Over twenty years experience as an executive, manager, and engineer within the pharmaceutical, chemical and paper industries. Possessing strong capabilities in program management, organisational design, process and systems development. • IT Integration Lead for CSL's acquisition of the Novartis influenza vaccines business. Time critical leadership to mobilise a planning and integration team. Establish strategy and governance to support delivery of the entire IT landscape for global manufacturing and commercial operations over a two year program. Manage transition to new IT organisation. • Chief Information Officer of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Joined the organisation at a time of significant challenges with major IT projects and lead the recovery of a long running vital systems upgrade. Orchestrated organisational restructuring including founding of Project Management and Validation practices. Strengthened IT governance including establishment of IT Steering Committee and IT Project Office. Delivered the organisation's first IT Strategic Plan. • Chief Information Officer and senior executive of the northern hemisphere division of CSL; Australia's leading bio-pharmaceutical company. Lead IT due diligence and subsequent integration activities for major acquisitions in the USA, Switzerland and Germany. Lead global IT operations comprising 300 staff and budget of USD70M. • Project Manager working with Engineering, Process and Quality Leaders for a pharmaceutical facility project in Poland with design executed out of Austria and Ireland. • Software Systems Engineering Manager overseeing technical and project management of all stages of the software engineering life-cycle from requirements analysis though to commissioning. Specialties: Integration associated with mergers and aquisition. Project managment. Change management and organisational design. IT governance

IT Integration Team Lead @ CSL Limited has acquired the influenza vaccines business of Novartis on July 31, 2015. The transaction excludes all information technology and related support staff. The role entails mobilising a transition team to conclude IT aspects of deal closure planning, strategy development, governance and leading the execution of the program to establish IT services over 2 years for the new company Seqirus. Once the new Seqirus IT organisation is established a transition to that team will be effected during 2016. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) IT Management Consultant (pro-bono) @ -Business Systems Review -Set up IT governance processes including establish IT Steering Committee -Set up IT control processes including Project Portfolio and Change Management From May 2014 to November 2014 (7 months) Melbourne, AustraliaDirector/Independent consultant @ From February 2014 to June 2014 (5 months) Consultant-Automation @ Short term consulting engagement relating to computer interface between Emerson DeltaV and GE Unicorn. From December 2013 to January 2014 (2 months) Director @ Currently on a career break, travelling UK & Europe on a bicycle between late April and October. Will be available for short to medium term assignments including transition management and program management from mid October, 2013. From October 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 1 month) Chief Information Officer @ Major Project Recovery Organisational Design Portfolio Management IT Strategy establishment IT Governance improvements IT Steering Committee establishment From May 2010 to October 2012 (2 years 6 months) Change Management Consultant @ Olex is an Australian manufacturer of electrical cables servicing the Australian and Asia Pacific energy, construction and industrial markets. Olex ran a project to replace their ERP system, BPCS, with SAP. SAP successfully went live in January 2010. I was engaged late in the project during the final stages of testing to lead the change management effort. This entailed a range of activities including: •Managing key internal stakeholder communications and readiness surveys, •Advising senior and executive management on project reporting and governance •Working with the HR team to develop a multi-functional organisation development committee •Preparing post-project review material •Preparing and proto-typing an Issue Management System. From September 2009 to February 2010 (6 months) Snr Vice President, Chief Information Officer @ CSL is engaged in the development and manufacture of vaccines and plasma protein biotherapies. CSL has major facilities in Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the US, CSL has over 10,000 employees working in 27 countries I lead IT due diligence and subsequent integration activities of Aventis Behring LLC to become CSL Behring LLC (a company of CSL Ltd). I subsequently headed up ICT for the northern hemisphere division with approximately 300 ICT staff throughout US, Germany, Switzerland and Japan From May 2004 to December 2008 (4 years 8 months) Director, IT & Engineering @ Lead IT due diligence and subsequent integration activities associated with the acquisition of Plasma Collection Centre and Laboratory assets from Nabi Biopharmaceuticals. Part of the senior executive team, lead IT operations until promoted to CIO for CSL Behring LLC. From July 2001 to April 2004 (2 years 10 months) Manager Automation Systems, Project Manager @ From 1993 to 1999 (6 years)

Graduate AICD, Corporate Governance @ Australian Institute of Company Directors From 2012 to 2012 Graduate Diploma, Computer Systems Engineering @ Swinburne University of Technology From 1990 to 1992 Bachelor Engineering, Electrical and Electronic @ Swinburne University of Technology From 1982 to 1987 Paul Hermecz is skilled in: IT Governance, Change Management, SDLC, Program Management, Project Management, Process Improvement, Business Process Improvement, Business Analysis, IT Strategy, Vendor Management, Requirements Analysis, Business Process, Quality Assurance, Stakeholder Management, Project Portfolio Management