Tech Founder Interview Series

Tell us a bit more about your background.

I graduated as a physiotherapist in 1997 and built early experience across a range of clinical settings before transitioning into professional sport. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve worked within elite high-performance environments across cricket, golf, and Olympic sport. In 2008, I founded a multidisciplinary allied health business that has grown into one of Adelaide’s leading providers of musculoskeletal, neurological, and sports medicine services. Through this work, I recognised a critical gap in objective brain health assessment — a need as essential as any other health domain. I co-founded Your Brain Health to meet that challenge and drive global change.

How did your entrepreneurial journey begin?

I've always been drawn to solving problems and improving how things work, especially in healthcare. Over the years, I’ve explored several startup ideas, some gained traction within my clinic, others didn’t. But every experience sharpened my understanding of what it takes to build something impactful. I’ve learned that success requires more than a great idea; it takes the right team. That insight has shaped my approach to Your Brain Health, surrounding myself with experts in technology, finance, and marketing, and focusing on the areas where I can bring the most value: vision, execution, and clinical insight.

Introduce your product and give us your elevator pitch!

We’re a medical health and biotech software company working at both the elite and grassroots levels of sport, but our impact goes beyond sport, reaching into community health and neurological research.

At the heart of what we do is ScreenIT — the first software platform to unify over 50 currently fragmented brain health assessment tools into a single, intelligent interface. We integrate the latest validated technologies to provide a comprehensive, multidimensional picture of brain function, all in real-time.

This meets a huge market demand: sports organizations, clinicians, and researchers are calling out for a simple, scalable, and efficient solution that gives actionable insights, not just more data. Our platform supports faster, smarter decisions around concussion management, brain performance, and even talent identification.

Our vision is to become the world’s leading platform for brain health and performance in sport, and we’re already on our way.

We’ve secured clients across some of the biggest global sporting codes, from the AFL, English Premier League, and Formula 1, to cricket and rugby. What started as a solution to improve concussion assessment quickly evolved. These partners are now using our platform to unlock performance optimization and identify emerging talent based on brain metrics.

Looking ahead, our roadmap includes:

• Building a globally significant brain health data lake,

• Integrating AI for predictive and personalised insights, and

• Achieving regulatory approval as a diagnostic tool — opening pathways into clinical and insurance markets. Its important to note there is currently no diagnostic tool for concussion.

We have attracted the support of significant leaders in the world of sports concussion. South Africa’s  Prof Jon Patricios, the lead creator of the SCAT test, Jon sits on concussion advisory panels for World Rugby, FiFA and the NFL and  Prof Mike Loosemore, arguably the UK’s leading sports concussion medical figure and former CMO of the UK Olympic Team have both joined our advisory team.

We’re building the infrastructure for a global brain health ecosystem.

What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced?

Raising the funds to support our growth and development.

What was one of the most interesting (or useful) things you learned this year?

“This year, I’ve learned the importance of shaping the business around the problem we’re solving, not just the product we’re building. That shift in mindset helped us refine our messaging, better align our partnerships, and focus on the deeper value our data delivers. It’s easy to get caught up in the development of what we think is important, but stepping back to look through the lens of the end user and the system they operate in has created a better focus for us.

Link to app or website: 

Your Brain Health: Fostering A World Of Healthier Brains - Home

What advice would you give to someone trying to follow your footsteps?

• Be clear on the problem you're solving and who you're solving it for. Without clarity, everything else becomes guesswork.

• Surround yourself with a strong, supportive team. Bring in people with expertise you don’t have, especially in finance, marketing, and tech.

• Plan your runway carefully. Things usually take longer than you think, and managing cash flow can be the difference between momentum and stagnation.

Something you do weekly that helps you progress, a good habit, a clever tool or something you do that supports you personally 

I try to be disciplined with prioritisation and delegation. I receive a constant stream of requests and decisions each day, but not everything needs to be solved immediately and I’m often not the best person to solve it. Delegating to someone with the right skills or capacity keeps the business moving forward.

I start every day with a coffee and a focused 15-minute planning session, mapping out my top priorities. This short routine helps me work with clarity and intention, even on the busiest days.

What’s next? What are the big things to come? 

Data Realisation: One of the most transformative realisations in our journey has been understanding the long-term value of the structured brain health data we’re capturing. This data doesn’t just serve clinicians or athletes, it has the potential to inform government policy, enhance insurance risk models, accelerate pharma R&D, and support AI-driven diagnostics. We're now actively developing commercial pathways to realise and scale this opportunity.