Company

Company - Directors

The Board of Directors of Uscom is made up of key operational executives and enjoys input from non-executive directors Mr Roman Zwolenski and Mr Bruce Rathie.

Mr Rob Phillips serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Each member of the Board is issued a detailed summary of the company's operations in a monthly Chief Executive's report and meets on a regular basis to review operations and to make key strategic decisions.

Roman Zwolenski	Bruce Rathie	Rob Phillips

ROMAN ZWOLENSKI

Mr Zwolenski is a BSc graduate (majoring in Biosciences) from the University of New South Wales and has over 35 years commercial experience in the international Biomedical/Biotech sector.

His career includes eleven years with healthcare corporation, Hoffman La-Roche working as a senior manager in Australia, the UK and in Switzerland. His position at Roche headquarters was as the head of a 50 person global marketing department in the Diagnostics Division. After returning to Australia in the early 1990's he was for 6 years the CEO of AGEN Limited, an Australian public company that developed proprietary medical and veterinary diagnostic products which acheived substantial international sales. More recently he was the CEO of the public listed diagnostic instrument development company, Ambri Limited.

Mr Zwolenski is a fellow of the Institute of Company Directors and serves on the boards of a number of Australian biotech companies.

BRUCE RATHIE

Mr Rathie holds degrees in law, commerce and business and has considerable experience as a lawyer having practiced as a solicitor and partner in a major Brisbane based legal firm and then as Senior in-house Counsel to Bell Resources Limited from 1980 to 1985 in aggregate.

He studied for his MBA in Geneva and then went into investment banking in 1986 which subsequently took him to New York for over 2 years returning to Sydney in 1990.

He spent the 90's in investment banking in Sydney, the last 5 years of which as a Director of Investment Banking at Salomon Brothers/ Salomon Smith Barney where he was responsible for the firm's activities/ roles in the industrial sector and the Federal Government's privatisation of Qantas, Commonwealth Bank (CBA3) and Telstra (T1).

Mr Rathie has been in business since 2000 and currently is, in addition to his part time role as National Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Management, Chairman of BioLayer Corporation Limited, a non-executive director of PolyNovo Biomaterials Pty. Ltd., DataTraceDNA Pty Ltd & Carbon Energy Pty Ltd being joint ventures between CSIRO and ASX listed companies and Chairman of UnitingCare Ageing NSW & ACT, one of the largest aged care service providers in NSW.

ROB PHILLIPS

MPhil (Med), FASE, DMU (Cardiology), AMS
Rob Phillips is the inventor of USCOM.

Rob is a pioneer of cardiac ultrasound and echocardiographic education.

He was one of the earliest adopters of digital ultrasound and founded the Australian Institute of Ultrasound's (AIU) Cardiac Course where he remains Head of Faculty.

Rob has a long time involvement with the Australian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM), and remains a member of the Board of Examiners for the Cardiac DMU.

Rob's research on ultrasonic measurement of cardiovascular function resulted in the award of Master of Philosophy from the Department of Medicine at the University of Queensland, and Rob remains an active contributor of original research at both national and international meetings.
Rob is the author or co-author of approximately 16 patents and patent applications, chairs the Uscom Medical Advisory Board, and was a finalist in the World Technology Awards in 2004.
Master of Philosophy, Dept of Medicine, University of Queensland
Fellow of the Institute of Radiography
Diploma of Medical Ultrasound (Cardiology)
Head of Cardiac Faculty at the AIU
Board or Examiners ASUM Cardiac DMU
Faculty of the International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound
Finalist World Technology Awards 2004
Author of 16 patents on Cardiac Ultrasound and Physiologic Measurements