People and leadership

Delivering the Calvary Mission

Meet our leaders

National Executive Leadership Team

Calvary’s National Leadership Team is led by National Chief Executive Officer, Damien Bruce.

The National Leadership Team represents strategy and service development across Calvary healthcare services as well as support services including mission, finance, human resources, clinical services and legal, governance and risk.

Each Executive is responsible for delivering on Calvary’s Strategic Intent.

Damien Bruce

Chief Executive Officer

David Allison

Chief Financial Officer

Sharon Kendall

Chief Operations Officer - Hospitals

Luke Sams

Chief Operations Officer – Aged and Home Care

Mark Green

Chief Mission and Public Affairs Officer

Kris Salisbury

Chief Nurse and Clinical Governance Officer

John Sutherland

Chief Digital Information Officer

Chris Hourigan

Chief Strategy Officer

Katrina Cunningham

Chief Legal Officer

Loch Van Den Berg

Chief People Officer

Board of Directors

“We believe that Australian society is best served by a single health care system where the public and private sectors play complementary roles in delivering high quality, responsive and compassionate care. ”

Hon. John Watkins AM, former Chair National Board.


Chaired by Greg Cooper, The Little Company of Mary Health Care Board of Directors is accountable to Calvary Ministries.

Greg Cooper - Chair

FIA, BEc

Agnes Sheehan

BA Business Studies (Hons)

Lucille Scomazzon

LLB (Hons 1) BA GAICD

Annette Carruthers

MBBS(Hons) FRACGP FAICD GradDipAppFin

Professor Chris Baggoley

AO, BVSC (Hons), BMBS, B Soc Admin, FACEM, FRACMA, D Univ (FUSA), FAAHMS

Yvonne Le Bas

BBus Studies, MA, Fellow CA Aus/NZ, Fellow Inst. CA England/Wales, FAICD

David Issa

Jackie Fairley

BSc, BVSc (Hons), MBA, GAICD, FTSE

Kathy Alexander

BA (Hons) Psychology, GradDip Public Health, PhD