About Julian Maiolo

Julian has over 25 years of health care experience as both an industry executive and senior advisor across the Australian Health sector. Prior to joining Paxton Partners his experience included 15 years’ experience as a manager and Senior Executive in major metropolitan Health Services, followed by four years in senior roles in the Health and Human Services practice at KPMG. Julian’s background also includes three years as a specialist clinical costing and financial management system consulting experience.

His knowledge of the sector extends across strategic, operational and technical domains of Health care management. Julian has provided advisory and commercial advice to a range of Australian public and private health service providers and to state and federal levels of Government

Julian’s particular interest is to work with providers, funders and related associations in finding ways to reduce economic and structural impediments that limit the ability to promote more seamless service delivery across the health and community sector as well as working with organisations to improve healthcare financial management capability.

Areas of Expertise

• Financial turnaround and performance improvement
• Activity based costing, clinical costing and funding model frameworks
• Operational performance management, measurement and reporting
• Feasibility assessments, Cost benefit analysis and Business case development
• Governance and accountability frameworks, Budget management and control
• Finance function and CFO advisory
• Organisational improvement and redesign
• Facilitation 

Qualifications and Memberships

• Master of Business Administration, Deakin University
• Qualified CPA, Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants
• Bachelor of Economics (Accounting), Latrobe University
• Associate Fellow, Australian College of Health Service Executives
• Melbourne Business school, Senior Executive Residential program
• Future Focus Group Leadership program, Committee for Melbourne

About Rob Gilbert

Rob has over 25 years’ experience in the Australian health care sector providing organisational and business process consulting in relation to performance management and reporting, strategic planning, costing analysis, shared services, funding models, risk management, organisational financial management capability, financial analysis and due diligence.

Rob’s clients include all segments of the industry including public and private hospitals, mental health providers, primary health providers, suppliers and funders at a Commonwealth and State level.

In particular, Rob has extensive experience in consulting to the diagnostic sector (pathology, medical imaging and radiation oncology) working with funders and providers in both public and private settings in multiple jurisdictions to develop governance and business models at both a statewide and individual provider level. Rob also has extensive experience in developing costing models for statewide diagnostic services as well as individual service providers in multiple jurisdictions dealing with complex funding arrangements including the application of Medicare Benefits Schedule billing rules.

Areas of Expertise

• Contestability studies
• Financial turnaround and performance improvement
• Activity based costing, clinical costing and funding model frameworks
• Financial management capability and finance department structure
• Governance reviews
• Operational performance management, measurement and reporting
• Performance management framework and design
• Shared services advisory
• Cost benefit analysis
• Business case assessment
• Budget management and control
• Organisational improvement and redesign
• Facilitation
• Project management

Qualifications and Memberships

• Bachelor of Commerce, University of Melbourne
• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

About Sean Chung

Sean has over ten years of consulting experience, which includes six years with the Healthcare and Human Services practice of KPMG, across both Australia and Canada. Prior to entering consulting, Sean spent four years in academic health research.

Sean is adept at engaging with stakeholders across the continuum of healthcare service provision, from senior healthcare executives to front line healthcare service providers. His project work has included engagements across all levels of the healthcare system from federal government to operationally within the health system, covering strategic planning, health service and program evaluations, clinical process redesign, development of funding models, health IT/IM strategy, business cases and development of performance and outcomes management frameworks.

Sean has particular interests in the formation and evaluation of collaborative networks to improve health service delivery and the use of technology to facilitate better understanding and management of health and human services clients and system performance.

Complementing his healthcare experience, Sean has worked with government clients in Alcohol and Drug Services, Justice, Education, Child and Youth Services and Community Services.

Areas of Expertise

• Complex program and service evaluation
• Digital health strategy, business requirements development, safety in digital health
• Information Management capability assessment and strategy
• Performance management framework development and implementation
• Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
• Project management

Qualifications and Memberships

• PhD (Molecular Virology), University of Melbourne
• BBiomedSc (Honours), University of Melbourne
• Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Management and Systems (CPHIMS-CA)
• Lean Thinking Fundamentals, Cardiff University (endorsed)
• Member of Health Informatics Society of Australia
• Member of Australasian Evaluation Society

About Nilusha Moses

Nilusha has over ten years’ professional experience across State and Federal Government, predominately in the health portfolio, both as a public servant and as a professional service consultant.

Nilusha is a qualified Accountant with highly developed skills in framework design, development and implementation, intergovernmental relations, and delivering Government-wide strategic and operational documents and processes, based on a strong analytical and financial aptitude and Government understanding.

Her strength is developing and maintaining productive partnerships in her approachable, pleasant and enthusiastic manner.

Accompanying her Health experience, Nilusha has also worked for clients in the Disability, Aged Care, Finance, Environment and Human Services portfolios.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic analysis and planning
• Program and policy design, development and implementation
• Process mapping, redesign and improvement
• Documentation development
• Distilling technical and financial information into various formats and for wide-ranging audiences
• Stakeholder management
• Project management

Qualifications and Memberships

• Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), La Trobe University
• Bachelor of Economics (Economics and Statistics), La Trobe University
• Qualified Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA)
• Member of the CPA Victorian Public Sector and Not-For-Profit Committee

About Derek Keir

Areas of Expertise

• Financial turnaround and performance improvement
• Budget management and control
• Feasibility assessments, cost benefit analysis and business case development
• Program and service evaluation and review
• Financial modelling
• Project management and coordination

Qualifications and Memberships

• Graduate Certificate in Evaluation, University of Melbourne

• Health Program Evaluation (Short Course), University of Melbourne
• Graduate Diploma in Chartered Accounting, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
• Bachelor of Business (Double Major in Accounting and Finance), Edith Cowan University
• Member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

About Daniel West

Daniel has over 10 years’ experience in finance, economics and data analytics across various sectors.

