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.

Julia has been Chief Counsel, Legal at Catholic Healthcare since 2003. Having completed an Arts Degree (Honours), Law Degree (Honours) and a Masters of Arts in Theology, Julia began her career at international law firm Freehills. In 2017, Julia was named one of the top 12 in-house counsels in health and aged care. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Sydney School of Law and the University of Notre Dame Australia. She is a frequent presenter and chair of conferences on aged care law.

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, Home and Community Services, Retirement Living and Healthcare 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.

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.

Bruce joined Catholic Healthcare as Interim General Manager, Property and Facilities in 2022. Bruce is a former partner of the specialist residential aged care and retirement living advisory firms One Fell Swoop and Premier Consulting Australia, with a background in the banking and finance sectors. Over the past 18 years, he has consulted to many of the major not-for-profit and for-profit aged care and retirement operators, providing comprehensive financial advice, research and advisory services. Bruce is committed to bring about sector change through achieving more efficient operating performance, financial return outcomes and built-form considerations to improve consumer and care outcomes.

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.

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.

Currently the Interim Director of Mission, Margaret has been with Catholic Healthcare for 11 years. She brings to the role expertise as a teacher and principal for more than 30 years, working as Religious Education Coordinator, Assistant Principal and Primary Principal. Margaret has a Bachelor of Education, Masters of Education specialising in Community and Adult Education, and a Graduate Diploma in Religious Education. In her current role, Margaret is responsible for the development of the philosophy, vision, values and ethics of Catholic Healthcare’s Mission. Through Pastoral Care, Margaret and the Mission team seek to provide ongoing assistance to clients and residents, to prevent social exclusion and to promote emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

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.