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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 over ten companies, led local and North American IPOs, reverse mergers, complex M&A transactions, and has formed multilateral joint ventures with North American, European and Asian entities.
Philippa has extensive expertise in strategic capital management. She has raised over $120m for various enterprises and has assisted many young founders to develop and raise capital. She has successfully raised capital globally; from seed, angel, institutional, HNWs, through to pre/post IPO capital.
Philippa is now a professional Company Director, corporate advisor and executive coach. She currently serves on several boards as Non-Executive Chair of Imunexus Therapeutics Ltd; a public unlisted company in the immunology therapeutics sector; she is a NED on the board of The Global Centre for Modern Aging, an research consulting NGO, Halo Technologies, a fintech public company listed on the ASX in 2021 and is Chair for its subsidiary Halo Tech Group UK.
Ms Lewis has served as Chair of EZZ Life Science (ASX: EZZ), a company that develops and manufactures healthcare products; 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 co-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 several advisory and mentoring roles with SME boards and CEOs. Philippa has been engaged in designing, advising and consulting for government projects and the funding of government and private grants.
She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Resolution Institute. She is also a qualified legal Arbitrator 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 Businesswoman of the Year.