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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 Health Care 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.
Steve Atkins
Chief Executive Officer of Healthe Care Australia
Steve Atkins is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Healthe Care Australia. Steve has over 20 years senior health care management experience having worked for several of Australia’s largest health care groups. He is a former board member of the Australian Private Hospitals Association and remains on the Association’s Council. Steve was instrumental in the establishment of the Healthe Care business in 2005 and has played a leading role in the growth of the group – which currently comprises 17 private hospital sites across Australia). Healthe Care is one of the leading Australian hospital providers operating acute surgical, cardiac, medical, rehabilitation and mental health facilities as well as associated community based care services.
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About Healthe Care Australia: Healthe Care Australia operates a network of private hospitals.
Ashish Mitra
Founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Endoluminal Sciences
Ashish Mitra has completed his post graduate training in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, with specialization in BioDesign (Medical Devices), Product Design and Design for Manufacturability. Passionate about medical device engineering he has developed technical expertise in the field of aortic, cardiac and peripheral vascular stent technologies at the Research and Development Groups of Medtronic Vascular, Santa Rosa, CA and Medtronic Structural Heart Disease, Santa Ana, CA. His experience spans the full spectrum of medical technology development from conception to successful PMA approvals. A creative inventor, he has an expanding IP portfolio having received several recognitions including awards from the J.F. Lincoln Foundation and the Indian National Academy of Engineers. He also has a keen didactic inclination and is currently serving as an Honorary Associate and Lecturer at the Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Sydney, Australia.
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About Endoluminal Sciences: Endoluminal Sciences develops novel platform technologies to enhance the clinical performance of endovascular prostheses.
Peter Scutt
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Mable
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About Mable: Mable is an online platform where people with disability, or those who are ageing, can find and hire local care and support workers.
Romain Bonjean
Co founder and CEO of TYDE
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About Rosemary Health, Startmate, TYDE: Tyde is a platform that transforms the connection between patients and clinicians.
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.
Tal Rapke
CEO of ScalaMed
Dr Tal, is a trained physician with 20+ years of health experience as an innovator, a digital health expert, an entrepreneur, a husband, and a father of 2 energetic boys. Having lived in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, the Middle East, he has seen the immense opportunity that exists to rethink healthcare and make it more intuitive and patient focused. He has been focused on ScalaMed – dedicated to changing the future of healthcare.
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About ScalaMed: ScalaMed is the future of prescriptions – re-imagining prescriptons as the gateway for access and influence
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.
Matthew Galetto
Founder/CEO of MediRecords
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About MediRecords: MediRecords is a clinical and practice management cloud software developed as a health service application.
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.
Fred Cicchini
Chief Executive Officer of Injury Treatment
Fred is a registered psychologist with over a decade of experience in vocational, employment and return to work solutions. Fred is experienced in optimising organisational employee engagement and productivity and has developed and implemented evidence based early intervention, employee assistance programs, return to work and recruitment solutions for many of Australia’s corporate elite.
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About Injury Treatment: Injury Treatment is one of the innovative leaders within the occupational rehabilitation industry.
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.
Georgie Drury
CEO & Founder of Springday
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About Springday: Springday is a technology platform designed to help companies reduce their health risk profile and improve engagement and well-being.
Jessie Williams
CEO of The GroundSwell Project
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About Macquarie Group, The GroundSwell Project, The GroundSwell Project: The GroundSwell Project is a health and fitness firm that offers several health and wellness programs.
Pushpinder Bagga
Founder & CEO of Dishme
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About Dishme, Freight Exchange Pty Ltd: Dishme is an online marketplace to get an on demand personal cook for fresh, healthy and homemade food.
Dave Hundt
CEO of Envie Fitness
Dave Hundt is the CEO of Envie Fitness. He has twnety years of people management experience including consulting to SME’s and multinational operations. Managed teams from 5 to 200 staff and created a positive culture and productive work environment in multiple organisations. Delivered effective change management strategies, achieved best practice staff retention results and developed both staff and franchisees to reach benchmark performance levels. He earned his degree at Macquarie University.
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About Envie Fitness: EnVie Fitness is the innovative approach to inspirational Health and Fitness for the woman of today.
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.
Abhi Bhatia
Founder & CEO of Medius Health
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About Medius Health: Medius’ comprehensive medical knowledge graph helps providers & payors gain thorough understanding of customer’s health.
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
Karn Ghosh
Founder & CEO of Kinela
Karn Ghosh is the founder and CEO of Hit 100. He is also the founder and CEO of SportsMed Studio. Karn holds a degree in applied science at University of Sydney.
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About Kinela: Kinela is a healthcare company that empowers people living with disability and elderly to take control of their health and wellbeing.
