At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Sydney based CEO’ operating in the Medical space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sarah Clifford
Executive Assistant – Founder & CEO of GenesisCare
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About GenesisCare: Provides high quality specialist care to patients with cancer and cardiovascular disease, the two largest disease burdens globally.
Aengus Tran
CEO and Co-Founder of Harrison.ai
Aengus Tran is the Co-Founder and CEO at Harrison.ai.
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About Harrison.ai: Harrison.ai is a clinician-led healthcare AI company using deep learning to improve the odds of IVF success for thousands of patients.

Gary Lakin
Chief Executive Officer of Charm Health
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About Charm Health: Charmhealth is a developer and supplier of specialist oncology electronic medical record and clinical information systems.
Manuri Gunawardena
Founder/CEO of HealthMatch
Manuri Gunawardena is the founder and CEO of HealthMatch.
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About HealthMatch: HealthMatch connects patients with revolutionary drugs and cures.

Raghav Murali- Murali-Ganesh
Founder & CEO of CancerAid
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About CancerAid: CancerAid empowers people and organisations affected by cancer to thrive through expertise, empathy and technology
Dig Howitt
CEO and President of Cochlear
Dig joined Cochlear in 2000 as an engineering manager in product development. He took responsibility for manufacturing in 2001 and the following year was appointed Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Logistics. In 2014 he was appointed President, Asia Pacific and appointed to Chief Operating Officer in July 2016. Dig was appointed President in July 2017 and CEO & President on 3 January 2018.
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About Cochlear: Cochlear is a global expert in implantable hearing solutions.

David Collins
CEO of Clifford Hallam Healthcare
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About Clifford Hallam Healthcare: CH2 distributes medical consumables, pharmaceuticals, veterinary products, and equipment in Australia.
Justin Bowra
CEO of My Emergency Dr
Justin Bowra is an experienced Emergency Medicine Specialist and the CEO and founder of ConnectedMed the parent company of My Emergency Dr. He is a published author (Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy, Bowra and McLaughlin 2nd ed) and his passions include telehealth, tele-education, and ultrasound.
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About My Emergency Dr: My Emergency Dr is an app that allows to have a video consultation with a specialist emergency doctor.

Matt Muscio
Chief Executive Officer of LifeHealthcare
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About LifeHealthcare: LifeHealthcare is an independent medical device distributor of products across clinically specialized divisions.
Silvia Pfeiffer
CEO and Co-Founder of Coviu
Silvia Pfeiffer is WebRTC Applications Team Lead at National ICT Australia, where she manages the invention, implementation, user testing, and deployment of new WebRTC applications. This team publishes the open source http://rtc.io/ node modules and is preparing a WebRTC spin-in called Coviu. Silvia has been heavily involved in the W3C Web standards work during her time at Google and at Mozilla. She is also the author of “The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Video” and “Beginning HTML5 Media”.
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About Coviu: Coviu is a telehealth startup that helps doctors and health practitioners deliver easy video calling experiences to their patients.

Ilana Feain
Founder & CEO of Nano-X
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About Nano-X: Nano-X is an innovative cancer treatment system being designed and developed in Australia.
Steven Rubic
CEO of I-MED Network Radiology
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About I-MED Network Radiology: The I-MED Network is Australia’s largest private medical imaging network, with clinics in all major metropolitan areas and significant

Michele Grow
Chief Executive Officer of Davidson Trahaire Corpsych
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About Davidson Trahaire Corpsych: Davidson Trahaire Corpsychis provides Employee Assistance Programs (EAP’s) and related corporate psychology and physical health services.

Naz Musa
CEO of Medical Channel
Nazar Musa is the CEO at Medical Channel.
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About Medical Channel: Medical Channel is an Australian Point of Care digital communication media provider.

Dr Michael Zacharia
CEO of Dr Zacharia
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About Dr Zacharia: A new natural younger you is my goal in helping anyone to look and feel fantastic in their everyday life.
Philippa Lewis
CEO of Simavita
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About Simavita: Simavita is an early stage medical device company that has developed an innovative world first solution for the management of urinary