Team
Experience across a range of clinical, commercial and leadership roles has provided Pat with a broad perspective that has shaped his ability to deliver outcomes for healthcare clients.
From having General Management responsibilities with a multinational healthcare equipment manufacturer, to being the CEO of a brain cancer focused Not-for-Profit organisation and holding numerous commercial, strategy and project leadership roles has enabled Pat to demonstrate his ability to lead, engage and get results.
Tiffany Chiew, Executive Director
An accomplished healthcare executive with extensive experience leading Sales, Operations, and Service teams across government, public and private hospitals, clinics, and corporates throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.
Proven success as General Manager for ASX-listed companies with full P&L responsibility across capital equipment, consumables, and service. Skilled in driving strategic sales, managing multi-unit operations, and fostering growth through partnerships with leading OEMs.
Known for building strong relationships with stakeholders and customers, and delivering consistent results.
Committed to achieving commercial outcomes while ensuring high-quality service and innovative solutions in healthcare environments.
Salvatore Cristiano, General Manager of Operations and Quality
Salvatore is a strategy and operations executive with 10+ years’ experience leading the creation, implementation, improvement and transformation of initiatives and services in quality/regulatory driven organisations.
With an outcome focused and continuous improvement mindset, Salvatore is known for his strategic analysis and change management strengths, improvement to operations and collaborative approach in building strong stakeholder relationships.
Most recently, Salvatore led service optimisation and business operations for a global healthcare equipment manufacturer while also serving on two boards/committees in the education sector including a community Registered Training Organisation (RTO). He has also mentored researchers/start-ups to discover and validated the potential impact of their research.
Samanatha Robinson, MME / FFE Construction & Commissioning Lead
Samantha (Sam) is an accomplished infrastructure specialist with 15+ years of industry experience delivering complex social infrastructure projects. She has contributed to a $2.5B portfolio spanning refurbishment, brownfield, and greenfield hospital developments.
She brings a unique end-to-end perspective shaped by roles across contractor, client and project management environments. This range of experience underpins her ability to seamlessly integrate FFE and MME scopes within major construction programs, ensuring coordinated, efficient and outcomes-driven delivery.
Sam is recognised for her collaborative leadership style and her ability to build trusted relationships with executive and project stakeholders. She is known for fostering alignment, driving accountability and creating environments that support high performance and shared success.
A strategic influencer, Sam consistently leads structured engagement and consultation processes that enable informed decision-making and deliver successful outcomes in complex, high-stakes environments.
Grant Atkinson, Specialist Advisor Healthcare
Grant Atkinson has extensive experience across clinical imaging, healthcare technology sales and project management roles, with a strong track record delivering complex medical equipment installations across Western Australia and broader Australian healthcare settings.
With a Bachelor of Science, a Diploma of Management and professional development in project management, customer impact, strategic selling and healthcare installation delivery, Grant combines clinical domain knowledge with commercial and operational capability.
Grant’s background in radiography, diagnostic imaging quality management, radiology equipment sales and large-scale medical device installation projects enables him to support healthcare clients with practical project leadership, stakeholder engagement and technically informed delivery advice.
Zachary Francis, Specialist Advisor Healthcare
With first-class honours in Biomedical Engineering, Zachary leverages his biomedical qualifications and hands-on medical device experience with his skills in project management, compliance/regulation and technical support and analysis.
His background includes maintaining hospital systems and equipment across New South Wales hospitals including leading recall operations whilst helping clinical staff with technical support.
Zachary’s focus on collaborating with cross-discipline teams to deliver on major projects allow him to improve healthcare outcomes with technical and operational competencies within clinical contexts.
Paul Higginson, Specialist Advisor Healthcare
Paul has experience working across a range of clinical, commercial and project roles.
A clinical background and domain knowledge in Operating Theatres and Major Medical Equipment enables Paul to facilitate project outcomes across broad stakeholder groups.
