ABOUT

Our team is driven by the sole purpose of making the health experience better for all

Our Mission

We want to improve both patient and providers health experiences by knitting together the islands of care to make health better for all.

 
 
Empowerment
Efficiency
Empathy
 

We want to give you the tools so you can provide a better health experience for your team and patients.

We work with what you’ve got. Our systems seamlessly integrate in a way that’s both fast and effective.

We are on mission to make health better for both patients and providers as we too want better healthcare.

 

We are a team of healthcare-focused technology professionals who want to mend the health system. We have also experienced the difficulties you are faced with.

We are supported by the team from Sorsix, our technology partner. Together we are making this shared dream a reality.

 
 

The Aceso Team

 
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Gabe Rijpma

CEO

Gabe has been extremely passionate about health and technology for more than 20 years. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Gabe was previously Senior Director of Health & Social Services for Asia at Microsoft. In this role his responsibilities included leading and defining the solution offerings and strategy for meeting the needs of healthcare consumers across Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, India, Greater China and Japan. Before this role Gabe spent 4 years as the Healthcare Industry Director for Microsoft Asia Pacific.

Will Barnett

Founder & COO

Will Barnett has worked on complex technological applications in health and science throughout his career. Will was responsible for the build, design and deployment of 1CHART- Now being used by nurses, GPs, community care and aged care providers across New Zealand to administer over 3.4 million medicines to patients each month.

Dr Tom Varghese

Sales and Marketing Manager

Tom's passions are people, healthcare and technology. His professional background spans across clinical orthodontics, business development and a sprinkling of self starter initiatives for good measure. Having been raised in Dubai, Tom’s outlook has been shaped by multicultural experiences. His most recent role was with Vensa Health in Auckland as part of the Practice Success and Innovation team. In this role, he was responsible for 250 general practices in the Northland- Auckland-Midlands regions. The purview of the role extended into working on population health initiatives with DHB’s and PHO’s in the region.

The Sorsix Team

 

Dalibor Frtunik

CEO

Dalibor is a director of Aceso and has more than a decade of experience in working with complex systems to drive business outcomes in healthcare. Dalibor holds several patents in medical technology and has worked on technology commercialisation projects in Australia and internationally. He currently serves as Head of Product Pinga, our centralised operating system for health - driving electronic referrals, prescriptions, and workflows for over 10 million patients in five countries.

 
 
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Dr Chris Savage

Project Delivery Manager

Chris has 20 years’ experience developing and delivering technology solutions across the telecommunications, finance, regulatory and health sectors. Chris brings his experience and passion delivering into government, primary health and commercial organisations, utilising a variety of project delivery engagement and change management techniques. A Senior Certified Professional with the Australian Computer Society, and Alumni of Canterbury University - Chris leads the team to complete deliveries that meet expectations.

 

Dr Scott Brownless

Head of Data Science

Scott is a senior data scientist with over 5 years experience in applying innovative visualization and analysis concepts to the health, manufacturing, and retail sectors. He holds a PhD in Photonics from the University of Sydney. Scott has led teams to deliver software and analytics projects ranging from dashboards to advanced data integration. Working with Mercy Radiology in Auckland, Scott led a team of data scientists to complete a data engineering and visualization project.

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Cheree Skinner

Project Manager

With over 20 years’ experience in IT Service and Project Delivery and Governance, Cheree is customer centric and has a passion for building positive relationships within and between teams. Successfully delivering quality software projects in multiple environments, Cheree is also skilled at establishing project delivery methodologies and scalable frameworks supporting the Software Delivery Lifecycle. She brings with her a professional and open approach to project delivery and has managed vendor-delivered projects across Australia and New Zealand.

 

Get in touch today to discuss how we can help you create better health experiences for your organisation

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