Management team

Andrew is a co-founder of Healthphone and leads the development of the company’s implementation methodology and its engagement with implementation partners. Prior to Healthphone, Andrew worked for many years as a specialist consultant and project manager, focusing on high risk and complex health IT projects. He has also been a key strategic IT advisor to the New Zealand Ministry of Health, playing a key role in a number of important projects such as the National Health IT Strategy and the National Mental Health Telemedicine Strategy. Earlier in his career, as managing consultant for SAP Australasia, Andrew held program management and QA roles for companies including Daimler Chrysler and Telecom New Zealand. He has also held project management roles with Ernst & Young for several large international systems rollouts in the Asia Pacific region.
Andrew studied both business and accounting at university and has specialized over the years in health and IT consultancy moving from his earlier involvement in a wide range of industries.

As VP of Products & Engineering, Brent is responsible for translating market requirements into the company's product and technology strategy and architectures, together with design, build and deployment of the products against the strategy and architectures. Brent was most recently CTO for The Simpl Group where he was the lead enterprise architect for what has become Microsoft’s Health Connection Engine, a project he continues to work closely on with Microsoft. For more than 17 years, Brent has served as a consultant on strategic planning, information systems/architecture reviews and planning, feasibility studies, process analysis and improvement, business requirements analysis and systems selection, financial structuring and organization review, across a broad range of industries including health, local government, education, utilities, insurance, manufacturing, distribution, retail, service and international trade.

Brent holds a bachelor’s of science and a bachelor’s of commerce from the University of Auckland and is an NZ Chartered Accountant .

As Regional Alliance Director, Danny is responsible for expanding the company’s relationships with strategic service providers, OEMs and other regional channel partners in support of territory level efforts. Danny has more than 17 years of experience in IT and telecommunications. Prior to joining Healthphone, Danny was vice president, Managed Services for the Netstar Group. In this role he grew and took NetStar's flagship Global NetCentre's (GNC) solution, which he founded in Australia, to 42 countries across the globe. He has also held professional services management and senior engineering roles for companies including IKON (Washington DC), UBS Warburg (London), ICL (Greenwich) and The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia).

Danny holds a degree in computing studies from the University of Canberra where he was awarded the prestigious University Prize at graduation. He has been a guest lecturer at various universities and a speaker at IT investment and industry events.

As Country Manager of Australia and New Zealand, Paul is responsible for working with Healthphone's channel partners to develop the Healthphone business in Australia and New Zealand. Most recently Paul was principal of Lanamere Consulting, a boutique firm assisting healthcare organizations with the procurement of IT systems, especially clinical information systems. Previously, Paul was the sales director for Australia, New Zealand and Canada for iSOFT plc. Prior to iSOFT, Paul spent eighteen years with companies including Cerner Corporation, IBM, 3M and Bayer Pharmaceuticals in a variety of executive, sales and marketing positions.

Paul holds a diploma in rural technology from Queensland Agricultural College (now University of Queensland). He also is a member of the iLab Advisory Board (a Queensland Government incubator), providing mentoring to early stage companies in the Healthcare Sector
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Mark is responsible for developing and managing Healthphone’s alliances with strategic partners including communications service providers, OEM’s, ISV’s and other technology and service organizations. Prior to joining Healthphone, he was director of business development for VeriSign where he was responsible for global new business development targeting mobile and fixed Communications Service Providers. Mark also has more than 15 years of experience and proven success developing strategies and executing business plans with companies such as MAB Consulting Group, Avanquest Software, Teltone Corporation, and GN Netcom.

Mark holds a bachelor’s of science in marketing from Ferris State University in Michigan.