Specific commercial & technical experience in a wide range of minimally invasive surgeries affords an appreciation for the challenges and opportunities, and a capacity to add value in procuring of new or refurbishing existing operative suites, to the process.
Bella Tong, Specialist Advisor CSSD
With 12+ years in infection prevention, sterilization, medical devices, and operating room environments, Bella Tong combines clinical, managerial, and commercial expertise to deliver practical healthcare solutions.
Bella has supported hospitals, manufacturers, and distributors across Australia, U.S and Southeast Asia, advising on CSSD and Operating Room (OP) operations, infrastructure planning, regulatory compliance, and capital equipment strategy.
She has managed portfolios valued at $10–15M, launched infection control and medical device solutions across multiple regions, and partnered with leading OEMs to drive market expansion.
Bella also leads clinical education, staff training, and market entry initiatives, helping organisations improve patient safety, reduce risk, and achieve sustainable growth.
Caitlin Tu, Specialist Advisor and Projects Officer
Caitlin Tu is a diagnostic radiographer with 12+ years in medical imaging, including senior national operations leadership across multi-site networks in NSW, QLD and VIC. She holds postgraduate qualifications in radiography and clinical education.
Caitlin’s experience spans P&L and operational performance management, clinical governance, staffing and workforce planning, and business case development across large radiology networks. Caitlin combines frontline clinical expertise with strategic leadership, bringing a practical, outcomes-focused approach to healthcare project delivery.
She has a strong track record of building trusted relationships with clinicians, executives and industry stakeholders, and is known for translating complex operational challenges into clear, actionable solutions
Ross Wright, Specialist Advisor Healthcare
Ross Wright was the co-founder and CEO of Zed Technologies, a Melbourne-based pioneer in cloud-based diagnostic image sharing. Starting in the industry as a radiographer, Ross has held senior roles with multinational PACS vendors, teleradiology providers, and corporate radiology firms before launching Zed Technologies in 2012. He is passionate about transforming healthcare, focusing on the use of technology to improve referrer and patient access to diagnostic imaging.
Educated at RMIT with a Diploma in Applied Science (Medical Radiations) and a Master of Business (Marketing), Ross has combined clinical expertise with strategic leadership in digital health.
Michael Ryan, Industry Advisor Pharmacy
Michael Ryan is a registered pharmacist, holds an MBA and is a Fellow (by examination) of SHPA.
He has been the project director or project manager of all PharmConsult’s projects since PharmConsult was established in 2004. He has conducted reviews of public and private hospital pharmacy services, hospital medicine management processes, medicine-related activities at a variety of healthcare facilities, provided specialist advice to state and Federal health departments, and managed request for tender processes for hospitals and health services.
Michael has extensive experience in hospital pharmacy services, including as a director of pharmacy in both public and private hospitals, pharmaceuticals distribution and pharmacy practice research.
Rosina Guastella, Specialist Advisor Pharmacy
Rosina (Rosie) Guastella has a wealth of experience in consulting, having worked as a senior consultant in the healthcare sector for more than 15 years, as well as specialised expertise in pharmacy and medicines management, derived from an extensive career as a pharmacist in the community, and private hospital settings.
Rosie has led and supported a broad range projects spanning pharmacy service design, evaluations, medication safety, compliance audits, tenders and procurement, contract management, benchmarking, and research. She brings a practical understanding of healthcare systems and their complexities and a collaborative approach to every project to ensure outcomes and deliverables are tailored for client needs.
Rosie’s previous experience includes being Regional Manager VIC/SA for one of Australia’s largest providers of private hospital pharmacy services and working on professional development and pre-registrant training programs for the WA and Vic branches of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
Now based in New Zealand, Rosie is able to include observations and learnings from New Zealand’s healthcare model to her understanding of healthcare systems.
Tony Chang, Specialist Advisor Pharmacy and Technology
Tony Chang has more than 15 years’ experience as a pharmacist in business management, medication management and consulting roles across a range of pharmacy and industry settings.
