Our Team
Jane McDonald (MA, CA, GAICD)
Director and Co-Founder of MindFx Limited. Jane is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has a strong commercial and program management background. Over the past 16 years, she has held executive roles and has played a lead role in transforming service delivery in a wide range of entities, including utilities (energy and water), Queensland Health, Queensland Government Procurement and Care services. Jane has strong personal interest in delivering better recovery pathways for young people with mental health and addiction challenges, having recent personal experience in navigating the mental health system with a family member. Jane is currently Executive Director, Corporate Services for integratedliving Australia, a leading provider of quality in-home health and wellbeing services in regional, rural, and remote Australia.
Dr Jeffery Smith (BSc, PhD, MBA)
Director and Co-Founder of MindFx Limited. Jeffery started his career as a biomedical researcher. His research was in the fields of lipid metabolism and its relationship to cholesterol gallstones and cardiovascular diseases. He has diverse experience in biomedical R&D (discovery, preclinical and first in human and investigator-driven clinical studies), consulting, biotechnology start-ups and founder of BioAssayLINK - an online linking service for discovery and preclinical research services. His experience spans both the public and private sectors (universities, mostly biotechnology companies and BioAssayLINK) within Australia, US, and France. He has presented and published more than 30 scientific research articles and business material to national and international audiences. In 2014, Jeffery switched careers to sell real estate at one of the top real estate businesses in Brisbane, Ray White Paddington. Jeffery has strong personal interest in delivering better recovery pathways for young people with mental health and addiction challenges, having personal experience in navigating the mental health system with a family member.