Founders
Jenny O'Neill
Founder
Health IT executive with 20+ years experience in senior roles, Jenny steered EpiSoft from concept design to mature product.
Proven industry leader – first female President of 100+ member Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA).
Proven eHealth thought leader – several previous products successfully commercialised.
Michael Hurse
Founder
Health IT executive with 20+ years experience in senior roles, Michael steered EpiSoft from concept design to mature product with SaaS opportunities in numerous chronic disease markets.
Proven industry leader – former national Board member Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA).
Clinical Team
Sally Woodhead
Clinical Application Specialist
Sally is a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience in nursing and midwifery, the last seven years working in oncology which included 5 ½ years as a clinical trials coordinator.
Sally is responsible for configuring and maintaining oncology and haematology protocols from EviQ, undertaking User Acceptance Testing on new features on behalf of clients, co-ordinating input of new specifications by multiple clients, and providing ongoing support to users of the EpiSteme™ protocol-based care modules.
Sally works tirelessly to ensure that EpiSoft’s Cancer Application is the most relevant, safe and user-friendly system available to health professionals involved in cancer services.
Lily Chong
Application Pharmacist
Lily is a clinical pharmacist with extensive experience in oncology and general pharmacy services.
Lily has worked with several clinical systems as an application subject matter expert, designing and testing functional requirements, and providing clinical advice to the technical team. She has been involved in numerous successful implementations and systems go-live support.
Lily is an experienced trainer not only for application end user training but also in clinical skills for pharmacists at a local and international level.
Christine Reed
Clinical Tester
EpiSoft’s clinical software tester and end user support. Christine is a registered paediatric nurse (RN) with over twenty years’ experience, working mainly in neurology and neurosurgery (brain tumours), but also with patients with other paediatric cancers. She was involved in the delivery of many treatment modalities.
Since 2014 she has been employed by EpiSoft as a clinical software tester. Christine’s meticulous approach to testing has played a vital role in the development of EpiSoft’s cancer application
Laraine Cobbing
Cancer Application Support
Laraine is a registered nurse with over 20 years of clinical experience in oncology & haematology nursing including managing Royal North Shore Hospital’s cancer services.
Laraine is fast-becoming an expert on the ins-and-outs of EpiSoft’s oncology management system. This product knowledge is applied to a wide variety of responsibilities including the maintenance of the integrated eviQ protocol library, education of clinical end-users as well as software testing and customer advocacy and support.
Customer Relations Team
Edward Dennett
Business Development Manager
Finance & Pharmacology graduate with expertise in capital markets and business development. Experienced customer relationships and partnerships manager.
Versatile project manager including pre-sales, commercials, design and implementation.
Aoife O'Sullivan
Sales & Marketing Manager
Aoife is a science graduate with expertise in start-up companies. Aoife has wide variety of skills from lead generation, marketing, graphic design, client relationship management, project management
Justin Laffey
Business Development
Security and IT graduate with proven success in pre-sales and project management.
Justin is also part of the EpiSoft software testing team focussed on integration and security testing as well as other aspects of the software development life cycle.
Kallan Hurse
Customer Success Consultant
Audio Engineering student with a proven track record in customer service and a passion for software testing.
With his approachable nature, Kallan is our customer’s first line of support. He advocates for the customer in all aspects of the business to ensure their needs are prioritised.
Technology Team
Gihan Wickramaarachchi
Solution Architect
Qualified IT professional with over 10 years of experience in business technology systems with a demonstrable track record of success in software development, technology integration and major IT project implementations in the fields of airline, retail and health.
Andy Le
Software Engineer
Junior IT Professional with a Bachelor in Science in Information Technology.
EpiSoft is Andy’s second professional software engineering role. He has already proven his capability over the last 3 months having hit the ground running as the lead developer on a significant program of work.
Mark Ferguson
Cloud Infrastructure Manager
With 30 years’ experience in digital design, operations and customer engagement. Mark is ITIL Masters qualified and also provides project management services for new client implementations and major upgrades. Mark’s responsibilities include cloud service provisioning, performance tuning, service standardisation, service levels and ensuring timely delivery of projects to client budget. As a member of EpiSoft’s Information Security Committee, Mark is involved in all aspects of information security governance covering data security, integrity and information privacy.
David Politis
Software Engineer
Junior IT Professional with a Diploma in Web Development.
David brings 5+ years web development experience to the table developed in a variety of roles, including customer-facing helpdesk support, freelance work and more recently DevOps in a medical consumables business.
Advisory Board
Prof Michael Legg PhD FFSc(RCPA) FAICD FAIM FACHI
Member - EpiSoft Advisory Board
Previous senior executive pathology corporate, health IT consultant with over 35 years’ experience in program management, standards development and health IT industry leadership including past President of HISA, current Chair of RCPA Informatics.
Expert in cancer informatics and Australia’s foremost expert in pathology informatic
John Dennett BEng
Member - EpiSoft Advisory Board
30+ years in pharmaceutical industry in senior Director roles
Led major innovation and change projects across Asia Pacific ;
Recently retired, now consultant to pharma industry on activity-based workplace design and implementation and IT related projects
Rod Skellet BAgSc
Non-Executive Board Member
30+ years in finance industry including in Ord Minnett, Deutsche Bank, BBY and most recently Origin Capital.
Rod assists a wide range of businesses with capital raising and Initial Public Offerings
Rod joined EpiSoft Board in 2015 following resignation of former Board member Chris Laffey and he plays a key advisory role in financial management and valuation
Rob Love BSc MBA
Member - EpiSoft Advisory Board
20+ years in pharma industry in senior Director roles in Business Development & Marketing
Led major innovation and future mapping programs
Multiple awards for most valued contribution to sales
Currently consultant to the pharmaceutical industry
Katrina O’Leary BA LLB LLM
EpiSoft Legal Counsel
Experienced IP/IT lawyer with top tier law firm private practice background; many years experience in Europe and Australia. Played a lead role in CSIRO’s successful WLAN patent enforcement program, which yielded close to $500 million in royalties for Australian science from litigation in the US and Germany
Emeritus Prof Graham Macdonald
Member - EpiSoft Advisory Board
Nephrologist for 28 years including senior academic and hospital appointments before joining Merck & Co as Medical Director and External Licensing Co-ordinator.
One of Australia’s most respected and experienced scientists and biotech commercialisation professionals
Callum Bir BSc ComSc BSc CompEng MBA
Member - EpiSoft Advisory Board
20+ years of global business experiences in IT market, won multiple innovation awards out of Singapore for driving AI-based identification of risks of heart attacks and stroke with wearable devices.
As CEO of AI Australia, as well as in his former roles at Microsoft and McCann Health, Callum has extensive experience creating and developing strategies to ensure businesses are at the forefront of medical technology as well as the application and integration of medical software to 21st-Century treatments.