Pharmaxis Ltd. announced the appointment of healthcare investment professional Hashan De Silva to the Board as a nonexecutive director. Mr. De Silva is an experienced life sciences investment professional. He worked as associate healthcare analyst at Macquarie Group and lead healthcare analyst at CLSA Australia before joining Karst Peak Capital in February 2021 as head of healthcare research.

Prior to moving into life science investment Mr. De Silva worked at Eli Lilly in various roles focused on the commercialisation of new and existing pharmaceuticals. Mr. De Silva was educated at the University of New South Wales (Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and Master's Degree in Finance) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Until December 2022 Mr. De Silva was Head of Healthcare Research at Karst Peak Capital Limited, a Hong Kong and Australian based specialist healthcare fund and is a nonexecutive director of Melbourne and Philadelphia based CurveBeam AI.

Mr. De Silva is based in Sydney Australia and commences his role as nonexecutive director on 16 January 2023.