Having commenced with Raven's in August 2002, Heidi has experience across all areas of the Raven's Recruitment business beginning as a Consultant and then taking over the management of the business in 2005.  She is now the GM and HR Specialist (Diploma of Human Resources).

With her extensive knowledge of the pharmacy market and all aspects of HR, Heidi is able to offer our clients a genuine and specialised service. This translates into more successful outcomes as she fully understands the knowledge, skills and experience required for your business.

Heidi leads the team by example and is all about building long term and mutually sustainable relationships with pharmacy owners and employee Pharmacists alike.  Heidi encourages this in each of her team.

With her wealth of knowledge in all things to do with the pharmacy employment market Heidi is often sought out by the media for her thoughts on the latest industry recruitment and talent identification trends.

As GM, Heidi has focused on building a high performance team of recruitment specialists who have best outcomes for their clients and candidates at the heart of all they do.  At the end of the day, she recognises this is how you build a brand that people come to know and trust and are willing to recommend.

Professor Trent Twomey was elected as National President of The Pharmacy Guild of Australia in March 2021.

Trent has been involved with the Guild for over 10 years and was part of the successful negotiating team for the Sixth and Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreements. He is Secretary of the World Pharmacy Council, immediate Past Chairman and Director of Advance Cairns, a Professor at James Cook University, a Council Member of the Queensland Futures Institute, and a trustee for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.

Trent and his wife are both pharmacists and own a small group of pharmacies in Northern Queensland.

Emma McBride is the Federal Member for the electorate of Dobell, on the Central Coast of NSW and was elected in 2016. After the 2019 election Emma was appointed Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Shadow Assistant Minister for Carers. Emma was the Deputy Chair of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in 2021. Following the 2022 election, Emma McBride was appointed Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention and Assistant Minister for Rural and Regional Health. Emma worked in health for over 20 years, both in Australia and abroad. She was a Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist and the Chief Pharmacist at Wyong Hospital, and prior to her election to Parliament, was the Deputy Director of Pharmacy for Central Coast Local Health District. Emma’s background in a range of health care settings provides a unique platform to promote better health services for both her local area and the broader community. Emma is a passionate advocate for quality healthcare, close to home. Emma recognises the unique challenges facing rural and regional communities in accessing health care and hopes to help shape public policy that promotes the health and wellbeing of all Australians, regardless of where they live.

Krysti-Lee Patterson is a passionate and experienced pharmacist leader with a deep understanding of the evolving Australian pharmacy landscape developed from over 15 years of experience in the pharmacy industry. As the Founder and Managing Director of Meitheal Services, she leverages her expertise to empower pharmacies to thrive in a changing environment.

Her expertise lies in strategic consultation, advisory support, industry navigation, educational content development, and leadership development. Throughout her career, Krysti-Lee has demonstrated a strong commitment to driving positive change in the pharmacy sector, focusing on areas like revenue growth, service excellence, and patient care.

Krysti-Lee is a highly sought-after speaker and is known for her engaging presentations and insightful perspectives. She is dedicated to empowering pharmacists and pharmacy teams to reach their full potential and deliver exceptional care to their communities.

Dr Fei Sim is the National President and Chair of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Board, the first female, and the first from a diverse cultural background to be elected to this position since its Federation in 1977. Fei served as the WA State President of the PSA between 2017-2021, before she was elected to serve on the national Board. She is the Chair of the inaugural PSA Contemporary Community Pharmacy Practice (CCPP) Communities of Specialty Interest, which is a forum to support collaboration, innovation and strategic progression of various practice areas in pharmacy. Fei is a Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator of International Engagement in the Curtin Medical School at Curtin University, Western Australia. Fei holds a Doctoral degree in Pharmacy, is a practising pharmacist, a community pharmacy owner, a pharmacist immuniser and an Accredited Mental Health First Aid Instructor. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the PSA, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Fei serves on a number of profession and academic-related committees, and is fully committed to the pharmacy profession and is passionate about the future of the profession through growth of professional services to attain the highest level of contemporary pharmacist practice. Through her teaching and research activities as an academic, Fei is committed to motivating and inspiring students to become excellent and competent future pharmacists, and encouraging them to have the courage and aspiration to be future leaders in the primary healthcare team. 

Fei has led and is involved in a number of research projects and trials aiming to provide evidence to support the great contribution of pharmacists, including in the area of pharmacist-led immunisation, mental health, primary care and minor ailments management and diabetes. Her teaching awards, the 2018 PSA WA Early Career Pharmacist Award and the 2019 PSA National Early Career Pharmacist of the Year Award are testimony to her commitment to patient care, learning and teaching, leadership in pharmacy, innovation and initiative in pharmacy service delivery, as well as peer and professional engagement.

