Cameron Foote (Chair)

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Cameron has been a pharmacy owner since 1995. Cameron is a passionate advocate for community pharmacy and has extensive experience in pharmacy management, team leadership, harm minimisation, pharmacy intern training and aged care.

He has represented the profession on a number of industry bodies including the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority and the Darling Downs and West Moreton Primary Health Network and was a member of the Interim Pharmacy Roundtable.

Brett Simmonds (Deputy Chair)

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Brett is Program Director, Regulation in Pharmacy Education and Practice at the School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland.

Brett was a member of the Pharmacy Board of Australia for 12 years, including six years as Chair, during which he gained extensive regulatory experience. Brett also was a previous owner of three pharmacy businesses.

Brett is the current Chair of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Agency Scheduled Medicines Expert Committee and Chair of the Regulators Advisory Group of the Federation of International Pharmacists.

He is passionate about pharmacists taking a leading role in primary health care and using their skills to expand their involvement in patient care.

Skye Bowie

Skye Bowie

Skye is an experienced lawyer, non-executive director and senior executive with a career spanning diverse international and Australian industries.

Her career has navigated prosecutions, licensing and regulation, superannuation and insurance, international capital markets and banking, with a common thread of strengthening governance maturity, improving decision quality, and supporting reform without compromising trust.

Skye joined the Council to contribute strong legal and regulatory expertise to support and maintain public confidence in the pharmacy profession.

Emma Conway

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Emma is a community pharmacist. She is currently Pharmacist Manager at LiveLife Pharmacy Laidley, playing a crucial role in delivering high-quality pharmacy services to the Lockyer Valley region. Her expertise encompasses home medicine reviews, rural health, mental health, and chronic disease management. Emma is committed to supporting potential pharmacy owners.

Emma is an active leader within the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, both through the Queensland Branch Committee and the Early Career Pharmacist Leadership Team.

Amy Ford

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Amy is an experienced pharmacist and credentialed diabetes educator, with over 17 years of experience as a community pharmacy owner. She has founded and developed multiple greenfield pharmacies, bringing expertise in the operational, financial, and regulatory domains of community pharmacy ownership.

Amy has a background in both independent and branded pharmacy models and holds advisory roles within the pharmacy sector.

Peter Jones

Peter Jones

Peter has been a community pharmacy owner for over a decade. He continues to work in-store several days each week alongside his business partners.

His experience spans dispensary and retail operations, dose administration aids,  pharmacy services, vaccination programs, pharmacist recruitment, supplier and inventory management, and the acquisition and integration of multi-site pharmacy groups.

Peter has a particular interest in the commercial pressures facing community pharmacy, including margin compression and workforce supply challenges, and in how automation and technology can free up pharmacist time for clinical and patient-facing work. He is also interested in the role of regulation in supporting positive patient outcomes.

Adam Rodger

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Adam is the Managing Director of Thrive Pharmacies. With over a decade of experience as a pharmacy owner, Adam brings a wealth of knowledge in both pharmacy practice and business management.

His industry experience spans clinical practice, compounding, operations, legal compliance, financial management, human resources, and overall business strategy.

Kiran Sarai

Kiran Sarai

Kiran is an experienced senior executive and governance professional with more than 25 years’ experience across banking and financial services, corporate and small to medium business, Government, statutory regulation, strategic advisory, sport and community organisations.

Kiran brings a distinctive combination of commercial strategy and growth, financial stewardship, Government and corporate connectivity, stakeholder leadership, and digital and data insight.  Her extensive career in banking and finance has included working closely with small and medium businesses, providing a strong understanding of their commercial, financial and operational environments. She has also held senior roles within national organisations and worked extensively with Boards, CEOs, senior executives, Government, regulators and industry bodies.

Kiran is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Finance from UNSW.

Professor Julie-Anne Tarr

Julie-Anne Tarr

Julie-Anne is a commercial law specialist who bring a strong background in health services, regulation and contracting. She has served as a non-executive director for two decades across public and private boards, including the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, where she chaired Audit and Risk, and the Gold Coast Primary Health Network, where she chaired Finance, Audit and Risk. She was previously Chief Operating Officer of QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.

Her specialist research and teaching fields are insurance, risk management, and governance.

A Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law at the Queensland University of Technology, she holds a PhD (Qld), JD (Cornell), LLM (Monash), BA (Wis), and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Chih-Hsin (Lisa) Wang

Lisa Wang

Lisa is a community pharmacist with more than 25 years’ experience and over a decade as a pharmacy owner.

Her career combines clinical expertise with business leadership across independent and branded pharmacy models.

Her experience spans professional pharmacy services, regulatory compliance, financial management and workforce leadership.

Lisa brings a practical perspective on the evolving community pharmacy landscape and the future of the profession.

Vassillis (Lakis) Zeniou

Vassillis (Lucky) Zeniou, Registered pharmacist

Lakis is a registered pharmacist and previous pharmacy business owner. He has worked with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector for over 15 years, including the past 10 years as Senior Pharmacist at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH).

Lakis is a member of the IUIH Network Health Quality and Safety Committee, Pharmaceutical Society Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Practice Community of Special Interest Leadership Group, QUT Safe Prescribing and QUM Program Advisory Group, and Clinical Expert Advisory Panel member for the QUM Palliative Care Medicines Consortium Project.

In 2022, Lakis was awarded the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Queensland Pharmacist of the Year (Bowl of Hygeia) Award, in recognition of his contribution to the pharmacy profession.