ANDREA ANDREWS
Executive Director of Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSCM)
SA Health
Introducing
Our Speakers
For the 7th Annual
SA Health Supplier Conference
Andrea Andrews is the Executive Director of Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSCM), a business unit within SA Health that is central to delivering high-quality healthcare services.
Andrea is involved in the strategic planning, direction and distribution of the organisation’s overall spending and critical requirements for goods and services, valued at $2.8 billion per annum across the entire SA Health system, including Public Hospitals and SA Ambulance Service.
Her responsibilities include a state-wide strategic leadership and operational role in sourcing, contract management, commercial advice, warehousing, logistics and fleet management for the Department for Health and Wellbeing.
ANDREA ANDREWS
Executive Director of Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSCM)
SA Health
Alastair McDonald is the Director Strategy, Architecture & Engagement, Digital Health SA, focussed on the evaluation of new initiatives against the strategic themes and architectural principles. Digital Health SA delivers the digital and technology needs of SA Health.
Alastair is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in digital transformation.
ALASTAIR McDONALD
Director Strategy, Architecture & Engagement,
Digital Health SA
Ian is the Chief Executive of Green Industries SA, the State Government agency driving the transition to a circular economy. He is a strategic science, business and public sector leader with experience across academia, state and federal government, not-for-profit and start-up companies. He has a passion for sustainability, climate action and enhancing systems for environmental, social and economic benefits. Ian holds the title of Professor at the Adelaide University Business School, he is a Board member of Circular Australia and the University of Adelaide Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources and is the Chair of the Nature Positive Economy Transition CRC bid.
PROFESSOR IAN OVERTON
Chief Executive
Green Industries SA
Lisa is best known for her role as a presenter on Channel 9’s Postcards program.
She enjoyed the role for 14 years during which the program received very high ratings, frequently appearing in the top 10 programs watched for the week.
Postcards often out-rated shows like 60 Minutes and The Mentalist.
Lisa also appeared on Postcards Australia which aired nationally on the Win Network and internationally on the Discovery Channel.
Lisa carved an enviable reputation on Postcards as the ‘can do’ member of the team.
Never one to shy away from a good story, she’s had on camera crash courses in all manner of extreme sports.
All in the name of a good story.
Her enduring TV career includes more than 70 local, national and international TV commercials and numerous tourism, corporate and training documentaries.
In 2011 she established Lisa McAskill Presenting with a focus on the training of presenters and media mentoring. The business has evolved to include a production arm that includes writing, producing and directing online video content for individuals and businesses, social impact video content and TV commercials.
Lisa’s relaxed, confident and authentic presenting style is greatly admired within the industry.
LISA MCASKILL
MC
Marty Wilson has spent his entire professional life studying resilience, partly because he was a full-time Stand Up Comic for 8 years in the UK (and nobody knows how to bounce back from adversity like an Aussie Comic performing to the Brits!), but also because he is a relentless entrepreneur who has leapt from one successful career to another – he’s a Pharmacist turned Award-Winning Advertising Copywriter turned Stand Up Comic turned Bestselling Author and Speaker. He has spoken to over 500,000 people since he first leapt up on stage in 1997. In his first 12 months Marty won Australian Comic of the Year, appeared on the Footy Show, and was invited to the UK to become a full time Stand Up. He returned home 2008 and now helps people and businesses use humour and levity to lead behaviour change in the areas of health and innovation.
Marty structures his programs on the results of over 1,000 interviews he has done with inspirational and successful people for his 11 and counting books in his bestselling What I Wish I Knew series. From footy coach Wayne Bennett to a Buddhist Nun who works with prisoners on death row in L.A., from Comic Anh Do to a mother of eleven children, from a 911 survivor to chef Maggie Beer. This makes his programs incredibly human and instantly relatable to a wide variety of audiences.
MARTY WILSON
Resilience Expert
Jonathan Dutton FCIPS FCIM is widely recognised throughout the procurement profession as an industry though leader and influencer.
He has a rich background working on both sides of the negotiating table during his career as both a buyer and as a seller, working as a practitioner, leader, trainer, coach and a consultant through JD Consultancy https://www.jdconsultancy.com.au/
Currently, he is the CEO of the largest provider of procurement conferences and events in the region PASA https://procurementandsupply.com/
Jonathan was also the founding CEO of CIPS, the global peak body, in this region from 2004-2013.
JONATHAN DUTTON
Chief Executive Officer
Procurement and Supply Australasia (PASA)
Judith Formston is the Chief Executive Corporate Services at the Department of Health & Wellbeing, starting in the role in June this year. Prior to this Judith was the Deputy Chief Executive and Head of Corporate Services at the Department for Infrastructure and Transport.
