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Philippa Lewis
Philippa Lewis is strategic futurist and start up entrepreneur. She has a successful commercialisation track record as a founder, director and CEO in the digital, MedTech, Biotech, retail, franchising, health and aged care sectors.
Philippa has founded more than ten companies, led local and North American IPOs, reverse mergers, complex M&A transactions, and has formed multilateral joint ventures within North America, Europe and China.
Philippa has extensive expertise in relation to capital management. She has raised over $100m for her own companies and has assisted many young founders to develop and raise capital. She has successfully raised capital globally; from seed, angel, through to pre/post IPO capital.
Philippa is now a professional Company Director and corporate advisor. She currently serves on several boards as Non-Executive Chair of Imunexus Therapeutics Ltd; a public unlisted company in the oncology therapeutics sector; Aquitas Pty Ltd, a privately owned residential aged care M&A consolidation and Halo Technologies, a fintech public company listed on the ASX in early 2022.
Ms Lewis has served as Chair of EZZ Life Science (ASX: EZZ), a company that develops and manufactures healthcare products; An ASX and TSV listed MedTech company Simavita Ltd (ASX: SVA) between 2008 and 2016. She also chaired the board of Life spot Health Ltd (ASX: LSH) and was chair and founder of Karista from 2016 - 2018, a private company servicing the aged, disability and community care sectors through a bespoke digital consumer choice platform.
She has served as a non-executive director of the Medical Technology Association of Australia and holds a number of advisory and mentoring roles with SME boards and CEOs.
Philippa has been engaged in government projects, funding and grants.
She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Institute of Arbitration and Mediation and has completed Public Company Directors and Chair course as well as the Public Company Directors certificate from Simon Fraser University. She has been nominated as Zurich Business Leader of the Year and Telstra Business Woman of the Year.