Bruce Soden is a chartered accountant and group finance director of Ramsay Health Care, a role he has held since early 1997. He is responsible for all financial operations and corporate governance functions of the business including treasury, banking and finance, legal and company secretariat, investor relations and group accounting and taxation. Over his 25 years with the Group, Mr Soden has led the company’s capital management strategy through many critical milestones including the acquisition of the privatised Department of Veteran Affairs hospitals Hollywood (1994) and Greenslopes (1995), Ramsay’s listing on the ASX in 1997, the company-transforming acquisition of Affinity Health Care in 2005 and all debt and equity raising. Mr Soden is also a director of Ramsay Générale de Santé, a public listed hospital operator in France of which Ramsay Health Care (UK) has a controlling interest. Prior to being appointed group finance director in 1997, Mr Soden was finance director and chief financial officer of Ramsay’s operating entities. He also spent four years based in New Orleans as director and senior vice president of Ramsay Health Care Inc, a listed US healthcare company. Before joining Ramsay in 1987, Mr Soden was a financial consultant for a major global accounting firm for 11 years.