In that time, he has managed a broad range of projects, and developed expertise in areas such as pharmacy service model reviews, workflow and spatial planning and optimisation, legal, financial and NSQHS compliance auditing, performance management and numerous RFP projects for the procurement of pharmacy robotic systems, pharmacy services and pharmaceuticals for both public and private hospitals. Tony has also worked with many multinational pharmaceutical companies on a range of market access projects.
Simon Venville, Specialist Advisor Pharmacy
Simon Venville is a Healthcare Management Consultant delivering precision in pharmaceutical strategy. With a foundation in pharmacy, Simon brings clear thinking to complex healthcare decisions, moving clients from complexity to clarity. He specialises in product lifecycle innovation, targeted business strategy, and strategic commercial negotiation.
Simon helps leaders understand how the health service genuinely buys, funds, and uses medicines, drawing on his extensive commercial leadership in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors.
At Core Connect Group, he provides tailored support to secure high-value agreements and solve tough operational challenges.
David Kong, Specialist Advisor Healthcare
David Kong is a registered pharmacist and holds a PhD. He has extensive experience in hospital pharmacy, academia and research. His work in several areas have impacted clinical practice including, the role of pharmacists in antimicrobial stewardship, use of intravenous olanzapine as a mean to sedate highly agitated patients and the use of voriconazole eye drops in fungal keratitis.
David has published widely (> 200 peer review manuscripts) in the area of medicines use and safety.
He also has extensive experience in the use of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and in undertaking clinical trials involving humans.
David Ford, Specialist Advisor Pharmacy
David Ford is a hospital pharmacist and executive with 43 years of clinical and management experience in hospital administration and department directorship, with key strengths and demonstrated skills in:
- Leadership and change management
- Staff management and development
- Financial management of complex budgets
- Procurement, contract, stock and supply chain management
- Project leadership and management
- Expertise in diverse hospital department management
John Le Mesurier, Specialist Advisor
John Le Mesurier has held senior management positions in major healthcare companies and has been a Regional/ Country Manager for global consulting firms (Global Data Plc, Childs Davidson Ltd).
John is completing a PhD on optimising change management practices in healthcare environments and has taught courses at The University of Sydney in business analytics, change management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement for more than 15 years.
His recent projects have included developing stakeholder engagement strategies, risk management plans for emerging opportunities, change management plans associated with evolving business models, all within healthcare environments, as well as emerging applications with AI.
Elif Kücüktas, Specialist Advisor Healthcare
Elif is a highly accomplished professional in the field of Biomedical Engineering, bringing a wealth of niche expertise to our team. She holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and possesses extensive knowledge of the industry, staying up-to-date with the latest innovations.
With a diverse background that spans government work and management consulting, and as a certified and experienced project manager, her exceptional leadership skills and dedication to excellence make her a valuable asset to our team.
Irene White, Operations and Marketing Advisor
A marketing and communications specialist with more than 10 years experience in health care promotion, Irene combines her healthcare experience with marketing and communications knowledge to add value to health clients as a part of CCG project teams.
Experienced in the development and implementation of strategic marketing and business development activities, Irene brings expertise in market research to inform planning, innovative campaign development, health services promotion, and engaging physicians and healthcare partners to build mutually beneficial relationships and attract referrals.
Oliver Andrea, Core Clinical Associate
Oliver Andrea is a Physiotherapist with a passion for improving healthcare through innovation, collaboration and evidence-based practice. Alongside my clinical role within the public health system, I enjoy working to solve operational challenges and develop practical solutions that improve patient and service outcomes.
Thea Pratseya, Specialist Advisor Pharmacy
Through her work supporting pharmacists in clinical operations, delivering technical language instruction, and maintaining high standards of service in fast-paced settings, Thea has demonstrated strong analytical, communication, and organisational capabilities.
Complemented by her studies in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney and Politecnico di Milano, she brings a disciplined and solutions-oriented approach to problem solving, preparing her to contribute effectively as a Biomedical Engineering Intern in both technical and collaborative capacities.