Board of Directors

Paul Brennan

Chairman

Mr Brennan has extensive experience in the health system through his clinical background and commercial exposure with various multinational companies. Mr Brennan was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PolyNovo Limited (ASX:PNV) for 7 years from 2015 to 2021 and took the company from $30M to a high of $2B. Prior to this Mr Brennan was Marketing Director Australia and New Zealand and Sales Director New Zealand for Smith & Nephew Healthcare for 6 years. Mr Brennan is also (from November 2024) Chairman of Microbio, an Australian biotech company which has developed a novel molecular diagnostic technology.

Daniel Pollock

Non-Executive Director - LL.B. Dip.L.P.

Daniel Pollock is an internationally experienced lawyer with commercial expertise in new market entries into overseas markets, distribution agreements and corporate start-ups. Mr Pollock is the principle of a specialist legal business based in Melbourne, operating internationally. He is admitted in both Scotland and Australia. He has local and global business experience, and a strong understanding of rapidly growing, technology-based businesses. Mr Pollock has a long time involvement with international public corporations and corporate governance.

Professor Ravi Savarirayan

Non-Executive Director

Appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Company on April 1, 2017. He is a consultant clinical geneticist at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services since August 1999, as well as Professor and Research Group Leader (Skeletal Biology and Disease) at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute since September 2000. Mr. Savarirayan is a founding member of the Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium  since January 2011 and has been the Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Clinical Genetics, Royal Australasian College of Physicians since February 2009 . He was president of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Society from July 2009 to June 2011 and has been an invited member of several International Working Committees on Constitutional Diseases of Bone. 

Dr Jeannie Joughin

Non-Executive Director – BSc (Hons), PhD, MAICD

Dr Joughin is an experienced biopharmaceutical and medical device leader with 20+ years’ experience locally and internationally. Her operational and leadership experience has been forged through conducting research at universities and holding clinical and commercial positions of increasing seniority in multi-national pharmaceutical companies, start-up environments in private and listed companies located in the USA, Europe and Australia, and as a Venture Partner working with local and global portfolio companies.