Director
Greg is a chartered accountant with significant financial and strategic advisory experience within the health sector over the last 25 years. Before establishing O’Connell Advisory in 2007, Greg Anderson had health sector leadership responsibility within a leading financial institution and prior to that a ‘big 4′ accounting firm where he led the health consulting practice…
Director
James joined O’Connell Advisory in 2014 initially providing advice to aged care, disability services and health services organisations. He has since gone on to focus primarily on the provision of executive management services for a number of small independent Aged Care Providers…
Director
Before establishing O’Connell Advisory, Helen was a Senior Manager in the Health practice of PwC, and prior to that was with Deloitte Consulting. Helen has over 35 years’ experience working in the health, community and disability services sectors…
Director
Lindsay is a chartered accountant with over 25 years of experience working in and supporting the health sector. Lindsay’s roles have included CFO, Company Secretary, and Chief Operating Officer for listed and unlisted businesses…
Jack is a financial analyst and has extensive experience within the hospital financing and cost modelling environments. Jack has worked in senior accounting roles for hospital providers. He was a senior management accountant for Wesley Mission for eight years…
Nurse Advisor and Clinical Care Consultant
Annika Thomas is a qualified Registered Nurse with over 16 years’ experience in the health care industry. Annika has worked solely in senior roles in the aged care sector in the past 6 years including: Care Manager, Facility Manager and General Manager. Annika provides a range of independent Quality Reviews, Aged Care Administrator & Nurse Advisor Services…
Hayley has qualifications in public health and social policy and is a Director and Partner of O’Connell Advisory. Hayley has over 20 years’ experience in health strategy development, policy development, analysis, technical reviews, advocacy and high level stakeholder engagement and negotiation.
Hayley’s experience includes working for NSW Health in several senior roles including Associate Director, Strategy, Quality and System Performance and Acting Director, Cancer Services and Information in which led cancer performance reporting, providing data insights and communication to executives in local health districts, private hospitals, primary health networks and Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations.
She has experience in commissioning and managing evaluations of health programs and has been responsible for the design and delivery of significant health reform including in primary care, population health, cancer and Aboriginal health. Hayley has experience working with young people; having led the Adolescent and Young People NSW cancer portfolio and leading a number of population health projects supporting youth health and wellness.
Leigh McWhirter has a Bachelor of Business Management and an MBA from Macquarie University. Leigh’s consulting experience with O’Connell Advisory includes financial and activity modelling, preparation of Financial Impact Statements (FIS) for major capital projects and the preparation of private hospital feasibility studies. Prior to joining O’Connell, Leigh held a management role in the mental health industry, where he led a team of account managers and service delivery coordinators. His responsibilities included business analysis and strategy, and the management of customer relationships, contracts, and pricing to achieve revenue and profitability targets. Leigh has also previously worked in Sales and Account Management roles and he has a proven track record of establishing performance metrics and driving process improvements.
Carrie’s qualifications are a Bachelors in Commerce (Finance major with Distinction) (UNSW) and a Bachelors in Materials Science and Engineering (First Class Honours) (UNSW).
She has superior analytical skills and enjoys working in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams to develop solutions for our clients.
Depending on the project we are engaged in, we can access other professionals including statisticians, health economists, medical specialists and other healthcare professionals