Malcolm John Mccomas

Biography

  Malcolm John McComas serves as Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Pharmaxis Ltd. has been a member of the Board of Directors since July 2003 and was appointed Chairman of the Board on 1 May 2012. Malcolm McComas is a company director and a former investment banker and commercial lawyer. Mr McComas is the principal of McComas Capital and was previously a consultant and a director of Grant Samuel, the investment banking and funds management group, from 1999 to 2009. Mr McComas previously served for 10 years as Managing Director of Investment Banking at County NatWest and its successor organization Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) and in various executive roles with Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank) in Melbourne, Sydney and London. Mr McComas has worked with many high growth companies across various industry sectors and has experience in equity and debt finance, acquisitions and divestments and privatisations. Mr McComas has led more than 50 initial public offerings and significant secondary offerings for companies, institutions and governments. Mr McComas is a director of Saunders International Limited, Royalco Resources Limited, Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group, Chairman of Fitzroy River Corporation Limited and a former director of BC Iron Limited and Consolidated Minerals Limited. Mr McComas has been chairman of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee since 1 May 2012, is a member of the Audit Committee and was chairman of the Audit Committee until 1 May 2012.

Research Interest

 business and management administration