Our Team
At Apostele, our team is the heartbeat of what we do. Established by Nigel and Sze-Yuan during the challenges of COVID, we focus on delivering superior integrated telehealth services to healthcare providers. Our team and founders are devoted to transforming remote patient monitoring for better health outcomes.
David du Plessis is 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 is a Senior Staff Cardiologist and Director of the Coronary Care Unit based at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, with extensive clinical experience and expertise in the fields of coronary intervention and cardiac device (pacemakers and defibrillators) implantation. He obtained his Bachelor degree in 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 the 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 improve patient outcomes.
Scientia Professor Lovell is the 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 the 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.