Mark Buzza Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

I work with clients across the healthcare sector to help them to deliver strategic initiatives, deeply understand the landscape in which they operate and explore opportunities for change, growth, collaboration and/or business optimisation to drive greater impact for patients. I am passionate about multi-stakeholder engagement and collective impact as a.

Melbourne, Australia

Dublin-based HealthXL is a matchmaking community that fosters communication and collaboration between major healthcare organisations, start-ups and experts in the digital health arena to solve diverse large-scale and system-wide healthcare challenges via innovative digital health solutions. My role as Advisor is to explore and foster collaboration.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Member of the VCCC Alliance Executive Team. Lead a team of 15 professionals and worked with hundreds of collaborators to to co-design, initiate, implement, evaluate and ensure good governance of the VCCC Alliance 2020-2024 Strategic Program Plan (SPP). Lead the Research portfolio which delivered seven major programs of work (31 projects) within the.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The VCCC is an Alliance of 10 leading research, academic and clinical organisations working together to transform cancer outcomes and patient care. Responsible for merging the clinical trials and research development portfolios established during the 2017-2020 Strategic Research Plan (SRP) in to the new Research portfolio of the VCCC Alliance 2020-2024.

Melbourne, Australia

The Movember Foundation has raised over $930 million for men’s health initiatives since 2004 and has been listed in the top 100 NGOs in the world by the Global Journal based on Impact, Innovation, Accountability and Efficiency. In the role of Global Director I led the Movember Foundation's Prostate Cancer Biomedical Research investments, including the.

Melbourne, Australia

In this role, I was responsible for leading an international collaborative prostate and testicular cancer R&D Program (the Global Action Plan; GAP). This program is implemented across 15 countries and is underpinned by a portfolio of seven globally collaborative open-innovation style projects consisting of 12+ global R&D consortia and 20+ integrated.

Melbourne, Australia

In this role I oversaw a global cross-functional collaborative research consortium, the Movember Global Action Plan (GAP) Program. This program is designed to realize synergies within the global prostate cancer research effort and expedite outcomes for the benefit of prostate cancer patients. GAP complements Movember's substantial investment in national.

As the Program Manager – Plasma Strategy within the Operations Division at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, I was responsible for creating and implementing a large scale, multi-functional/cross-Business Unit strategic initiative for the Blood Service Executive Leadership Team. This Program focused on strategy development and alignment, and the.

After I completed my MBA and prior to joining the Blood Service, I worked as a Management Consultant at a boutique consulting firm, Executive Compass, on a strategic project for a major global chemical company. In this role I was part of a team developing new market opportunities to ensure sustained long-term operating efficiencies and future revenue.

Between 2004-2008 I worked at the publicly-listed Biotechnology company, Virax Holdings Ltd, where I was Development Manager. In this role I was responsible for drug development/product commercialisation and project management of an entire immunotherapeutic vaccine non-clinical and clinical pipeline globally (South Africa, USA, Europe and Australia)..

After I completed my PhD, I worked at Servier (a large privately held Pharmaceutical company) as a Clinical Research Associate where I was responsible for managing up to 5 Phase III clinical trials at 25 hospital research centers in Australia and NZ across a range of therapeutic areas including cardiovascular, endocrinology and central nervous system.

Prince2 Foundation And Practitioner Certification, Project Management

Mba (Executive)

Phd, Molecular Medicine

Bsc

Bsc (Honours), Human Genetics