CARDIHAB - Key Persons


Alanna DeGraaf

Job Titles:
  • BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Caroline White

Job Titles:
  • BRAND MANAGER
  • Marketing Specialist With a
Caroline is a marketing specialist with a BA in media and communications and over a decade of experience in healthcare. She has worked in both public and private sectors, Pathology, Pharmacy, and Allied Health organisations, and is excited to be able to contribute her marketing expertise to an innovative digital healthcare organisation.

Christine Kwong

Job Titles:
  • CLINICAL LEAD
  • Clinical Nurse
Christine is a Clinical Nurse with experience in cardiac nursing such as Coronary Care, Cardiac Catheter Lab and 10 years as a Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse. As our Clinical Lead, Christine is responsible for ensuring the design of our care plans are both aligned with clinical guidelines and clinical practice. She is also responsible for ensuring that our customers are supported as they integrate our platform into their models of care.

Dr John Rivers

Job Titles:
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
  • Founding Member of the Queensland Cardiovascular Group
Dr John Rivers is a practising cardiologist and founding member of the Queensland Cardiovascular Group. John has extensive experience in business development and governance in the healthcare industry. He has a long term interest in medical quality systems, particularly clinician driven systems for measuring and improving patient outcomes, including the interface with clinical governance. He is a previous board member and Commissioner of the Health Quality and Complaints Commission of Queensland. John is an active member of the Brisbane Angels group.

Duncan Ion

Job Titles:
  • Product Manager
  • PRODUCT LEAD
Duncan has a BSc and over 20 years experience within Product Management, Technology and Customer Success. Working across well-being, retail ecommerce and loyalty he has a breath of experience managing digital products and delivering customer needs through personalisation, automation, and scale.

George Lambrou

Job Titles:
  • BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
George has a BAppSc of Human Biology and over 25 years of sales experience, specialising in healthcare, digital services and FMCG. George has experience working at all levels of the healthcare industry from C-suite, clinicians, nurses, allied health and administration teams to help deliver projects and outcomes. He also has experience dealing from pharmacy to hospital to health associations and state and national health departments.

Grant Jennings - CTO

Job Titles:
  • CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
  • Senior Technical Lead
Grant has a double Bachelor degrees in Engineering and IT and has more than 20 years' experience in software architecture and development internationally. As our Tech Lead, Grant is responsible for the technical direction and delivery of our service offering.

Greta Liell-Cock

Job Titles:
  • BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT MANAGER

Helen Souris - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Helen has a BA in Statistics and Computer Science with 20+ years of commercial expertise in FMCG, digital innovation, MedTech and BioTech. As our CEO, Helen's focus is to deliver innovative solutions that leverage the capabilities of technology and data to improve outcomes for patients and healthcare professionals. Helen is a strong advocate for evidence-based digital health innovations that support the growth of the Australian digital health ecosystem.

Maha Khalaf

Job Titles:
  • EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Maha is a highly skilled professional with a BA in Science and wide ranging experience across several Australian industries including health and pharmaceuticals. Maha provides high level business and Executive support to the CEO, and has more than two decades experience working in fast-paced environments assisting with key decision making and setting effective priorities to attain business goals. She is passionate about healthcare and making a difference in patients lives.

Mark Roldan

Job Titles:
  • SENIOR ENGINEER

Paul Butler

Job Titles:
  • General Manager
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
  • Investment Director at Uniseed
Paul Butler is an Investment Director at Uniseed and is based at UQ. Paul is an experienced General Manager who has led and developed teams in a technology domain across the communications, medical and mining industries. Prior to Uniseed Paul was CEO at Serene Medical, CEO at SmartCap Technologies, Executive General Manager Products at GroundProbe and CEO of ASX listed USCOM. Paul was previously an Investment Manager at Uniseed in Sydney and also started his own consulting business, CEO Alliance, to support technology companies as they navigate their way to commercialisation having market experience in Australia, Europe and the USA. Paul is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and with qualifications in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Economics, he has been able to develop and bring new products to market. Through various roles Paul has had liaison with customers via direct and indirect sales, government health systems, contract manufacturers (domestic, Asian and USA), third party logistics providers, distribution channels and financial auditors.

Philip Barnes - CFO, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
  • Managing Director
Philip has over 25 years of experience in helping small and medium businesses succeed by providing them with strategic and financial advice. He is also passionate about helping Australian tech startups launch their products in the US market. Philip is a chartered accountant, is a graduate of the AICD Philip is the managing director of CFO Insight, a consulting business that provides financial and

Prof Hugh Dawkins

Job Titles:
  • MEMBER of the BOARD

Rebecca Burton

Job Titles:
  • STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Rees Pawson

Job Titles:
  • FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Saisrikar Paruchuri

Job Titles:
  • Data Engineer Data Analyst Data Scientist

Sonya Kahler

Job Titles:
  • TRAINING and CUSTOMER SUPPORT MANAGER

Stefan Granitzer

Job Titles:
  • PRODUCT MANAGER - COMPLIANCE and GOVERNANCE

Tim Fortin - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Business Executive
Tim Fortin is a business executive with a strong track record of leadership over 23 years in the medical device industry across Australia & New Zealand, the Asia Pacific region and globally as a member of two executive leadership teams. Most recently he served as the Vice President & Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand for Medtronic, a global healthcare company committed to improving the lives of people through medical technologies, services and solutions. Prior to Medtronic Tim had 11 years at Boston Scientific where he finished as the General Manager, Cardiovascular, ANZ. He started his career in the Canadian banking sector before relocating to Australia. Tim has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Western University, Canada, has completed an Executive Program at Stanford University and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.