New private equity owners of Healthscope

The new private equity owners of Healthscope have overhauled its senior executive ranks.

As revealed by The Australian online yesterday, private equity giants the Carlyle Group and TPG are installing both a new chief executive and chief financial officer, as they stamp their authority on Australia's second-largest private hospital operator.

Long-time Healthscope chief executive Bruce Dixon will be replaced by former Mayne Hospitals and Symbion boss Rob Cooke, who will also bring in his close colleague and numbers man, John Hickey.

Mr Cooke will take up the positions of executive chairman and chief executive and Mr Hickey will take the CFO role.

Healthscope group chief operating officer Vita Pepe and chief financial officer Gary Kent will also depart the company, which was acquired earlier this year for $2.7 billion by Carlyle and TPG.

 

Sourse: The Australian