Tino La Spina commenced as our CEO on 17 March 2025.

Tino brings significant operational and commercial experience, having served as a Financial Advisor to GenesisCare and as Chief Finance and Strategy Officer at Boral. Tino also held key positions at Qantas, including CFO and CEO of its International operations. He began his career as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young.

Sophia Rihani is a Managing Director in Brookfield’s Asset Management Group, and leads the team’s transactions for the Aisa Pacific region. She has been a Healthscope Board Member since 2019.

With nearly 20 years of legal experience, Sophia has spent over a decade at Brookfield, progressing from legal counsel to Managing Director. 

Sophie holds a Master of Law from the Australian National University and Diploma of studies in international relations from Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III).

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.

Victoria joined Healthscope in October 2018.

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 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 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 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 is a seasoned leader with 20 years of experience in driving business transformation, growth, and cultural change across healthcare and other sectors. Known for empowering and challenging teams to new heights, he has led organisational-wide transformations that have reshaped customer experiences, enhanced employee engagement, and achieved significant financial outcomes. At Medibank, his teams delivered over $250M in EBITDA and a 10-point increase in NPS, while at Bupa, his commercial transformation generated $200M in EBITDA.

Dean excels at building long-lasting organisational capabilities and implementing modern ways-of-working to boost team performance. His collaborative, coaching-driven approach fosters talent development and alignment across teams, creating cultures where people thrive and deliver their best work. At Healthscope, he leads our multi-year transformation focusing on improving patient outcomes, commercial performance, and future-proofing the business, while also building enterprise capability in portfolio, change and project management.

With a background in management consulting at McKinsey & Company and Partners in Performance, Dean connects and balances strategy, people, and disciplined execution to drive impactful results. He holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) from Monash University and enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, gardening, watching cricket, and supporting the Melbourne Football Club.

John Granger is a highly commercial technology executive with significant experience in leading technology uplift and transformation programs.

John joined us from Cleanaway Waste Management where he was CIO for eight years. He has worked in a variety of industries including logistics, utilities, banking. He is experienced in driving value from technology in lean, cost focused businesses.

John has a Bachelor of Information Systems, Technology from the University of Melbourne