Our Leadership Team
Our Leadership Team
Unlike most players in Australia’s emerging medical cannabis industry, all of Sativite’s founders have formal qualifications in agriculture and in-depth, hands-on experience in growing medical cannabis, industrial hemp as well as other crops.
Complemented by a variety of business experience in building and running companies, international trading, import/export and banking and finance, our leadership team brings the best of both worlds to the company’s day-to-day operations and strategic growth.
Ross Munro
Chairman
Ross is the owner of BMC Partnership and one of the cotton industry’s best design engineers. He brings vast experience from his front-line involvement in Australia’s cotton revolution since the 1980s. Having led multifaceted business including Cotton Harvesting, Manufacturing, Hemp Growing, Composting, Logistics and Transport, Ross is applying his wealth of design and innovation experience into developing large scale manufacture and harvesting techniques for the medicinal cannabis industry.
Michael Cleary
Chief Executive Officer/Director
Michael is involved in successful, sustainable farming enterprises in hemp and grain production with an interest in emerging agricultural markets. Previously, Mike worked for 15 years in the banking/finance industry in senior executive roles in agribusiness and as a director of Regional Business Finance. Mike has been a participant in the medicinal cannabis trials held in Australia since 2018 and is an advocate for improved patient access.
Brian White
Chief Technology Officer/Director
Brian is a Plant Biochemist with a unique background in horticulture and international business. Brian previously owned and operated a high-production native plant nursery and has been a trader in Asia for 15 years with thousands of trades in technology and services. Brian holds a Cannabis Researcher license and was a co-founder of Cannatrek Limited. In that role, Brian secured medicinal cannabis production, processing, and research licenses for Cannatrek, and recently project-managed and completed construction of Cannatrek’s greenhouse facility near Brisbane.
Matthew Barnes
Director
Matthew is a qualified Agronomist and licensed cannabis grower with decades of practical experience in an agricultural production environment. Matt is a director of CQ Composting Pty Ltd, a producer of composted fertilizers and innovative crop enhancement products. Matthew is also a founder of Soil Planners, a group of sustainable agriculture specialists with over 300,000 hectares currently under management in sustainable agriculture.
Daniel Timcke (BSc, BPharmSci, MPharm)
Pharmacist, Industrial Chemist, GMP Auditor
Daniel brings over 20 years of experience in process and operations within multinational, ISO 9001-accredited manufacturing companies, complemented by 13 years as an AHPRA-registered pharmacist. In 2013, he transitioned from community pharmacy to establish PolyRxn, a research and consulting firm advising domestic therapeutic and international biotechnology companies on regulatory affairs.
The 2016 legislative changes created a strategic opportunity to focus on medicinal cannabis, aligning with the principles of Quality Use of Medicines (QUM), with an emphasis on safety, efficacy, pharmacology, and final dosage form production. Daniel has practised as a cannabis dispensing Pharmacist under the Queensland Health regulatory framework, an Industrial Chemist, and an experienced GMP and ISO Quality Systems internal auditor—bringing deep expertise across regulatory compliance, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical quality assurance.
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