Rohan Mead exits Australian Unity after 21 years of expansion and reinvention

Australian Unity Group Managing Director and CEO Rohan Mead has officially retired, marking the end a 21-year tenure that reshaped the mutual into one of Australia’s largest health, wealth and care groups – and the nation’s biggest home care provider.

Under Rohan’s leadership, Australian Unity grew its revenue from about $400 million to $2.3 billion, expanded its workforce from roughly 1,300 to 10,000, and built a national footprint serving more than 370,000 members and 700,000 customers.

The centrepiece of that growth was scale in home care. Australian Unity undertook more than a dozen acquisitions, including NSW Government’s Home Care business in 2016 and the 2024 acquisition of myHomecareGroup – a deal that cemented Australian Unity’s position at the top of the home care market.

Rohan also backed significant change inside the organisation, including the strategic shift to a dedicated Home Health division – lead by Prue Bowden – as the group leaned harder into community-based care, clinical services and logistics.

In residential aged care, Rohan ultimately opted to stay the course. After reviewing its options in 2023, Australian Unity kept residential aged care as part of its broader “continuum of care” strategy linking home care, retirement living and residential services.

On the property and precinct side, his legacy includes Rathdowne Place in Carlton, widely regarded as Australia’s first inner-city, vertical retirement village and aged care model, and the conversion of Australian Unity’s former headquarters into The Alba, now a residential aged care facility.

Former Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has now succeeded Rohan.