Dr Tim Boyle joined ARCS Australia as CEO in November 2023, previously serving in senior leadership and executive roles at ANSTO. A recognized leader in research translation and IP commercialisation, he has over two decades of experience in technology licensing and developing science based ventures. Previously Tim also served as Executive Chair of ATTP, and is a life member and former non-executive director of Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia. Tim also holds appointments as an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, and Global Expert Faculty at Singularity University.

Pauline is a healthcare executive with more than 25 years’ experience within the life sciences sector. Pauline is a trusted and proven facilitator and has chaired numerous internal and external meetings with diverse stakeholders. She is active on social media and can highlight and encourage interest in key topic areas, such as consumer involvement in the therapeutics sector. Pauline's insights have been gained from working in leadership roles both in industry (eg, Merck, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Eli Lilly, MSD) and as a consultant (eg, Envision Pharma Group, Blackdot, Swordfish). Her experience spans across several different corporate functions and she has worked extensively across the Asia Pacific region. In each of her roles, her passion for excellence and her authentic leadership style have resulted in a positive team-based culture and tangible business transformations. Pauline has a Biological Sciences (Hons} degree from Birmingham University and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Ann Single is the Coordinator for the Patient Voice Initiative, a multi-stakeholder patient-led not for profit working to ensure patients are seen, heard and valued in healthcare decision-making, especially in health technology assessment (HTA). She’s worked in patient involvement in HTA for more than 20 years, first directing it within Scotland’s HTA agency and then sharing and developing good practice in HTAi’s Patient and Citizen Involvement Interest Group. After Chairing this group of 300 multi-stakeholder members in 43 countries for four years, in 2023 she became its Outgoing Chair and HTAi’s first Vice President from the patient community sector. Ann co-edited the book Patient Involvement in Health Technology Assessment (2017) and is a faculty member member of the International Patient Advocacy Management Masters Course at Rome’s Catholic University (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore). Her must recent peer-reviewed paper considers cases of patients involved at the organisational level of HTA bodies. She currently serves as a consumer representative on the Australian Government’s HTA Policy and Methods Review Reference Committee.

Professor Karen Woolley is honoured to be a Life Member of ARCS and served ARCS as a Director and Chair of the Board. As a bereaved parent, clinical trial participant, and caregiver to immediate family members with acute and chronic conditions, Karen’s lived experience has motivated her to work with patients - as partners - in her medical communications career. With patient leaders in the Asia Pacific, European, and North American regions and her medical communication colleagues, she has conducted, presented, and published award-winning research on the ethical and effective involvement of patients in publications. This research has led to practical outcomes with the co-creation of free, evidence-based, online resources for plain language summaries of publications (www.envisionthepatient.com/plstoolkit) and for patient authorship www.patientauthorship.com/). Karen is a Professor at two universities, she has served on the Boards of government hospital and healthcare services (serving 400,000 patients) and not-for-profit research and medical communication associations, she has authored the Good Publication Practice 3 guidelines, prepared Position Statements on the ethical use of professional medical writers for European, American, and international not-for-profit associations, and served on the Editorial Board for an international research integrity journal. To renew her energy, she surfs, runs, cycles, and stairclimbs with (mostly) willing family and friends.