Greg has been involved with Healthscope since 2018. He was a key member of the acquisition team and was seconded into the business as the COO during the first 6 months of Brookfield’s ownership. Greg subsequently joined the Healthscope Board and became the Chair of the People and Remuneration Committee.

Prior to his appointment as CEO of Healthscope, Greg Horan was a Managing Director in Brookfield’s Private Equity Group. In this role, he was responsible for the oversight of portfolio companies including Scientific Games, a global lottery services business, and Greenergy North America, a retail and wholesale fuel business.

Greg has a Masters In Science and Bachelor of Engineering.

Len Chersky | Chairman

Len Chersky is a Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Private Equity Group, responsible for investment origination, analysis and execution in the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Chersky has over 15 years of commercial and investment experience. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2013, he was Executive Director in Lend Lease Corporation and previously held a number of senior positions in investment banking and financial services as well as executive roles in major listed organisations in Australia.

Mr. Chersky holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Law, both from University of New South Wales.

Nicole Waldron joined Healthscope in November 2021 as Chief Operating Officer, following 10 years at Epworth, most recently as Chief Operating Officer. In this role Nicole was accountable for hospital services, business development, hospitality, and infrastructure. While at Epworth Nicole led a $250 million brownfield expansion program, oversaw the development and implementation of Epworth Medical Imaging and was responsible for the group Strategy portfolio.

Nicole began her career as a nurse at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and has previously worked at Healthscope in a variety of roles including hospital General Manager roles, as well as State Manager for Victoria and Tasmania.

Dr Victoria Atkinson | Chief Medical Officer

Building on a career as a cardiothoracic surgeon, Victoria has now combined her clinical knowledge with an executive career. With over 25 years’ experience across both the private and public sectors of healthcare, Victoria brings both the macroscopic and microscopic views of health to the Chief Medical Officer role.

Victoria’s role spans clinical strategy, clinical governance and risk management, as well as medical affairs, and the medico-legal portfolio. Victoria also serves on a number of government and industry bodies, including the Private Hospital Sector Committee of the Australian Commission on Quality and Safety in Health care.

Prior to commencing at Healthscope, Victoria was the national Chief Medical Officer and Group General Manager of Clinical Governance for St Vincent’s Health Australia and previously, was the Director Medical Governance at Melbourne health, combining this with an active clinical role.

Jeff Sells |

Chief Financial Officer

Jeff brings exceptional CFO ability, a natural commercial bent and deep expertise in strategy development and execution, financial governance, balance sheet management, debt financing, business turnaround and team leadership.

Jeff has worked across pharmaceuticals, professional services, natural resources and retail in different countries and cultures.

His experience covers corporate finance, business planning, strategy and commercial leadership. He has worked in CFO roles and led business units.

Most recently Jeff worked at Sigma Healthcare Limited for 12 years finishing as the Chief Commercial Officer responsible for a wholesale and retail business and prior to that he was the Sigma CFO.

Dhruv is an experienced leader with over 25 years’ experience in strategy and commercial roles and an outstanding track record of delivering business growth.

He was Chief Aviation Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Sydney Airport where he led the airport’s aviation team and growth strategy including airline agreements, acquisitions, digital transformation, and its operational response during Covid. Prior to this Dhruv was Group Director, Strategy and Corporate Development at Fairfax Media.

He previously worked at Macquarie Capital as an investment banker and as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group. He trained as an engineer and holds an MBA from Stanford University.

Richard Holbeach | General Counsel

Richard joined Healthscope in October 2019.

He started off his career with 12 years in power and utilities, including six years attempting to build power plants in South East Asia.

In what he describes as a perfectly logical pivot, he moved into health to lead the legal side of the Medibank IPO in 2013, and led the consumer legal team there for almost six years before joining Healthscope.

He has a degree in law and physics from the University of Melbourne.

Katherine MacHutchison | Chief People Officer

Katherine brings 30 years of leadership experience to the Chief People Officer position. Katherine joined Healthscope in November 2019 and has executive accountability for the Human Resources, Safety and Communications functions.

Katherine has led HR functions and large cultural transformation in leadership roles in retail and financial services and has a long connection with and passion for healthcare. Prior to joining Healthscope, Katherine was the Executive Director of People and Culture at Eastern Health where her key focus was change leadership, safety and developing an exceptional employee and leader experience. Prior to that, she led the Organisational Development function at Epworth Healthcare where she was accountable for the leadership and talent pipeline, succession management and ensuring a high performing organisational culture.

Katherine has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and post graduate qualifications in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations from RMIT.

Dean Karvelis | Chief Transformation Officer

Dean brings deep expertise designing, and delivering successful business transformations across healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and mining.

He led both Medibank’s and Bupa’s multi-year customer and commercial transformations, where these programs and initiatives improved customer satisfaction, reduced churn, built new capabilities in analytics and delivered strong financial results.

At McKinsey, he worked with a Melbourne public hospital network to create efficiencies and savings in non-clinical areas and led patient enrolment for the largest randomised diabetes control trial ever conducted in Australia for the Federal Government.

One of Dean’s distinctive qualities is his ability to strike the balance between bringing global best practices and customising frameworks, so they align with the local context. Dean’s approach is to learn from as many team members as possible, particularly those team members on the frontline, by immersing himself in the detail. I know Dean is eager to visit hospitals and meet our teams to begin understanding how this transformation can be as successful as possible.