Judith holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Economics. She has worked in Government for over 20 years, holding Executive and Senior Management positions in The Department for Treasury and Finance, Department for Premier & Cabinet and Department for Correctional Services.
In her current role, she has Executive responsibility for Finance, Procurement and Contracting, Infrastructure Projects and Accommodation and Workforce matters. Judith was also a former Board member on the State Procurement Board and Chair of the Procurement Committee at the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, providing Governance over some major Procurements impacting the State.
JUDITH FORMSTON
Chief Executive Corporate Services
Department of Health & Wellbeing
Tanya is a proud Yaruwu woman who has lived and worked most of her life on the lands of the Larrakia people in the Northern Territory and now on Kaurna land in South Australia.
Tanya has an extensive background in Human Resource Management and Aboriginal Health Policy. She is currently the Chief Aboriginal Health Officer for Aboriginal Health in the Department for Health and Wellbeing, leading the reform of Aboriginal Health strategy including state funding and investment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tanya was also the Executive lead responsible for COVID-19 response and preparedness for Aboriginal Communities in South Australia by maintaining a two-way interaction with Communities and frontline services.
Further to this, Tanya is leading the development of innovative, collaborative practices across the sector to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal South Australians living with or at risk of developing chronic health conditions through the continuation of the South Australian Aboriginal Chronic Disease Consortium.
To improve Aboriginal Health requires equal parts of Cultural and Social determinant inputs.
TANYA McGREGOR
Chief Aboriginal Health Office
SA Health
Zarina is the Chief Procurement Officer and commenced her tenure at SA Health in October 2020. Zarina’s career spans various sectors, encompassing both the private and public domains, including manufacturing, resources, utilities, and retail.
With over 25 years of industry experience in procurement, with a focus on Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Contract Management. Her extensive experience extends across complex and global organizations in the United Kingdom and Australia.
In her role as Chief Procurement Officer, Zarina believes that procurement and contract management can be agents of change, dedicated to supporting South Australians’ well-being. She is deeply committed to driving strategic initiatives that contribute to the greater good of our local health sector and ensure value for money outcomes.
ZARINA CARTY
Chief Procurement Officer
Alex Ozerov is currently managing Equipment Category at Procurement and Supply Chain Management, SA Health. Alex’s experience includes the provision of consulting services for both government and private industry with global exposure in project management, product commercialisation and marketing; procurement of high volume consumables, specialty materials and technology solutions, development of equipment and component supplier network, and building collaborations and partnerships.
ALEX OZEROV
Manager Equipment Category
Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Karin is a Procurement and Supply Chain Professional with extensive international experience in global organisations.
Her knowledge extends across procurement and supply chain processes & systems, customer service & delivery management, and supplier & service provider frameworks including performance management.
Karin is currently responsible for leading a team who manages the Whole-of-Health Medical Consumables Contracts.
KARIN BECKER
Manager
Contract Management
(Goods & Materials)
Rod has a lifetime career in ICT and over a decade in leading the design and implementation of technology in digital hospital construction.
Rod was responsible for designing and building the technology in Australia’s first fully digital Hospital, in Hervey Bay Queensland, and leading several iconic hospital constructions in Victoria such as the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and the Victorian Heart Hospital.
Rod currently heads up the digital health portfolio for the New Women’s and Children’s Hospital and is responsible for the successful implementation of the digital health scope of works.
ROD SPRENGER
Director – Digital Health
New Women’s and Children’s Hospital Project
Melissa Nozza is the Director, Capital Projects, Infrastructure.
She holds tertiary qualifications in Architecture and Project Management and commenced her career as a practising Architect for 11 years, before moving to a private consulting organisation for five years as a Project Manager.
Melissa then joined the South Australian Government initially working for the Department for Infrastructure and Transport as a Project Manager before joining SA Health as a Senior Project Manager within the Capital Projects Team.
In May this year, Melissa was successful in being appointed to the role of Director, Capital Projects reflecting her leadership with stakeholders, colleagues and her ability to deliver significant outcomes through her projects.
Over her career spanning 20+ years, Melissa has successfully delivered projects across multiple sectors including health, education, industrial, commercial, retail, and residential.
Melissa is a highly motivated, energetic person who strives to achieve successful project and team outcomes that will positively impact on the health and wellbeing of South Australians now and into the future.
MELISSA NOZZA
Director
Capital Projects, Infrastructure
The Deputy Industry Advocate, Phillip Dowsett has been with the office since 2016. As the Deputy Industry Advocate the role supports the Industry Advocate with the strategic application of the South Australian Industry Participation Policy (SAIPP) by Responsible Government Agencies with the objective of maximising the economic benefit to the State from government expenditure.
