About Us: Board of Directors

EMPOWERING A BOLD VISION

Our board members empower our culture, diversity and advancement as global leaders in a regenerative medicine company. Collectively, our advisors provide innovative solutions and industry-leading guidance to focus on patient care and medical successes made possible from their direction and insistence that only results change the way exceptional care is administered.

Lou Panaccio

Chairman

Mr. Panaccio was appointed as AVITA Medical Chairman of the Board in July 2014 with more than 30 years of executive leadership skills in healthcare and life sciences experience, including developing company concepts through finished commercialization.

Mr. Panaccio is positioned on additional Boards including Non-Executive Director of ASX50 company, one of the world’s largest medical diagnostics companies; Sonic Healthcare Limited since 2005; Non-Executive Director Unison Housing Limited; Non-Executive Chairman of Genera Biosystems Limited; and Non-Executive Director Rhythm Biosciences Limited. Mr. Panaccio’s past executive and board roles includ Melbourne Pathology Group, Monash IVF Group, Health Networks Australia Group and Primelife Corporation Limited.

 

Jeremy Curnock Cook

Non-Executive Director

Jeremy is a veteran in the life sciences/healthcare industry and has been actively supporting the commercialization of healthcare innovations and helping entrepreneurs build their international businesses over the past 45 years. Founder and Managing Director of BioScience Managers, Jeremy brings his decades of international experience to our investment team, to support the identification of investment opportunities and in the strategic assessment of value creation options, in particular through M&A and expansion into new geographies. He actively supports portfolio companies through his executive and non-executive roles.

Over his career, Jeremy has successfully managed in excess of US$1billion in equity investments. He launched the first dedicated biotechnology fund for the Australian market and is a former head of the life science private equity team at Rothschild Asset Management, an early pioneer and significant investor in the sector. In his early career he founded the International Biochemicals Group which he successfully sold to Royal Dutch Shell. He co-created a European-focused seed fund with Johnson & Johnson and built the International Biotechnology Trust. He has served on more than 40 boards of directors in the life science sector, in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Japan and Australia. Jeremy currently serves on the following boards: AVITA Medical Ltd appointed October 2012, Sea Dragon appointed October 2012, Rex Bionics Pty Ltd appointed February 2012, Armata Pharmaceuticals July 1995, SummatiX Pty Ltd appointed July 2017, Adherium Ltd appointed April 2015, JLCC Ltd appointed December 2019, Bioscience Managers UK Ltd appointed August 2017, Bioscience Managers Pty Ltd appointed January 2003, International BioScience Managers Ltd appointed March 2000, Arecor Ltd appointed October 2018, Smart Matrix Ltd appointed February 2013, and Gen InCode appointed July 2020.

 

Professor Suzanne Crowe

Non-Executive Director

Professor Suzanne Crowe AO, has served as a Non-Executive Director of AVITA Medical since January 2016. Australian-based, she is a physician-scientist and ASX/Nasdaq-listed company director with expertise in supporting companies with their medical and scientific strategies. A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, she is currently a Non-Executive Director of St Vincent’s Health Australia Ltd, the country’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, and Non-Executive Director of Sonic Healthcare Ltd, a large global medical diagnostic company. She was appointed Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Melbourne in 2020. After 35 years at both, she has recently retired from the Burnet Institute, having served as Associate Director Clinical Research, and the university-affiliated Alfred Hospital Melbourne, where she held the appointment of Senior Specialist Physician in Infectious Diseases. She was appointed as Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2020 in recognition of her distinguished services to health, clinical governance, biomedical research and education.

 

Robert McNamara

Non-Executive Director

Mr. McNamara is an accomplished senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in public and privately held companies in the medical device and technology industries. His extensive experience in operations and financial management spans across early stage, high growth, and mature companies. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of Audit Committee for Axonics Modulation Technologies and Teknova. Additionally, Mr. McNamara is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of Compensation Committee for Xtant Medical Holdings. Prior to these appointments, Mr. McNamara served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of LDR Holding/Spine. Prior to this role, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of three publicly traded medical device companies Accuray, Somnus Medical Technologies, and Target Therapeutics. Mr. McNamara holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of San Francisco and an MBA. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

 

