The Board:


Ian Mutton - Chairman (nominee)

Ian brings to Meridian over 30 years experience in Corporate Law and has oversight of all general legal matter and Corporate Governance issues.

Ian’s past career has included bringing prosecutions for the Crown Solicitor under the Trade Practices Legislation to managing a portfolio of anti-trust matters for CSR, both within Australia, NZ and the US, most notably asbestos related.

In addition to his duties at Meridian, Ian continues a thriving practice, authoring, presenting and advising on anti-trust matters (i.e. managing relationships with enforcement bodies and providing awareness and compliance programs).



David R Ashton -  Managing Director

David Ashton has worked for over fifteen years in the Government IT sector. He has extensive experience in the planning, building and implementing health related applications particularly in the clinical information management area.

David has had substantial workshop experience and has worked with a large number of clinicians, ancillary staff, allied health workers, health IT and management professionals. David has a wide ranging and in depth knowledge of the health system and its language - especially in the areas of patient care and management.

David has been instrumental in developing the concepts and approach to an intelligent data management engine. These concepts grew out of his work in developing a solution to the problems of having to construct a system that supports complex volatile clinical data especially for Obstetrics.
Prior to Meridian, David held a numbers of positions at Cognos (Australia) including that of Marketing Director and Country Manager.

David holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hon) (Electrical, communications)
and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science & Applied Mathematics)



Dr Michael Barnet - Director of Operations

As a Director, Dr Barnet is responsible for a broad range of activities, including day to day operations, finance, strategy, direction and planning as well as client relationship management and HR.

Michael has an in depth knowledge of the health industry, where he has spent the bulk of his time over the last 10 years.

Over the past 20 years he has been involved in a wide range of systems related projects from strategic planning, through the development life cycle to systems support across a wide range of industries, including an extended period as MIS at CSR Ltd.

Since establishing Meridian Health Informatics, Michael has been involved in many health related project including systems requirements reviews, data modelling, managing, design and development of over nine years with systems now spread over 40 public hospitals. Michael has had extensive experience in software design, data architecture, requirements analysis, project management, and conducting workshops.

He has a broad knowledge of the public/private health sector, its trends and strategies and the language and standards relevant to this sector and has been instrumental in helping to develop a conceptual basis for clinical product development in Meridian based on the needs and current state of this market.

Michael holds the following qualifications:

Master of Applied Science (Computing Science)
Scottish Higher National Diploma in Computing,
Doctor of Philosophy (Physical Chemistry)
Bachelor of Science (Chemistry Hons I )



Senior Management:

Therese Kramer - Sales and Marketing Manager

Therese's experience covers sales and marketing, education, nursing, records management, hospitality and agriculture.

Over the past 23 years she has held marketing management, product management, and sales positions, and has clinical trial management and product development experience with several international medical companies including Sales and Marketing Manager Australasia with Cochlear Limited. During her career, Therese has been strategically involved in the local and international marketing campaigns for a number of high profile products for International and Australian companies, and has managed product feasibility studies and business development for several small Australian manufacturing companies.

Therese has a B. Bus in Marketing from Charles Sturt University and is currently undertaking a M. Mgt at the University of Technology Sydney. Therese is also a double certificated trained nurse, with 10 years experience from nursing unit management to nurse educator and clinical services training. Her work has taken her to the United States and Europe.


Ambi Thirukumar - Senior Analyst, Testing & QA.

After beginning his career with the Corporate MIS department within CSR Ltd., followed by an extended period as a senior consultant within NSW Health, working on both Clinical and Financial systems, Ambi joined Meridian in 1997.

Since then, Ambi has managed systems testing and quality assurance within the Meridian development team.

He holds the following degrees:

M. Com. Major in Information Systems and Management from the University of New South Wales, 1990 and B. App. Sc. (Hon.) Major in Computing Science, Sub-major in Operations Research from the University of Technology, Sydney, 1987.

John van Yzendoorn - Customer Support Manager

Since joining Meridian, John has worked for over seven years on projects for the Government IT sector helping develop and support a range of custom systems and providing related services to a large number NSW Health sites. He has been a member of the project teams that designed and developed of a group of health related systems including operating theatre and medical offic

John has a wide-ranging knowledge of the systems used within NSW Health.
Prior to joining Meridian, John held technical positions at CSR Ltd and Barings Bank in the UK.

John holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science) from the University of Technology in Sydney, NSW.