of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA).

A BCLA member for over a decade, Bench previously served on the committee for five years and was invited to join the exclusive BCLA executive council last year.

He has experienced a number of roles in optics, having worked for a multiple and owned a franchise practice before joining Alcon five years ago.

Upon receiving the role, Bench said he would like to highlight the benefits of contact lenses further and celebrate the ‘everyday heroes’ in practices who go ‘above and beyond the needs of their patients’.