Tom Simpson is the President of SHPA, having been elected in December 2022. Tom is also the Executive Director, Statewide Hospital Pharmacy Tasmania, and has held positions as Chair, Statewide Pharmacy Executive Committee, the Tasmanian Minister’s Health Council and the Pharmacy Board of Tasmania.

Tom is a member of the SHPA Leadership and Management Specialty Practice Leadership Committee and holds a conjoint position as Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Tasmania School of Pharmacy.

Tom was awarded 2018 Tasmanian Pharmacist of the Year and the 2019 SHPA Medal of Merit, recognising outstanding contribution to pharmacy practice locally and nationally.

Professor Trent Twomey was elected as National President of The Pharmacy Guild of Australia in March 2021.

Trent has been involved with the Guild for over 10 years and was part of the successful negotiating team for the Sixth and Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreements. He is Secretary of the World Pharmacy Council, immediate Past Chairman and Director of Advance Cairns, a Professor at James Cook University, a Council Member of the Queensland Futures Institute, and a trustee for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.

Trent and his wife are both pharmacists and own a small group of pharmacies in Northern Queensland.

Kristina Fox is a proud community pharmacist who wants to revolutionise the industry. Kristina has a passion for improving patient health outcomes through innovation and is focused on meeting the needs of her local community through specialising in NDIS, medicinal cannabis, IVF, minor ailments and compounding services. Kristina believes collaborating with other health professionals is critical to delivering holistic health solutions and that by working together, they can leverage their respective expertise to provide the best possible care for patients. She is also committed to delivering complete care and achieving positive health outcomes for patients.

Daniel has over 25 years of experience in marketing and communications, working with a wide range of clients including SMEs, NFPs, international brands, and governments. This includes hosting and producing the Guild’s PBCN Podcast. Daniel was a co-founder of SponServe, a SaaS sponsorship platform, and developed Marketing Builder, a unique, card sorting-based approach to help businesses build a marketing plan. Daniel has a Master of Marketing (with Distinction) and tutors at university across management and marketing units.

Christian Portelli is a pharmacist at Pharmacy 777 in Karratha, WA, recognized for his excellence with the MIMS/Guild Intern of the Year 2023 Award. His passion for fostering a love of science in young minds led him to actively engage with the Little Scientists Program during his intern year. Through this initiative, Christian organized activities to spark children's interest in STEM subjects, laying a foundation for their understanding of pharmacy. Beyond his involvement with Little Scientists, Christian has demonstrated his commitment to community health by creating a tailored first aid treatment brochure for his patients. His dedication to both his profession and community showcases him as a pharmacist who goes above and beyond to serve and educate others.

Lucy Walker has owned and operated the rural TerryWhite Chemmart Goondiwindi for the past 10 years. It was the 2017 Guild Pharmacy of the Year and continues to be an innovative community focused health destination. Lucy has a broad range of pharmacy experience, working in hospital pharmacy, overseas in the UK, as well as academic detailing and conducting home medicine reviews. Lucy is the Southwest Queensland representative for the Queensland Guild Committee and is on the advisory board of TerryWhite Chemmart. Lucy was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2018 and travelled around the world looking at innovative pharmacy practices to bring back to Australia. She is currently undertaking the Queensland full scope training with the hope of improving access to health services in her rural community.

Peter Guthrey holds the position of Senior Pharmacist, Strategic Policy at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. Peter supports policy development, advocacy activities, regulatory submissions and practice advice. In the past few years, Peter has led practice guidance and support to the profession in response to COVID19, including PSA's COVID-19 microsite and PSA ECP Facebook group. 

Peter has driven key PSA policy work, including Pharmacists in 2023, medicine safety agenda and Australian Pharmacist – and is currently focussed on two major works – the next Professional Practice Standards and the sequel to Pharmacists in 2023. He has over 14 years’ experience in pharmacy policy, regulation, advocacy, quality management and community pharmacy practice. Peter maintains practice as a community pharmacist, working in an after-hours role at Melbourne’s Ascot Vale Pharmacy, one of Melbourne’s 24 hour Supercare pharmacies

Graduating with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Curtin University, Ayomide completed her internship with Pharmacy 777 Whitford City in Perth, Western Australia. Her passion, organisation and innovation in professional services delivery earned her the national 2019 MIMs PSA Intern Pharmacist of the Year.