Jan Stern Reed

Non-Executive Director

Ms. Reed has more than 35 years of legal, management and business leadership experience primarily within the healthcare industry, and brings significant expertise in corporate governance, compliance and risk management. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., a global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing company. Prior to Walgreens, Ms. Reed was Executive Vice President, Human Resources, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Solo Cup Company, where she was responsible for the legal, human resources, internal audit, corporate communications, and compliance functions. Prior to Solo Cup Company, she was Associate General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Corporate Governance Officer at Baxter International, Inc.. Ms. Reed currently serves as a board member of Stepan Co. (NYSE:SCL) and AngioDynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGO). Ms. Reed holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Psychology from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

 

Cary Vance

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Vance has over 25 years of extensive leadership experience with commercial and operational expertise in the healthcare industry. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of PhotoniCare, Inc. Prior to this appointment, he was President and CEO of Titan Medical, and still serves as an independent director for Titan Medical’s Board of Directors. Previously, Mr. Vance served as President and CEO of XCath, a privately held neurovascular robotics company, having also served in similar roles at OptiScan Biomedical, Myoscience, and Hansen Medical. He strategically transformed and commercialized these businesses and markets with disruptive, enabling, and game-changing novel technologies. Mr. Vance has also executed on equity and debt financing strategies as an integral step to successful value creation and M&A events. Prior to his role at Hansen Medical, he served in various global executive leadership roles at Teleflex, Covidien, and GE HealthCare. Mr. Vance is Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt Certified, and holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and an MBA from Marquette University.

 

James Corbett

Executive Director

James Corbett was named Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on September 28, 2022.  Prior to this appointment, Mr. Corbett served as a Non-Executive Director from July 2021 to September 28, 2022. He has nearly 40 years of leadership experience in the Life Sciences field having served most recently as CEO of CathWorks, LTD. Mr. Corbett has extensive global commercial and operating experience, serving as an expatriate General Manager of Baxter Japan and later as General Manager and President of Scimed Life Systems Inc. and Boston Scientific International, respectively. During his career he has served as CEO of three publicly listed companies: Microtherapeutics Inc (MTIX), ev3 Inc (evvv) and Alphatec Spine (ATEC). Mr. Corbett has also led two privately funded companies as CEO: Home Diagnostics Inc. and Vertos Medical. Mr. Corbett has extensive capital markets and governance experience from both public and private environments. Mr. Corbett holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Kansas.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION (United States)

INDICATIONS FOR USE: The RECELL® Autologous Cell Harvesting Device is indicated for the treatment of acute thermal burn wounds. The RECELL® device is used by an appropriately-licensed healthcare professional at the patient’s point of care to prepare autologous RES® Regenerative Epidermal Suspension for direct application to acute partial-thickness thermal burn wounds in patients 18 years of age and older or application in combination with meshed autografting for acute full-thickness thermal burn wounds in pediatric and adult patients.

CONTRAINDICATIONS: RECELL® is contraindicated for: the treatment of wounds clinically diagnosed as infected or with necrotic tissue, the treatment of patients with a known hypersensitivity to trypsin or compound sodium lactate (Hartmann’s) solution, patients having a known hypersensitivity to anesthetics, adrenaline/epinephrine, povidone-iodine, or chlorhexidine solutions.

WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS: Autologous use only. Wound beds treated with a cytotoxic agent (e.g., silver sulfadiazine) should be rinsed prior to application of the cell suspension. RECELL® is provided sterile and is intended for single-use. Do not use if packaging is damaged or expired. Choose a donor site with no evidence of cellulitis or infection and process skin immediately. A skin sample should require between 15 and 30 minutes contact with Enzyme. Contact in excess of 60 minutes is not recommended. RECELL® Enzyme is animal derived and freedom from infectious agents cannot be guaranteed.

PRECAUTIONS: RECELL® is not intended for use without meshed autograft for treatment of full-thickness burn wounds. The safety and effectiveness of RECELL® without meshed autograft have not been established for treatment of partial-thickness burn wounds: on the hands and articulating joints, >320 cm2, in patients with wounds totaling >20% total body surface area (TBSA). The safety and effectiveness of RECELL with autografting have not been established for treatment of full-thickness burn wounds: on the hands and articulated joints, and in patients younger than 28 days of age (neonates).

SPECIAL PATIENT POPULATIONS: The safety and effectiveness of RECELL® have not been established for treatment of acute thermal partial-thickness burn wounds in pediatric patients younger than 18 years of age.

For complete Important Safety Information, refer to Instructions For Use. Please be aware that any indication for RECELL® outside of the United States may differ from the US indication. Please see the Instructions for Use for each country for the specific indication of RECELL®.

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