Executive Leadership Team

Paul is Chief Executive Officer at the Care Connect Group, Australia’s largest independent homecare provider operating entirely on the ‘connector model’. With 20 years international experience in private health and homecare, Paul has a strong track record in building leading health service organisations.

With the ongoing developments in Aged and Disability services, Paul and his team are focused on reinforcing the organisation’s role as an Independent Advisor and Service Connector, supporting people to build effective plans for their future, connect with the best providers in their community and ensure they’re living their life, through their choices and in their way.

Renee has over 20 years experience in mainly generalist Human Resources roles across professional services, gaming and entertainment and retail. Renee comes to Care Connect with extensive experience driving the design and implementation of people solutions in order to create lasting organisational change.

Renee’s last nine years within one of the Big 4 accounting firms positions her well for understanding the important advisory services our people provide our clients as they navigate complex changes in the sector.

Frank is an experienced and commercially well-rounded Finance leader with strong values, integrity, and results. He is passionate about transforming F&A teams into strategic business partners, leading digital transformation, and leveraging data and analysis to drive business results.

Frank brings more than 18 years of proven management and leadership skills in a global environment across not-for-profit and for-profit sectors, including Aged Care and FMCG. In his most recent role prior to joining Care Connect, Frank was the Financial Controller at a large not-for-profit aged care, disability, and community services provider, leading the Finance team through a period of significant growth and change, including a major acquisition and wide-ranging government reforms.

A results-driven leader with proven abilities in business development, commercial analysis, and marketing excellence, Deanne brings extensive commercial healthcare experience to Care Connect through her work in the pharmaceutical and consumable medical services sectors, and as the founder and Principal of a successful healthcare marketing consultancy.

Deanne’s greatest strengths are her creativity, drive and leadership. She thrives on being able to develop the organisation to better support its clients. Her most recent role was with Vision Australia, a leading not-for-profit that supports people who are blind or have low vision.

Deanne lives on the outskirts of Melbourne on a small farm with her partner, children, two crazy hounds and ten horses!  In her free time, she likes to get out and get her hands dirty in the garden.

Kylie is passionate about driving accountability and uplifting performance plus creating capacity and capability for empowered employees and sustainable business outcomes in the future.  She is committed to the Care Connect quality practice approach that builds knowledge, delivers consistently and ensures safe, effective, personal and connected services.

Kylie has a somewhat different background for a HR professional; initially studying a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and working for large multinational manufacturing organisations in both engineering and quality / compliance roles.  Kylie has expanded her educational base in quality management systems, business auditing, training and assessment plus human resource management.

Following 15 years in manufacturing, plus eight years experience in the private health sector, she offers unique insights into the challenges of attracting and retaining a culturally aligned workforce.

David has spent 20 years working in technology within the health and human services sectors. He has transformed businesses with large scale complex technology within a variety of clinical and non-clinical environments. This experience has allowed him to appreciate the unique technology, people and process challenges when delivering high quality client services. He has a passion to advance technology utilisation within the sector and help improve business and client outcomes through innovation.

David has held a wide variety of technology roles across his career including infrastructure, software deployment, architecture, and business intelligence. He has led large teams to deliver digital innovation projects, national and international system deployments, and organisational change programmes. He believes in maximising the benefit from technology investment through aligning technology and business strategy.