Driven by a passion for digital health transformation, Ayomide is currently pursuing a PhD at Curtin Medical School, where she focuses on evaluating the technological needs of community pharmacists to enable contemporary pharmacy practice. Alongside her research, she serves as a community pharmacist and sessional academic, contributing to the Bachelor and Master of Pharmacy programs at Curtin Medical School. In 2023, Ayomide was awarded PSA WA early career pharmacist of the year, for her contribution to pharmacy practice research and teaching, and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of her commitment to teaching and learning excellence.

Ayomide was elected to the WA Branch Committee in 2020, where she currently serves as Vice President. Having been involved in the state and national Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Early Career Pharmacist (ECP) group, Ayomide is the current PSA ECP Board Appointed Director and chair of the PSA ECP Community of Special Interest. She is also a member of the Membership, Products & Services Committee.

Erica Marsom currently works for the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) team as the Lead Pharmacist for Workforce Programs. Within this role, Erica contributes to the ongoing development of the SHPA Resident Training Program and Registrar Training Program across Australia and the recently launched Australian & New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy (ANZCAP). Erica draws on her 11 years' experience in hospital clinical pharmacy and pharmacy education and is passionate about educating and empowering career development opportunities for early career pharmacists.

A Registered Migration Agent, with a combined 20+ years of experience in both HR and Migration. Virginia has an intimate knowledge of the strategy required to assist businesses in attracting international talent, with a determination to find a compliant solution for each individual who wants to live or work in Australia.

Virginia maintains a high level of knowledge of immigration laws and policies to provide up-to-date and accurate advice for all her clients.

Scott Harris is a workplace relations specialist with 25 years of experience across multiple industry sectors. He is currently employed as the Director, Workplace Relations & Business with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.

Scott has previously worked in both the public and private sectors as the workplace relations manager or specialist, and as a human resources manager for international companies. Scott's experience and knowledge directly assist businesses in improving their operations regarding corporate performance and employment management.

Scott holds Master's degrees in Industrial Relations, Business Administration and Legal Studies from Charles Sturt University.

Daniel has over 25 years of experience in marketing and communications, working with a wide range of clients including SMEs, NFPs, international brands, and governments. This includes hosting and producing the Guild’s PBCN Podcast. Daniel was a co-founder of SponServe, a SaaS sponsorship platform, and developed Marketing Builder, a unique, card sorting-based approach to help businesses build a marketing plan. Daniel has a Master of Marketing (with Distinction) and tutors at university across management and marketing units.

Angus Barnes is a 3rd year Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) student at the Univeristy of Newcastle, with a strong interest in expanding Pharmacists Scope of Practice and promoting equitable healthcare to all Australian communities.

Mia Curigliano is a fourth year Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) student at Monash University with a passion for supporting and promoting the health of the local community. She taken part in a number of university initiatives and has worked with students and academics on various projects. Mia is currently completing her fourth year inquiry project at the University of North Carolina.

Professor Kirstie Galbraith is an internationally recognised expert in practitioner development across the lifecycle of undergraduates to Advanced Practice Pharmacists, with demonstrated leadership in engagement across academic and practice settings. Her local, national and international leadership in pharmacy practice and education has been recognised with numerous credentials and Fellowships, and most recently with her promotion to Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Education at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University.

Dr Jacinta Johnson holds a joint appointment as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the University of South Australia, and Senior Pharmacist for Research within SA Pharmacy, the statewide public hospital pharmacy service. Dr Johnson has over 10 years’ experience teaching within the pharmacy program at University of South Australia and is recognised as a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy for her expertise in education and research.

Mr Caspar Townsend is a 4th Year Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) Student at Curtin University, with an interest in clinical care and the promotion of diversity within pharmacy.

Professor Joseph Tucci is a registered practicing pharmacist and Pharmacy Discipline Lead, in the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Bendigo. Professor Tucci has a background in developmental biology, having completed his PhD at the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, Melbourne, and subsequently taken up a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, U.K. He is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy.

Kay is passionate about the health and well-being of health professionals.  After forging a career based in hospital pharmacy, Kay has over the years also been involved in roles providing services which support pharmacists and other health professionals.  These roles have included working for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Victorian Branch), the Victorian Drug Usage Advisory Committee (VDUAC), the Victorian Medicines Advisory Committee (VMAC) and the Victorian Therapeutics Advisory Group (VicTAG).  Currently Kay is employed as the Executive Officer of the Pharmacists’ Support Service (PSS).

