Our Team
The team behind Apostele
Born from an eight-year partnership between UNSW's biomedical engineers and Prince of Wales Hospital's cardiology unit, TCC was first proven in cardiac care — then adapted by Nigel and Sze-Yuan to meet one of Australia's most urgent healthcare challenges during COVID. Apostele exists to bring that same evidence-led approach to remote patient monitoring more broadly.
David du Plessis
Senior Healthcare Executive
A senior healthcare executive with more than two decades of experience leading innovation across Australia’s health, aged care, and insurance sectors. He has built a career at the intersection of strategy, technology, and health system reform — driving improvements in access, sustainability, and patient outcomes.
David has led large-scale contracting, funding, and digital transformation initiatives, working across public and private health systems to advance telehealth and value-based care. With a background in computer science and a deep understanding of health policy and operations, he is committed to harnessing data and technology to deliver more connected, patient-centred models of care for all Australians.
Professor Sze-Yuan Ooi
Co-Founder · Senior Staff Cardiologist
Senior Staff Cardiologist and Director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, with extensive clinical experience in coronary intervention and cardiac device (pacemakers and defibrillators) implantation. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with Honours from the University of Queensland in 1997 and was awarded a Doctorate in Medicine with commendation through the University of Leeds in 2008.
As a Conjoint Professor at UNSW Sydney and the Virtual Health Co-Director for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Sze-Yuan’s focus is the development, validation and implementation of novel digital technologies to improve healthcare efficiencies and patient outcomes.
Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell
Co-Founder · Head, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW
Head of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW, working in the areas of bionics, telehealth, biosignal processing, and physiological modelling.
Nigel has authored 300+ journal papers and been awarded over $100 million in R&D and infrastructure funding. Over his career he has mentored 70 PhD students and delivered more than 150 keynote presentations. He is a Fellow of seven learned academies throughout the world.
As Co-Director of the Tyree Foundation Institute of Health Engineering, Nigel is responsible for delivering on the Institute’s vision, creating a transformational engine of discovery, innovation and healthcare translation.
Research & deployment partners
UNSW Sydney
Research & validation partner
SESLHD
Health-district deployment partner
Tyree Foundation Institute of Health Engineering
UNSW research institute, co-directed by Nigel Lovell
Seeing is believing.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the platform, the alert logic, and the evidence behind it.