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Jeannine
Biviano
Deputy Secretary,
Government and
Corporate Services
NSW Department of Finance,
Services and Innovation
Jeannine Biviano began her career as a registered
nurse. At just 21 years of age, she was managing
a 25-bed neurological ward in a busy hospital.
She re-trained as a chartered accountant
and worked for KPMG in its Insolvency and
Receivership Division. Ms Biviano returned
to the health sector and successfully combined
her clinical and business skills and experiences
to become in 2002, CEO of Macquarie Area
Health Service. At the time, she was the youngest
person ever appointed by NSW Health to such
a role. Since moving into senior NSW
Government roles in 2008, Ms Biviano has been
responsible for merger and acquisition activity
as a result of four significant change of
government restructures, including the
consolidation of numerous corporate service
systems onto one platform. An early adopter
of cloud technologies, she led the first Australian
public sector implementation of software-asa-service enterprise resource planning system.
In 2013, Ms Biviano was named Telstra NSW
Business Woman of the Year.
“Leadership is about
recognising that you don’t
have all the answers, and you
need to surround yourself with
people that complement your
skills. It’s also about putting
your hand up to take on things
outside your role description
and remit, and taking on
projects outside your normal
day to day.”
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