The role with PSS lead to employment by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) in Victoria to establish and coordinate their Peer Support Service for doctors and medical students which is based on the PSS model.  At AMA Victoria Kay also coordinates the Peer Visitor Program matching elderly isolated doctors with volunteer visitors who are medical students or doctors.  In addition she shares the role of coordinating the mentoring program at AMA Victoria.

Kay has also previously worked as an accredited consultant pharmacist undertaking medication reviews.

In 2020 Kay was awarded the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Symbion Pharmacist of the Year.

Bano Serhan is the current President of the National Australian Pharmacy Students' Association (NAPSA) for the 2023-2024 term. She is a third-year pharmacy student at the University of Newcastle, pursuing a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours).

She was elected to this leadership position in July 2023 and leads a newly elected executive team representing the interests of pharmacy students across Australia's 18 pharmacy schools.

I started studying Pharmacy because in my late teens I saw the deaths of too many friends from overdose, and wanted to help improve the social benefit our industry contributes. Passionate about harm minimisation, queer health and supporting the most vulnerable in our communities, I put my hand up to be NAPSA Treasurer in my second year of studies. Beyond managing the finances and backend governance of our association, being Treasurer has enabled me to meet countless stakeholders from across the country, and work with them on building the future of pharmacy.

Debbie started with Raven’s Recruitment in September 2000 and over this time has become our senior Recruiter and moral compass. Happiest when connecting excellent Pharmacists with a great new Employer, we rely on her to bring things back to black and white, back to basics, and think about what we are doing, why and who for.

Debbie was initially responsible for growing and managing Raven’s overseas UK and Ireland Transfer Scheme, prior to the reciprocal agreement coming to an end in 2006. Debbie is now responsible for permanent recruitment for Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Debbie brings a wealth of knowledge to the team including an extensive network of pharmacists around Australia whom she has worked with throughout her time with Raven’s Recruitment.

Having commenced with Raven's in August 2002, Heidi has experience across all areas of the Raven's Recruitment business beginning as a Consultant and then taking over the management of the business in 2005.  She is now the GM and HR Specialist (Diploma of Human Resources).

With her extensive knowledge of the pharmacy market and all aspects of HR, Heidi is able to offer our clients a genuine and specialised service. This translates into more successful outcomes as she fully understands the knowledge, skills and experience required for your business.

Heidi leads the team by example and is all about building long term and mutually sustainable relationships with pharmacy owners and employee Pharmacists alike.  Heidi encourages this in each of her team.

With her wealth of knowledge in all things to do with the pharmacy employment market Heidi is often sought out by the media for her thoughts on the latest industry recruitment and talent identification trends.

As GM, Heidi has focused on building a high performance team of recruitment specialists who have best outcomes for their clients and candidates at the heart of all they do.  At the end of the day, she recognises this is how you build a brand that people come to know and trust and are willing to recommend.

Having been with AP Group since the beginning, Andrew has more than a decade of experience in pharmacy and is our numbers wizard, people person and general go-getter — having led a project that has seen AP Group become the first 100% carbon neutral pharmacy brokerage in the country (and maybe the world!!). 

Before AP Group, Andrew spent more than a decade in the telecommunications and media industry. That is, 7 years at Telstra in a variety of senior management roles and 3 years in the United Kingdom managing the commercial function for British Sky Broadcasting — a time when it was the fastest growing broadband provider in the UK.  

Andy’s favourite part of his role at AP Group is helping customers with some of the biggest decisions they will ever make — buying a home or investing in a pharmacy — and helping to show them what's truly possible. 

Working within a national team leading the development and execution of the broader health sector strategy for Business Banking, Ben’s role focuses on the Pharmacy industry strategy, insights and appetite. The CommBank Health team specialise across the full spectrum of the health sector, from General Practice to Pharmacy, Aged Care and Seniors Living and support front-line banking and risk teams in deepening their understanding of these highly specialised businesses. Based in Adelaide, SA, Ben specialises in transaction analysis and structuring, credit risk management, data analytics/research and strategy.

I take pride in cultivating financial success for Healthcare Professionals as a Premier Banking Manager. My role revolves around nurturing a team of Premier Relationship Managers dedicated to providing exceptional service tailored to each client's needs. I'm currently based in Sydney and have worked within Commonwealth bank for 14 years over various roles within the group.

Andrew Crawley is the General Manager of Pharmacy at Symbion Pty Ltd. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters of Commerce from the Queensland University of Technology, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He has been working in the pharmacy industry for over 10 years, initially as a Business Development Manager in the Northern Region, and then as the General Manager of Pharmacy. He has a wealth of experience in business strategy, operational finance, and relationship building.