Karen Borg was appointed CEO in 2021.

She brings extensive leadership experience across commercial and government organisations. She was CEO for Healthdirect Australia and Jobs for NSW, and President - Asia Pacific for ResMed, and Vice President, Worldwide Marketing - Advanced Sterilization Products for Johnson and Johnson. 

Karen’s deep experience in understanding the needs of customers augurs well for Catholic Healthcare's focus on residents, clients, patients and their carers, and the organisation's commitment to be responsive and innovative. Karen is an authentic, values-based leader with a strong, personal commitment to building a culture based on trust and transparency.  

Karen is a non-executive director for Optiscan (ASX:OIL) and Somnomed (ASX:SOM) and was a finalist in the 2017 Telstra Business Woman of the Year Awards.

David Bergman is the Chief Financial Officer for Catholic Healthcare and has over 25 years experience in the health, aged and community care sectors. David commenced his career with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in audit and corporate finance primarily in the finance sector with experience in both Australia and London.

David then moved into the commercial area working with Orix, Macquarie Bank and Little Company of Mary Healthcare (Calvary) in senior finance, treasury, ICT and management roles.

David has been on a number of charitable boards for not for profit care activities and chaired audit and risk committees.

He holds a Bachelors of Commerce and a Masters of Economics. He is a Chartered accountant and a graduate of the Institute of Company Directors.

Josh McFarlane is the Chief Operating Officer leading the Residential Care, Health and Home and Community Services divisions. Josh has significant experience in the Aged Care sector in leadership, strategy, care redesign and transformation across some of Australia’s largest aged care providers. Josh also brings a wealth of experience to Catholic Healthcare from a range of ASX listed organisations across manufacturing, mining, finance, and management consultancy.

Josh’s qualifications include a Master of Business Administration, Masters of Marketing, Bachelor of Business, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Josh is a passionate leader within the for-purpose sector and strives for better outcomes for who we support across our services and the broader community.

Therese Adami is the General Manager for Catholic Healthcare Community Services. Therese started her career as Registered Nurse and then Hospital Executive Officer.

Therese is an experienced and strategic business leader in the health and aged care sector for over 19 years. Therese has extensive experience in managing high performing teams, creating and driving customer strategies that strengthen revenue and building new business in the health and homecare industry. 

Therese holds a Bachelor of Nursing and a Masters in Business Administration. Therese also completed the Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors certification. She also holds qualifications from Harvard Business School in Leadership and Change Management.

Julie Toma is currently the Head of Marketing and Communications for Catholic Healthcare with significant healthcare leadership experience gained in large, global corporations including Sonic Clinical Services, Cochlear Limited, Kimberly-Clark Healthcare and BD.

Julie’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Biomedical Science, Majoring in Biochemistry, a Master in Business Administration, Majoring in Marketing Strategy and is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Julie is currently a Board Director for the Australian Dental Health Foundation and the Barbara May Foundation, with previous board roles including LiveBetter and the Asthma Foundation ACT; an AMI Marketing Awards for Excellence Judge and past AMI NSW State Committee Chair; a past International Business Awards Judge and CXO Leaders Awards Judge as well as a member of the Cancer Australia Research Grant Advisory Committee.

Julie is passionate about strategic marketing planning, brand management, stakeholder engagement and customer experience. Julie was a finalist in the CEO Magazine Executive of the Year Awards 2017 and 2019 as well as being shortlisted for the Telstra Business Women’s Awards in 2019.

Brett is our Chief Information Officer. Brett is an accomplished and highly experienced senior executive with experience both domestically and internationally across a range of industries including human resources, technology, consulting, engineering, construction and financial services.

Prior to Catholic Healthcare, Brett was at Hudson where he held the role of Asia Pacific Director, Information Technology. Brett has a successful track record in leading IT organisational change and transformation, building high performing teams and is passionate about workplace culture, leadership and developing strong business relationships, driving value through the use of technology.

Brett has a Master’s of Business and Technology from University New South Wales and post graduate qualifications in management from Macquarie University.

Jill started her career as a strategy consultant in a major international consulting firm where she worked in teams designing and delivering transformational projects for corporations in a broad range of industries in Australia, Asia and the USA. Since then, she has obtained extensive experience in strategic management roles in both the listed for-profit and social for-purpose sectors.

Jill holds a Bachelor of Economics (Class 1 Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Business Administration from INSEAD Business School in France.

Elizabeth is Executive Secretary to the Trustees of Catholic Healthcare, the Public Juridic Person (PJP) and Company Secretary of Catholic Healthcare.

Elizabeth began her career as lawyer working in the area of corporate litigation and then moved into corporate commercial law where she gained extensive experience in a wide range of company and commercial law issues. 

Prior to joining Catholic Healthcare, Elizabeth worked as Deputy Company Secretary at Sydney Airports Corporation.

Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from University of Sydney.  She is also a member of the Governance Institute of Australia.

Erica leads a newly created function, Clinical Governance and Safe Care. Erica and her team act as advisors, partners and subject matter experts in all matters related to clinical governance and safe care.

Erica joins us from Anglicare where she was most recently General Manager, Service Development and Practice Governance.

Clinical Governance and Safe Care will be independent of the operating teams for all our services, including Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Home and Community Services. Together the new team will be dedicated to enabling our organisation to meet and exceed the Aged Care Quality and Safety Standards, the NDIS Quality Standards and all other compliance requirements aligned to our services.

Catherine brings expansive human resource experience from multiple sectors including healthcare, technology, hospitality, and property management and has also worked with organisations in other parts of the world.

Catherine's most recent role was Chief People Officer at Greengate Partnership Pty Ltd, a retirement living and boutique aged care village provider in NSW and Queensland, supporting their teams within their residential aged care and retirement living communities.