From an advocacy perspective, Phillip’s role is to increase the number and diversity of South Australian based businesses winning government contracts. The SAIPP and the Industry Advocate Act 2017 underpins the functions of the both the Deputy, and the Industry Advocate.
Over the last 17 years, Phillip has considerable experience in leading, managing and developing highly successful multidisciplinary teams across international divisions incorporating sales and marketing, service, operations, production and warehousing. From operating his own business through to various managing director roles, his primary responsibility was for the generation of growth, developing submissions for government tenders and managing new and existing government and private sector contracts, across the Asia Pacific region.
PHILLIP DOWSETT
Deputy Industry Advocate
Office of the Industry Advocate
Department of Treasury and Finance
Zarina is the Chief Procurement Officer and commenced her tenure at SA Health in October 2020. Zarina’s career spans various sectors, encompassing both the private and public domains, including manufacturing, resources, utilities, and retail.
With over 25 years of industry experience in procurement, with a focus on Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Contract Management. Her extensive experience extends across complex and global organizations in the United Kingdom and Australia.
In her role as Chief Procurement Officer, Zarina believes that procurement and contract management can be agents of change, dedicated to supporting South Australians’ well-being. She is deeply committed to driving strategic initiatives that contribute to the greater good of our local health sector and ensure value for money outcomes.
DR ALEX BARKER
Innovations Manager
Medical Device Partnering Program
A Registered Nurse with over 35 years of Operating Theatre experience in both public and private sectors. Melissa has experience in scrub/scout, and sterilisation department roles, and was the Sterilising Department Manager at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She has been involved with the SA and Australian Perioperative Nursing Committees. Working alongside Lucy Fahey, Melissa has been the Principal Clinical Product Manager within Procurement & Supply Chain management since October 2015, returning to her role in 2023 after a secondment at Women’s & Children’s Health Network.
MELISSA VINEY
Principal Clinical Product Manager
Procurement & Supply Chain Management
A Registered Nurse with over 30 years of Operating Theatre experience in both the public and private sectors. Lucy has experience in both scrub/scout and anaesthetic perioperative roles, and as an Educator within the perioperative department. She has specialised in Urology, and also undertook the DaVinci robotic training program. Lucy has worked alongside Melissa Viney as Principal Clinical Product Manager within Procurement & Supply Chain Management since March 2022.
LUCY FAHEY
Principal Clinical Product Manager
Procurement & Supply Chain Management
Jennifer Browne is the Director Performance and Contracts within the Commissioning and Performance Division (PCP), Department of Health and Wellbeing. Commissioning and Performance’s role within SA Health is to lead an integrated approach to commissioning, purchasing and performance management of government funded providers to ensure agreed system and service outcomes are achieved.
Jennifer has held a number of Executive roles including Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of Northern Adelaide Local Health Network and Chief Financial Officer at the Department for Child Protection, and Director of Commissioning in Department of Health and Wellbeing. With over 20 years of experience working in Health, Jennifer is passionate about ensuring South Australian’s receive safe, quality and affordable health care.
JENNIFER BROWNE
Director Performance & Contracts
Wayne has held a variety of senior roles within regional health services throughout South Australia.
This experience as a Regional Director, in three different regions of South Australia, and experience as Chief Operating Officer of Country Health SA LHN, which operated 61 hospitals throughout South Australia until it was disestablished in 2019. Wayne is now the Chief Executive Officer of the Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, one of six regional health networks that were formed when Country Health SA LHN was disestablished.
Originally from New Zealand, Wayne relocated to South Australia in 2011. Wayne’s roles within the New Zealand health system include Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer, General Manager of Corporate Services and Chief Operating Officer for the West Coast District Health Board in Greymouth. He also has significant disaster resilience and emergency management experience, gained as Operations Controller for Canterbury District Health Board during the Christchurch Earthquake Response. This experience has been applied in South Australia in bushfire responses, the COVID-19 response and in the response to the 2022 Murray River flood event.
WAYNE CHAMPION
CEO of Riverland Mallee Coorong
LHN
Rema Ghosn is Manager of the Category Management – Services team within Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSCM) at SA Health.
A seasoned professional, Rema has over 32 years of government experience, with an extensive background at various government agencies such as the Department for Treasury and Finance and TAFE. These roles showcase her diverse skillset and commitment to public service and have made her a valuable source of insight and knowledge.
With over two decades of experience in procurement and supply chain management, Rema is a recognised expert in her field. She is well respected by her peers for demonstrating a strong commitment to excellence, and for her desire to help the next generation of procurement professionals succeed.
