Gordon Ballantyne Becomes Australian Unity Deputy Chair

Gordon Ballantyne Appointed Deputy Chair of Australian Unity Gordon Ballantyne has been appointed Deputy Chair of Australian Unity Limited following the retirement of Melinda Cilento, who stepped down from the board at the conclusion of the organisation's Annual General Meeting. Ballantyne, who joined Australian Unity as a Non-Executive Director in August 2025, brings more than 25 years of international executive leadership experience across the healthcare, telecommunications and technology industries to his expanded board responsibilities. Ballantyne has built an extensive career leading large, complex businesses and driving organisational transformation across international markets. Before joining Australian Unity, he served as Managing Director and CEO of Healthscope from May 2017 to June 2019, overseeing one of Australia's leading listed healthcare organisations, with 18,000 employees and 43 hospitals across Australia, alongside pathology operations in New Zealand and Asia. During his tenure, he led significant cultural and operational transformation, strengthened patient-centred care and delivered major capital investment initiatives to support sustainable business growth. Prior to Healthscope, Ballantyne held several senior leadership positions at Telstra between 2010 and 2015, including Group Executive and Group Managing Director. He was responsible for the company's domestic retail business, overseeing its Consumer, Business and Media divisions, with a focus on customer experience, business growth and the development of new digital ventures, including Telstra Health. Earlier, he served as Vice President of Hewlett-Packard UK and Ireland, Director at T-Mobile UK under Deutsche Telekom, and Founder and Managing Director of dell.com across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where he established and developed a major digital business across 16 markets. Earlier in his career, Ballantyne worked at ExxonMobil as European Treasurer, managing treasury operations across Central and Eastern Europe. His international experience spans business strategy, digital innovation, financial management, healthcare operations and large-scale organisational transformation. With this breadth of executive expertise and his existing board experience at Australian Unity, his appointment as Deputy Chair adds substantial commercial and strategic leadership experience to the organisation's governance as it continues to advance its health, wealth and care businesses.