Finian MacCana is an optometrist and a founding shareholder of Optomeyes, a group of 12 optometry practices in Tasmania. His principal place of practice is Sandy Bay and he currently lectures part time in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Tasmania Medical School. He also is the visiting optometrist at the University of Tasmania and regularly visits the part time rural practices at Oatlands, St. Helens and Swansea.

Mr MacCana is a Fellow of the British College of Optometrists and the Victorian College of Optometry. He is a former director of Advanced Ocular Systems Limited, Diabetes Australia (Tasmanian Division) and Laubman and Pank Holdings Ltd and is a consultant to national and global companies involved in eye care. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Sam Andersen is a lawyer and accountant with a history in banking and corporate finance. She held senior executive finance and general management operational roles in large financial institutions prior to commencing a corporate advisory business.

She has advised several small cap companies in relation to acquisitions and acquisitions integration, investor relations and capital raising, and has held the roles of Chief Operations Officer and Chief Financial Officer for small cap companies in Victoria and Western Australia.

Tony Larkin is an experienced professional company director, whose executive career encompassed chief financial officer roles in two of Australia’s top 50 corporations. His executive roles covered a broad range of industries including steel, minerals, beverages, chemicals, petrochemicals and plastics and fertilisers.

He is currently a Director and Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee at Zinifex Limited, Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Pivot Incitec Limited, Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Corporate Express Australia Limited and Chairman of Ausmelt Limited.

Tony Hanks is a Doctor of Optometry, and founded a group of practices in Port Macquarie and Queensland, 10 of which are part of the initial transaction. His career in optometry has spanned corporate and private practice roles, research and teaching roles. Tony Hanks is the founder and Chairman of Eyecare Plus Limited and the founding member of the Australian Optometric Panel. He is a well respected leader in the optometry industry in Australia and still practices optometry part time in his Port Macquarie practice.

In 2006, the Optometrists Association of Australia awarded him the Josef Lederer Award for Excellence in Optometry. Dr Hanks continues to work within the business and, in particular, in guiding the Port Macquarie and Queensland practices.

Ray Fortescue is an optometrist practicing full time in Ramsgate Beach Sydney. He commenced work as an employed optometrist in 1979 and opened his practice at Ramsgate Beach in 1980. The practice is one of the 16 practices included the initial transaction.

He is a member of the Australian Optometric Panel and the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a non-executive director of Eyecare Plus Limited.

Ray continues to work within the business at the Ramsgate Beach practice.