Directors & Senior Management

The Hon. Ron Best is a highly respected former member of the Victorian Parliament (1988 to 2002), having held a number of senior positions in the National Party of Australia including; Parliamentary Secretary, Shadow Minister for Housing and Spokesman for Health, Housing, Racing, Sport and Recreation. Mr Best has also been a member of various Parliamentary Committees including the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee, the Environmental and Natural Resources Committee and a Board Member of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. Prior to his political career Mr Best was the owner of a successful food distribution business and General Manager of the Glacier Food Group. Mr Best is a Consultant of PFD Food Services Pty Ltd, one of Australia's largest privately owned food service companies.

Mr Bruce Mathieson is currently a director and chief executive officer of Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group Limited, a joint venture between Woolworths Limited and the Mathieson Family. The ALH Group owns approximately 260 hotels and 450 retail outlets across Australia, and employs more than 14,000 staff. The total annual turnover of the ALH Group is in excess of $1.6 billion.  Mr Mathieson has operated in the hotel, leisure and hospitality industry since 1974 and is a well respected member of the Australian business community. He has previously served as a director of the Carlton Football Club. He is trained as an engineer, and brings management and transactional experience from across a number of industries to the Board.

Mr Ian Scholes has extensive financial and corporate advisory experience, both in Australia and internationally.  Mr Scholes has held senior roles within Merrill Lynch Australia, most recently as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and continues to have an ongoing advisory role.  Previously Mr Scholes has held the position of Executive General Manager in National Australia Bank running their corporate and institutional banking division.  Mr Scholes is currently a partner and Chief Executive Officer of Chord Capital Pty Ltd, a Director of St Vincent’s Health and is Chairman of the St Vincent’s Foundation.

Mr Richards has more than 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and has worked in Europe, the US and Asia. Prior to joining Mayne Pharma, he was President, European Operations and Global Hospital Business of Intas Pharmaceutical Limited where he was responsible for managing their operations in Europe as well as developing the global hospital business with a focus on commercialisation of biosimilar and oncology products. He was also Executive Vice President of the Global Hospital Generics Business at Actavis and spent four years with Mayne Pharma Limited and 14 years with F H Faulding & Co Limited in various roles.

Mr Cansdale is a chartered accountant and company secretary with more than 20 years’ experience in the accounting and finance profession. Mr Cansdale was formerly the CFO and Company Secretary at McMillan Shakespeare Limited and prior to that, Vision Systems Limited. Mr Cansdale has extensive experience in the areas of business development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, tax, financial planning and analysis, risk management, treasury and investor relations.  Prior to joining Vision Systems in 2002, Mark held senior finance positions in the insurance and financial services industry at Norwich Union Australia and KPMG. 

Mr Caretti has 24 years experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and has worked with companies including Enterovax, Faulding/Mayne Pharma and Purepac (US). Mr Caretti commenced working for Faulding/Mayne Pharma in 1989 and has held various roles in product development, technical services, manufacturing, engineering and operations administration.

Dr Mudge has more than 10 years experience in regulatory affairs across European, USA and Australasian markets. His background includes product development planning, global regulatory submission strategy, direct interactions with the major international regulatory authorities, dossier preparation and submission and post approval life-cycle management. Previously he was the General Manager and Senior Director at Voisin Consulting Australia Pty Ltd.

Ms Simpson has over 13 years experience in various human resources and recruiting roles.  Currently overseeing the human resources and training functions, she joined Mayne Pharma in 2006 and has helped transition the business through both the Hospira and Halcygen acquisitions. Prior to joining Mayne Pharma, Ms Simpson spent over 5 years in human resources at SkyCity Adelaide (Adelaide Casino).

Mr Smith has more than 20 years of experience in the international biopharmaceutical industry encompassing both business development and R&D management roles.  In 2004, Mr Smith co-founded Virient Pty Ltd, a professional services company providing business development, technical and management services to emerging and established biopharmaceutical enterprises; clients included public and private companies, universities and other public research organisations.  Mr Smith also worked at F H Faulding & Co Ltd. 

Mr Tindall has a Degree in Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemistry and Microbiology and has 17 years experience with Faulding/Mayne Pharma. He has held various roles in the quality control, product development and quality assurance departments and has been in his current role for 3 years. Mr Tindall has also held the position of Quality Manager for a company in the food industry for a period of 6 years.

Mr Walter has over 18 years experience at Faulding/Mayne. He has worked in a number of diverse financial positions within Pharma manufacturing and Pharmacy distribution. Mr Walter has wide ranging finance experience from a number of other industries including paper packaging, manufacturing and distribution and poultry growing, processing and distribution.