Executive leaders

Michele is an accomplished Chief Executive, Director and leader with over 38 years of experience in the health and human services sectors. In addition to her Ochre Health roles, she is the Governing Board Chair for the Eyre Far North Local Health Network of SA Health, Non-Executive Director of Unity Housing Company, and a member of the SA Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board. She also chairs the SA Oral Health Plan Monitoring Group and she serves on the committee of SA Statewide Clinical Support Services. With her foundation as a Registered Nurse, Michele is a Fellow of both the Australasian College of Health Service Managers and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and she received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2023 for services to medical administration. Her leadership style is marked by authenticity and a pragmatic and collaborative approach, ensuring sustainable, community-centric outcomes in complex healthcare environments.

A Chartered Accountant, Patrick qualified at KPMG, spending seven years in the firm’s Audit and Advisory divisions. He then moved to London, where he held senior finance roles in the media and financial services industries, before moving to New York, where he was Finance Director of American Stock Transfer & Trust (now Equiniti US). Returning to Australia in 2020, he established a CFO advisory and deal support consultancy firm through which he formed a relationship with Ochre. Taking on the role of CFO in 2024, Patrick is responsible for all of our financial operations, including strategy, planning and team leadership, to facilitate our market-leading support for GPs and their delivery of quality healthcare.

With 20 years of experience in senior executive roles including at McDonald’s Australia and Telstra, Jason has spent the last decade in the healthcare sector. In this time, he has focused on building, growing and improving organisations’ systems, processes and people capabilities across telehealth, occupational medicine, allied health and specialist services areas. As Chief Operating Officer, Jason is responsible for the national management of medical centres, supporting doctors in patient care and operationalising “The Ochre Way” to ensure that our clinics are easy to access, friendly to deal with and operating efficiently – every time, every day.

With over 20 years of experience in the recruitment industry, including senior leadership roles with Charterhouse Medical, WorkPac and Adecco, Tracy’s expertise spans recruitment strategy and team transformation, empowering organisations to develop effective and adaptive talent acquisition processes. As the current Chair of ANRA, the peak body for recruitment in healthcare, community care and disability support, she is also dedicated to collaborating with industry stakeholders to advance best practices and drive innovation. Tracy joined the Ochre Group in 2024 and she leads talent, workforce solutions and GP practice opportunities.

A registered nurse by background, Linda has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare sector. She worked as a nurse and a nurse educator in various major hospitals in and around Brisbane before joining Medibank Health Solutions in 2012. There she led the Resource Nurse Team before becoming Practice Manager for Nurse Triage Operations and then Head of Mental Health. She joined Ochre Health as a Regional Manager in 2017. In her current roles, she leads nursing and operations teams focused on improving support, skills and performance across our medical centre network.

Sean has over 20 years of experience in marketing, communications, business development and customer experience leadership roles spanning healthcare, professional services and consulting. He is a Fellow and Lifetime Member of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) and he has won four AMI Marketing Excellence Awards at national level including the Campaign of the Year. As Chief Marketing Officer, Sean is responsible for marketing strategy and campaigns founded in “The Ochre Way”, supporting both our growth targets and our model of being engaged by independent GPs in their delivery of quality, patient-centric care.

Clinton leads our property management portfolio, including handling leasing, rental agreements and facilities management. He is also responsible for procurement and new business opportunities. He has a finance background, including CPA and CIMA qualifications, as well as an MBA from the University of Auckland, and his roles before joining Ochre Health in 2020 included Commercial Manager of Sunshine Coast Airport and Commercial Manager of Humes, a division of Fletcher Building Group.

Before moving to the healthcare sector, Melissa spent 20 years in retail and consumer goods in a wide variety of commercial, divisional, regional and product management roles. These included stints with David Jones, Sheridan, premium brand importer/distributor Sheldon and Hammond, Luxottica and Coles Supermarkets. She joined Ochre Health in 2017 with responsibility for our fast-growing network of medical centres in the ACT, where we are a service-provider to nearly independent 100 doctors, and our rural and regional practices in Southern NSW and Victoria.

After spending over 20 years working for businesses focused on animal nutrition and care, including Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Petbarn and veterinary clinic operator Greencross, Sean made the transition to human healthcare when he joined Ochre Health in 2020. He is applying his expertise in managing multi-site service operations, as well as building and leading high performing teams, to our network of medical centres from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland to Northern NSW.

Before moving into healthcare, Tegan worked in customer service before spending over 20 years in the NSW Police Force, rising through the ranks to District Manager. She holds an MBA and, having spent her life and career in regional and remote NSW, she is a passionate advocate for retaining and attracting skills in those areas.  She joined Ochre Health in 2023 and she is applying her ‘branch network’ experience to managing our practices across central and western NSW, from Wentworth Falls to Bourke.

Darren has spent his whole career working in customer-focused organisations with extensive ‘branch’ networks. Before joining Ochre Health in 2021, he was Store Operations Manager for Super Retail Group – BCF. Prior to that, he spent 30 years with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in management roles for regions including Tasmania, the Central Coast of NSW, Sydney and Melbourne, before becoming Executive Manager of Group Retail Sales & Service. Based in Hobart, he is responsible for our Tasmanian practice network and our contracts to support local hospital emergency departments.