Chief Financial Officer

Adrian is an experienced finance executive and business leader with extensive knowledge on strategic, economic and financial advice across a diverse range of industries and sectors.  He has strong and broad strategic planning and commercial and financial management experience in manufacturing, asset management and infrastructure, banking, utilities, and healthcare. He has excellent relationship management with key stakeholders and business partners and has led transformational programs in strategic and operational areas. 

Adrian began his career in treasury and investment banking with stints in KPMG and Ernst & Young and then held senior finance roles with Halifax Bank of Scotland, Brookfield Infrastructure (Rail Division), and St John of God Healthcare.

Adrian holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Master in Business Management, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ) and has completed the AICD Company Directors Program and the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.

Prof Beaman graduated from the University of Western Australia and trained in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Stanford University under Professor Remington and then returned to the University of Western Australia where he established the first Infectious Diseases Department in Western Australia at Fremantle Hospital.

He joined Western Diagnostic Pathology in 2002, where he became Medical Director and Deputy CEO in 2006 bringing a strong focus on customer service, new laboratory initiatives and novel diagnostic technologies. He returned to Pathwest as a Clinical Microbiologist in 2019 on the paediatric service and was appointed Chief Pathologist of the state in 2020.

Analiese Sidhu | Acting Executive Director, Corporate Services 

Analiese has held pivotal roles in the health system for almost ten years; from establishing the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer to leading the governance project of the health system reform including the development of the Health Services Act 2016 WA and the establishment of health service providers as statutory authorities.

Analiese holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia and a Diploma in Journalism from Murdoch University. Her career began at the Department of Finance as a Graduate and she was involved in the Works Reform Program at Building Management and Works and subsequently the Community Services Procurement Reform Program at Government Procurement. She is passionate about driving organisational change and reform initiatives, and is focused on improving workforce culture to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation. Analiese holds a keen interest in public policy and governance and the impact it has on government, particularly the health system in Western Australia.

David has over 20 years’ experience in senior roles within PathWest including General Manager, Director and Executive Director. Leadership roles included the creation of the new laboratories at FSH and the amalgamation of RPH and Fremantle laboratories to create the SE Division of PathWest in 2014 and the creation of PathWest as a separate Health Service Provider as Executive Director of Transformation in 2018.

David has developed strong collaborative working relationships with senior clinicians and executives of the other Health Service Providers through the development of Pathology Reference Groups and joint initiatives. David was also in the leadership team that successfully created PathWest from the amalgamation of pathology laboratories of Royal Perth, Fremantle, Princess Margaret and King Edward hospitals and PathCentre in 2005.

David has worked as a Medical Scientist in both public and private laboratories in most disciplines which, combined with senior management and executive roles, has developed a deep understanding of PathWest’s business operations and business performance. David is passionate about improving PathWest’s operations through the introduction of new technologies and infrastructure and optimising service delivery.

David has a Bachelor of Applied Science and Graduate Diploma in Business and has completed the AICD Company Director’s course and several leadership courses at the AIM UWA Business School.

Nicola has held a range of research and advisory positions within the offices of State and Federal Members of Parliament, including as Chief of Staff for a State Government Minister as well as working in industrial relations and resource development within state government agencies.  She also spent a number of years within the not for profit sector working on proposed reforms to residential tenancy legislation.

Nicola holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia.  After graduating from UWA with her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts and Literature she moved to London to ‘work’ without pay for a well-established art auction house.  As much as she loved the world of art she pursued her interest in law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in England before working for three years in Brussels in different positions including running the small office of the European Editor of The Guardian newspaper.  On returning to Perth she began working as a research officer for the then Federal Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer before working for the Federal Attorney General, as an Associate to a Commissioner at the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission and as a Ministerial Chief of Staff.

PathWest has provided Nicola with a new way of seeing the enormous contribution science makes to our everyday lives and is appreciative of working in an organisation in which she can learn so much each day.