Juilo Ribeiro
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Inventia Life
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About Inventia Life: Revolutionising 3D bioprinting
Deborah Fairfull
Founder & CEO of Blisspot
Deborah Fairfull brings to people simple, practical and powerful ideas to enhance their every day lives. As the founder of Blisspot, an online community that encourages sharing positive ideas, and the author of Bliss Every Day, Love Now and Glow While You Grow, Deborah aims to help us to return to our natural state of wellness. She also teaches meditation with her skills based in her kinesiology training with a background in counselling and psychology. Her Passion Deborah is passionate about sharing the skills to make our lives easier. She discovered that this shift is possible, by learning practical skills and techniques. She is an avid speaker, blogger and radio show guest both here in Australia and the United States. Deborah through her e-courses teaches us how to transform any fear, to create new patterns and move forward in our life with a sense of flow and freedom. She is driven by the capacity to synchronise the mind, body and spirit and firmly believes that people have the ability to live a life of freedom beyond stress, worry and struggle. You can discover more about her eCourses at the shop. Her Commitment Deborah is committed to the ongoing improvement of the world we live in and believes in the power of each individual. Her simple, succinct and practical approach to raising the awareness allows people to connect to true peace and happiness. For that reason, she founded Blisspot, an online community transforming everyday lives through encouragement, sharing, education, inspiration and connection in the modern world today. Through articles, conversation, and life-skills, Blisspot focuses on people coming together and evolving in peace and happiness.
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About Blisspot: Blisspot provides tailored wellbeing solutions that support individuals to overcome stress & thrive
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.
Michelle Stewart
Chief Executive Officer of Cure Brain Cancer Foundation
Michelle is currently the Head of Research and Commercial Strategy for the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation where she is responsible for corporate partnership strategy, the development and implementation of a patient-centric brain cancer research funding strateg and innovative trial design.
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About Cure Brain Cancer Foundation: Cure Brain Cancer Foundation is the peak organisation for brain cancer research, awareness and advocacy in Australia.
Sean Hall
CEO & Founder of Medlab Clinical
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About Medlab Clinical: Medlab Clinical Ltd has an outstanding research portfolio in early phase drug discovery across obesity, chronic kidney disease.
Jay Spence
Founder, CEO of Uprise
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About Uprise: Uprise is a coach in a pocket for employees dealing with high workplace demands and stress.
Alicia Keenan
CEO of Aicila Recruitment Pty Ltd
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About Aicila Recruitment Pty Ltd: The Aicila Group Pty Ltd works in partnership with SME’s and Multinational Corporations in Health/Nutrition, Food Production.
Claire Jenkins
CEO & Co-Founder of Vetchat
Claire is a life-long animal lover, devout admirer of her gorgeous Kelpie ‘Red’, veterinarian and a passionate problem solver. Having spent the past 15 years caring for animals as a neighbourhood vet in Melbourne, Sydney and the United Kingdom, Claire was frustrated by one recurring problem. Every day, all over the world, people put off bringing their pet to the vet. Concerned with wasting time or money, when their pet may just be having a bad day, too often leads to pets needing more intensive treatment later, or in the worst case, the loss of a beloved pet. Enter vetchat – providing fast, affordable, expert advice and real time veterinary consultations online, so you can speak directly to a qualified vet without even leaving your home. Founded in 2016, our online service provides the answers you need and is increasing the rate of early intervention by providing pet owners with clear direction and peace of mind. Wherever you are, whenever you need it – vetchat is only a click away.
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About Vetchat: Vetchat provides pre-clinic veterinary consultations online via video consultations and on demand chat.
Walter Kmet
CEO of WentWest Limited
Walter Kmet, with experience of more than 25 years in health and human services in Australia, Asia & UK. He is currently working as a CEO in WentWest Limited. He also holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Western Sydney. Previously, he had worked for University of Queensland, Little Company of Mary Hospital, MIA Limited and many others. He is having experience in a variety of organizational situations in the private, not for profit as well as public sectors. Mr. Kmet has obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Commerce in Accounting and a Diploma in Health Services Management, both from the University of Newcastle. He has also earned a Master’s Degree in Business and Technology from University of New South Wales. Walter is a member of the Ambulance NSW Advisory Council, Board Member of the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association and Co-Chair of the Western Sydney Partnership Advisory Council.
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About University of Western Sydney, WentWest Limited: WentWest has been focused on providing better health care. We do this both as a Regional Training Provider and as a Medicare Local.
Genevieve Davidson
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperFastDiet
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About SuperFastDiet: SuperFastDiet is a healthcare and fitness platform.
Iman Davamoni
Founder & CEO of Purely Polished
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About Purely Polished: A marketplace to book on-demand beauty treatments to have in the comfort of your chosen location.
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
