Our Board

Dr Tony Sherbon is a highly experienced health system leader with more than 20 years’ experience in managing and governing the delivery of health care services across Australia. He has held Chief Executive roles across major public health organisations, including SA Health, ACT Health, the Illawarra Area Health Service, and the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, and currently provides specialist advice on health industry strategy and operations.

As Chair of gpex, Tony brings deep expertise in health system governance, policy reform, and large-scale organisational leadership. His extensive experience across government, primary care, education, and health financing supports gpex’s strategic direction, strengthens its credibility with stakeholders, and guides sustainable growth in support of the primary care workforce

Kimberly Philp is an accomplished director and Fellow Chartered Accountant with expertise in business valuations, advisory, and governance. With more than a decade in public practice, she has advised ASX-listed companies and led consultancy, valuation, and company secretarial services for diverse clients.

Kimberly is the Head of Teaching at Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), where she leads a Trans-Tasman team delivering the Chartered Accountants Program (CA Program). Her 15-year tenure at CA ANZ includes delivery of large-scale transformation initiatives, most recently focussed on AI-powered learning and CA Program pathways reform.

An advocate for professional development, Kimberly brings 13 years’ experience as a non-executive director and holds an MBA, a Graduate Certificate in Education, and is a Graduate of AICD’s Company Directors Program. She is committed to continuous learning and driving excellence in education and governance.

Greg Black is a seasoned CEO and educational leader with more than 25 years’ experience driving quality systems, innovation, and organisational improvement. He has established private higher education providers, expanded training organisations across the Asia Pacific, and operates a niche online postgraduate health education provider.

Greg brings strong expertise in education governance, digital delivery, and scalable training models to gpex, supporting the organisation’s focus on quality, innovation, and sustainable workforce development.

Dr. Rohan Ward is a seasoned executive, board director and health technology founder with more than two decades experience across clinical practice, digital health, and commercial growth. Originally trained as a medical doctor and surgical registrar, Rohan co‑founded Core Medical Solutions, creator of the BOSSnet clinical information system, and led the company through national scale‑up and its successful acquisition by Allscripts.

Rohan later served as Managing Director and Vice President, Asia for Allscripts, expanding operations across the Asia Pacific, UK, and US, and providing executive leadership during major events including the Sing Health cybersecurity incident.

A Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), he serves on the board of the Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network, chairing its Audit & Risk Subcommittee and contributing to the Clinical Governance Committee. He also advises early-stage innovators and supports university led health technology commercialisation through CareMappr PL.

Rohan is passionate about applying his expertise in strategy, digital transformation, cybersecurity, AI, and clinical safety within complex or highly regulated environments, and brings a rare combination of clinical insight, strategic foresight, and technology acumen to the boardroom.

Associate Professor Emily Kirkpatrick is a trained General Practitioner, public medicine doctor, healthcare executive and non-executive director in the health and education sectors. She has a track record of driving innovative, complex organisational change, including virtual care and AI governance. She leverages a robust clinical governance and safety reform background, underpinned by formal qualifications and extensive experience as a medical administrator.

In addition, she is a senior clinical lecturer at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Managing Director of the EKology Group and Associate Professor at Adelaide University. She is also the former South Australian Department for Health and Wellbeing Executive Director of Community and Primary Care Partnerships, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at SA Health.

Emily is committed to advancing healthcare through a one-system collaborative approach to care and strategic leadership.

Dr. Rachel Swift is a senior executive, board director and health system leader working at the intersection of health care and technology.

She currently serves as Executive Director, Health Care for Asia & the Pacific at Future Secure AI, where she leads multidisciplinary teams building AI workers that enable the health care workforce to focus their time an expertise on health outcomes. Her work focuses on deploying responsible, human-centred AI to increase clinician capacity, reduce burnout and improve system performance at scale.

Rachel brings over a decade of tier-1 strategy experience with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), alongside executive leadership roles across, corporate and not-for-profit settings. She has a strong track record translating complex, ambiguous challenges into practical strategies and operational outcomes.

Rachel is the Chair of Finance, Audit and Risk Committee, at GPEx. Her other Non-Executive Director roles include Vice-Chair of the Australian Advisory Board on Competitiveness, GMHBA (not-for-profit health insurer) and The Innovation & Enterprise Advisory Board, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Rachel has led global health programs in low-resource settings, including advising the United Nations during the Ebola Emergency Response. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and the Australasian College of Health Systems Management.