Dr Abby Bloom

Dr Abby Bloom is a highly experienced company director, chair and risk and audit specialist. She has founded several innovative companies in medtech, health and longevity and has been advising companies, universities and startups on innovation since 1999. She currently chairs the Australian Composites Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (ACM CRC). ACM CRC is an industry-led innovation research program that supports universities to work with industry partners to apply novel composite materials, automated manufacture and digital enablement including sensing to solve complex problems ranging from rocket nose cones to hydrogen transport, hypersonic flight, marine repair and high-end carbon wheels.

Formerly a director of Sydney Water Corporation, Western Sydney Local Health District and The Childrens Hospitals, as well as the State Insurance Regulatory Authority, she has been an accredited independent member and chair of numerous audit and risk committees of NSW Government portfolios. She is currently an Advisory Board member of the NSW branch of the Australian Computer Society and the digital health company Amelio Health.

Dr Bloom began her career as a Senior Policy Adviser in charge of global health, water and sanitation in the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and has worked as an adviser to 20 governments globally through organisations including UNICEF, The World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and governments including Germany, Australia and the USA. After working as an executive in the New South Wales hospital system, she advised Australian federal and state governments on strategy and policy before commencing a full-time career as a company director combined with her innovation activities. Social impact roles include leading a not-for-profit community sport club, and independent director roles on the boards of NSW Gymnastics and Ballet Without Borders.

Dr Bloom completed her undergraduate and Masters in Public Health degrees at Yale University, and was awarded a Masters degree from Northwestern University and a PhD in Medicine (Public Health) from the University of Sydney. A graduate and Fellow of the AICD, she was a member of the AICD’s Chair’s Mentoring Program.

She is passionate about the application of sensor-enabled technology for asset management, health, ageing and wellbeing and commercialising Australian technology globally.

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