AVITA Medical Inc (ASX:AVH)

Mr. Panaccio was appointed as AVITA Medical Chairman of the Board in July 2014 with more than 30 years of executive leadership skills in healthcare and life sciences experience, including developing company concepts through finished commercialization.

Mr. Panaccio is positioned on additional Boards including Non-Executive Director of ASX50 company, one of the world’s largest medical diagnostics companies; Sonic Healthcare Limited since 2005; Non-Executive Director Unison Housing Limited; Non-Executive Chairman of Genera Biosystems Limited; and Non-Executive Director Rhythm Biosciences Limited. Mr. Panaccio’s past executive and board roles includ Melbourne Pathology Group, Monash IVF Group, Health Networks Australia Group and Primelife Corporation Limited.

Jeremy is a veteran in the life sciences/healthcare industry and has been actively supporting the commercialization of healthcare innovations and helping entrepreneurs build their international businesses over the past 45 years. Founder and Managing Director of BioScience Managers, Jeremy brings his decades of international experience to our investment team, to support the identification of investment opportunities and in the strategic assessment of value creation options, in particular through M&A and expansion into new geographies. He actively supports portfolio companies through his executive and non-executive roles.

Professor Suzanne Crowe AO, has served as a Non-Executive Director of AVITA Medical since January 2016. Australian-based, she is a physician-scientist and ASX/Nasdaq-listed company director with expertise in supporting companies with their medical and scientific strategies. A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, she is currently a Non-Executive Director of St Vincent’s Health Australia Ltd, the country’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, and Non-Executive Director of Sonic Healthcare Ltd, a large global medical diagnostic company. She was appointed Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Melbourne in 2020. After 35 years at both, she has recently retired from the Burnet Institute, having served as Associate Director Clinical Research, and the university-affiliated Alfred Hospital Melbourne, where she held the appointment of Senior Specialist Physician in Infectious Diseases. She was appointed as Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2020 in recognition of her distinguished services to health, clinical governance, biomedical research and education.

Mr. McNamara is an accomplished senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in public and privately held companies in the medical device and technology industries. His extensive experience in operations and financial management spans across early stage, high growth, and mature companies. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of Audit Committee for Axonics, Inc. and is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of Compensation Committee for Xtant Medical Holdings. Prior to these appointments, Mr. McNamara served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of LDR Holding/Spine. Prior to this role, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of three publicly-traded medical device companies Accuray, Somnus Medical Technologies, and Target Therapeutics. Mr. McNamara holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Reed has more than 35 years of legal, management and business leadership experience primarily within the healthcare industry, and brings significant expertise in corporate governance, compliance and risk management. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., a global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing company. Prior to Walgreens, Ms. Reed was Executive Vice President, Human Resources, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Solo Cup Company, where she was responsible for the legal, human resources, internal audit, corporate communications, and compliance functions. Prior to Solo Cup Company, she was Associate General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Corporate Governance Officer at Baxter International, Inc.. Ms. Reed currently serves as a board member of Stepan Co. (NYSE:SCL) and AngioDynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGO). Ms. Reed holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Psychology from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

Mr. Vance has over 25 years of extensive leadership experience with commercial and operational expertise in the healthcare industry. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of PhotoniCare, Inc. Prior to this appointment, he was President and CEO of Titan Medical, and he continues to serve as an independent director for Titan Medical’s Board of Directors. Previously, Mr. Vance served as President and CEO of XCath, a privately held neurovascular robotics company, having also served in similar roles at OptiScan Biomedical, Myoscience, and Hansen Medical. He strategically transformed and commercialised these businesses and markets with disruptive, enabling, and game-changing novel technologies. Mr. Vance has also executed on equity and debt financing strategies as an integral step to successful value creation and M&A events. Prior to his role at Hansen Medical, he served in various global executive leadership roles at Teleflex, Covidien, and GE HealthCare. Mr. Vance is NACD and Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt Certified, and holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and an MBA from Marquette University.

Appointed as Chief Executive Officer of AVITA Medical in September 2022 after serving on the Board since June 2021, Mr. Corbett brings extensive experience, including nearly 40 years of leadership experience in the medical device field, most recently, as CEO of CathWorks Ltd., a software-based medical technology company. Mr. Corbett has extensive global commercial and operating experience, serving as an expatriate General Manager of Baxter Japan and later as General Manager and President of Scimed Life Systems Inc. and Boston Scientific International respectively. During his career he has served as CEO of 3 publicly listed companies; Microtherapeutics Inc (MTIX), ev3 Inc (evvv), Alphatec Spine (ATEC). Mr. Corbett has also led two privately funded companies as CEO; Home Diagnostics Inc. and Vertos Medical. Mr. Corbett has extensive capital market and governance experience from both public and private environments. Mr. Corbett holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Kansas.