Somnomed

Dr. Peter Neustadt - Non Executive Chairman

 
Dr. Neustadt is a management consultant and entrepreneur with more than thirty years experience in building and improving public companies within the hospitality, media, property and finance sectors. He has previously worked for the global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company and was an executive board member of Kerry Packer's Consolidated Press Holdings (CPH).
 

Dr. Neustadt served on a number of public and private company boards including Cypress Lakes Group Limited, The Golden Door, CEL Limited, Network TEN, Advance Bank Limited, Trafalgar, Manboom Limited.

Ralf Barschow - Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Barschow has more than twenty years experience in leading international dental materials and technology companies, performing high executive functions, managing sales and marketing budgets up to A$ 250 million p.a. as well as forging a network of business contacts in the dental industry worldwide.

Prior to accepting his role as Chief Executive Officer, Ralf came from the Australian subsidiary of Siemens AG, one of the world´s leading operations. Before joining Siemens he was heading the central European business as Managing Director of the US company Align Technology Inc., the NASDAQ listed inventor and maker of the Invisalign orthodontic product. He came to Align from his previous position as Global Sales Director of Ivoclar Vivadent AG, one of the leading international dental enterprises and prior to that as Export Manager and various positions he held for over ten years in the German Degussa AG, one of the top 3 dental companies in the world. 

Mr. Barschow, a German citizen, studied international marketing and economics in Germany and England, lived in Germany, Liechtenstein, Singapore and Hong Kong and moved to Australia in 2006.     

Neil Verdal-Austin - Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Verdal-Austin has more than fifteen years experience as CFO for various medical distribution companies, including systems development and implementation, business acquisitions, strategic planning, reporting and operations. Prior to accepting his role, Neil came from Lifehealthcare, the largest Australian Healthcare distributor of medical products and devices. 

Before Lifehealthcare, he was the CFO for 13 years for Orthomedics, a large medical distributor in South Africa. During that appointment, he was a key figure in the leadership team and instrumental in all commercial aspects of that business, it’s processes, financial results and operational excellence.   

Neil is a South African and Irish citizen, completed his studies at the University of  Cape Town , South Africa and is a Chartered Accountant ( Australia ) .