Prior to being a management consultant, Daniel taught financial modelling and corporate finance in La Trobe University’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.

Daniel is particularly passionate about business intelligence, and enjoys working together with his clients to help them:

• Better understand the data that is available to them,
• Develop strategies to improve data quality and data collection,
• Build fit-for-purpose tools to use their data more effectively.

Through working with Daniel, clients have achieved:

• Efficient reporting,
• Extensive operational and financial insight,
• Timely, data-driven decision making.

Areas of Expertise

• Business Intelligence
• Reporting and Data Visualisation
• Financial Modelling
• Business case development
• Statistical optimisation
• Predictive analytics
• Economic Modelling
• Sensitivity analysis
• Scenario modelling

Qualifications and Memberships

• MBA– La Trobe University
• Master of Financial Analysis – La Trobe University
• Bachelor of Economics – University of Canberra

About Hayden Collins

Hayden is an experienced evaluator within the health and ageing sectors. His most recent work has focused on end-of-life care and access to age care services by diverse population groups.

A qualitative specialist, Hayden has conducted evaluations for Commonwealth and State government departments and other not-for-profits to make a judgement on the appropriateness, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and performance of programs and health services. He prides himself on his ability to turn data into actionable insights for clients.

Prior to joining Paxton Partners, Hayden worked at a professional services firm and as the Senior Health Promotion Officer at Swan Hill District Health. Where he developed a strong understanding of the acute and primary health sectors, particularly within rural and regional areas.

Outside of work you will find him exploring the great outdoors or by a swimming pool as part of his role as a Board Director of Swimming Victoria.

Areas of Expertise

• Program and service evaluation
• Stakeholder engagement and management
• Qualitative methods and data analysis
• Monitoring and evaluation framework development
• Project management

Qualifications and Memberships

• Master of Health Economics, Deakin University (currently completing)
• Master of Evaluation, The University of Melbourne
• Bachelor of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
• Member, Australian Evaluation Society

About Tracey Sanderson

Tracey has over 25 years’ direct industry experience in the Australian health care sector, specifically the public and private diagnostic pathology and hospital sectors. Prior to joining Paxton Partners, Tracey spent 10 years at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne.

Tracey has extensive experience in operating across multiple disciplines, with experience in project management and implementation, business case development, tender bid development and analysis, business modelling, financial analysis, performance improvement and budget and report development.

Tracey is adept at using this experience to assess performance and has a highly effective ability to translate data into information to support decision-making. Tracey is able to efficiently and effectively analyse a broad range of data, and engender cooperation and commitment from diverse stakeholder groups.

Areas of Expertise

• Stakeholder engagement
• Activity-based and clinical costing
• Business model review, financial turnaround and performance improvement
• Operational performance management, measurement and reporting
• Cost benefit analysis
• Business case assessment
• Budget management and control
• Organisational improvement and redesign
• Facilitation
• Project management

Qualifications and Memberships

• Bachelor of Business Administration (Year 2 – ongoing), Swinburne University
• Diploma of Management, Swinburne University
• Diploma in Training and Assessment

About Matthew Adams

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications and Memberships

• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in Australia 
• Bachelor of Commerce, Monash University 

About Vatsal Ruparel

Vatsal Ruparel is a consultant at Paxton Partners with extensive experience in financial modelling, analysis and visualisation, and a strong track record of working with various public sector clients. Vatsal specializes in providing advice related to financial and budget management, analysis and interpretation of performance in relation to funding models, and process redesign. 

Areas of Expertise

• Assessment and identification of process improvement opportunities. 

• Financial and economic modelling 

• Financial performance improvement and turnaround 

• Quantitative analysis of data 

• Business case development 

• Stakeholder consultation and engagement 

Qualifications and Memberships

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) – Level II Candidate 

• Master of Management (Finance), University of Melbourne 

• Bachelor of Biomedicine (degree with Honours), University of Melbourne 

About Cassie-lee Osborne

Cassie-lee Osborne is a Consultant at Paxton Partners with over 4 years’ direct industry experience in diagnostics. Prior to joining Paxton Partners, Cassie-lee spent over 2.5 years Technology consulting where she gained experience across a broad range of sectors and fields, including innovation, data analysis, organisational change management, process analysis and project management.  

As a natural problem-solver, Cassie-lee has a highly collaborative style of working and is passionate about developing tailored solutions to meet her client’s specific needs. She brings a strong sense of positivity to her projects and is dedicated to making a positive change within healthcare.

On the weekend, you will find Cassie-lee out for brunch, at the beach or at the movies. She also enjoys stand-up paddle boarding, travelling and sweaty spin classes.

Areas of Expertise

• Process mapping, redesign and improvement
• Organisational change management
• Documentation development
• Economic Modelling
• Cost benefit analysis
• Qualitative and Quantitative analysis
• Workshop design and development (including for innovation engagements)
• Stakeholder engagement
• Project management

Qualifications and Memberships

• Master of Economics and Public Policy – University of Queensland
• Bachelor of Applied (Medical) Science – Queensland University of Technology

About Hannah O'Brien

Hannah is the tech-obsessed Office Manager for Paxton Partners.

After spending ten years as a digital marketer and operations manager in the technology and entrepreneurship industries, she is excited to be bringing her extensive business and project management skills to a new industry.  She is passionate about mental health and well-being in the workplace, as well as streamlining workflows with integrations and automation. On weekends you'll find her breaking out of an escape room, finding somewhere to go kayaking or trying to finally finish Breath of the Wild. Ask her for a podcast recommendation!

Areas of Expertise

• Business operations
• Project management
• Digital marketing
• Event management