Rema’s is an advocate for Aboriginal supplier engagement; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives; and stakeholder engagement, which is a testament to her commitment to creating a more sustainable and equitable future.
REMA GHOSN
Manager of the Category Management – Services
Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSCM)
Hardy Mehta is a seasoned professional with nearly three years of dedicated service in Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSCM) within SA Health. Currently managing South Australia’s largest ICT procurement team, his team’s contributions are pivotal in driving IT innovation and transformation, crucial for the organisation’s technological future.
With over a decade of IT procurement experience, including a distinguished role in the Federal Government and a decade managing global contracts for Telstra, Hardy is a influential figure in SA Health’s journey towards technological excellence. His dedication and knowledge continue to shape procurement practices and steer SA Health into a brighter technological future.
HARDY MEHTA
Senior Manager
ICT Procurement
Parry and Linking Futures are a great team with 6 years into their partnership. Between them, their history and networks they reach far into different sectors and at times into unchartered waters. Together with the Linking Futures team we are making a difference for those who seek our genius thinking and agility to influence and offer enabling advice and tools. Our experiences to understand the commercial mapping and adapt itself accordingly to currently position us as a Specialist Indigenous Service Provider and our belief is “working in two worlds”. My mother says I work in three worlds, the Aboriginal community, the general community, and the world of your family.
Parry has three decades of effective organisational leadership and service delivery expertise and in the last 10 years as a sole trader and majority shareholder in Linking Futures Pty and currently its Managing Director.
Parry is Board member of the Aboriginal Biodiversity Conservation Foundation (DGR) in Western Australia and its Trust (ABCF). The chairperson of the Aboriginal Carbon Environmental Services (ACES), board member Forest Stewardship Council of the Australian and New Zealand and its Indigenous Working Group (IWG)
As an inspiring and motivating leader, Parry encourages people to enjoy what they do in the workplace; be accountable for and take ownership of their work, become familiar with the environment they work in. He is well known in the South Australian Aboriginal community and has a history across Australia and focus on the importance stakeholder. This is the essence of what Parry brings to all projects he works on.
Parry has vast experience in cross cultural settings and across sectors, working for and with all tiers of government, small and medium business, larger corporations and not for profit Indigenous groups, Cooperative Research Centers, (CRC) and businesses in remote and regional communities throughout Australia. Parry has a strong background in community engagement and development, government sectors, native title, natural resource management, human services, health, education, and more recently infra-structure and building and construction.
Parry is extraordinarily successful in drawing together ordinary community people and experienced professionals to build futures through enabling conversations and collaborating, leading to creation of unique models of economic development and social engagement.
He has an Associate Diploma in Aboriginal Affairs, a Bachelor of Arts (Aboriginal Affairs Administration) and completed 2 subjects of his Adelaide University MBA and deferred studying to build Linking Futures Pty.
In 2000, Parry was awarded the first Prime Minister’s Centenary Medal for his work with Aboriginal people, Churchill Fellow 2004 and in 2013 was recognised by Macquarie University as an Honorary Associate. He is a strong advocate for socio-economic benefits for Aboriginal people and his career spans nearly 30 years cementing partnerships between Indigenous groups, government and industry and communities.
Parry was the Presiding Member of the Alinytjara Wilurara NRM Board and Landscape Board for 10 years and 5 years board member a total of 15 years spanning from 2008 -2023.
PARRY AGIUS
Managing Director
Linking Futures
Bronwyn has worked in the public and not for profit health industry for over 30 years and has recently taken on the Interim Chief Executive Officer role for Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network (BHFLHN). She has worked in BHFLHN since 2020 as the Executive Director – Operations. Prior to joining BHFLHN, she was Executive Director, Operations at Central Adelaide Local Health Network. Bronwyn holds a strong belief and passion for public health services and the provision of equitable, accessible and affordable services.
Bronwyn is a graduate of Flinders University with a Bachelor of Commerce and Masters in Health Service Management. In 2018 she was a scholarship recipient through Women & Leadership Australia and completed the Advanced Leadership Program through Monash University.
BRONWYN MASTERS
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network (BHFLHN)
Self-motivated procurement professional, who is responsible for the Medical Consumables, Sourcing and Category Management team at SA Health. Procurement experience has been gained from 30+ years across multiple industries including manufacturing, service sector and government. Responsibilities have included all areas of procurement including the tender process, strategic direction and change management, project management and category management.
SUE MURPHY
Medical Consumables
Sourcing and Category Management
SA Health
Thursday 9th November, 2023
Adelaide Convention Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
12 Stirling Street
Thebarton SA 5031