Ray Messom

• Served as CEO of WentWest, Western Sydney’s Primary Health Network, one of 31 PHNs across Australia that are experts on the primary health care needs in their region and central drivers for reform, integration and equitable access.
• Led a team that supported more than 6,000 medical staff, allied health, nurses and support staff across more than 700 private and not-for-profit organisations
• Led the New South Wales Ministry of Health’s System Information & Analytics Branch in the System Purchasing and Performance Division
• Led data, analytics and digital improvements across 228 hospitals (delivering annually more than 1.9 million hospital admissions, 2.8 million emergency department presentations, 15 million community or outpatient occasions of service and 220,000 elective surgeries)
• At PwC, worked across every Canadian province and every Australian state and territory, leading significant reform projects in primary care, aged care, disability care and social services, driving integrated care, digital and funding-model innovations.

Ray is passionate about health system reform and continuous quality improvement. He is on the board of the Healthicare, a not-for-profit organisation in Western Sydney he helped to create while the CEO of WentWest. Healthicare exemplifies what the future of primary care could look like, achieving valuable outcomes that matter to people by applying an innovative team-based approach. It also aims to demonstrate a new approach to funding, digital, integrating health and social care around the family.

In 2022, Ray was a top-five finalist for Australian NFP CEO of the Year.

Ray loves travelling and exploring new cultures with his family. He is a primary school ice hockey and soccer coach. His wife and children are dual citizens of Canada and Australia.