Empowering Humanity

with Intelligent Brain

Health Technologies

Our background

NeuroFlex® is the result of two family’s similar visions to empower humanity with digital health technology for better health and wellbeing outcomes. The Galiana and Thynne families are the founders of the NeuroFlex® group of companies which is a merger between Saccade Analytics Inc. (SAI) and Digital Health Organization Ltd (DHO).

The Galiana family founding of SAI began over 30 years ago when the seed of its Intellectual Property was conceived with Dr Mimi Galiana, whose research at McGill University led the field of eye and head movement analysis. She came to understand that although her work had tremendous potential, much more was needed before it would help people.

With this goal, she founded Saccade Analytics in 2016 and recruited her daughter Isabel Galiana to assist in building the business. Isabel is now the Managing Director and Mimi is the Chief Scientific & Medical Officer of the NeuroFlex® group of companies.

The origin of the DHO story started in 1992 when Dr Grenville Thynne, an internationally recognised Surgeon having trained at the Royal Marsden Hospital (UK) and Mayo Clinic (USA), as well as his birthplace Australia, and his wife Jan, an Australian Registered Nurse with a UK accredited nursing diploma, established Health Corporation of Australia (HCA).

The vision was to create a hospital company and assist in research and education in the health care sector. It was from this initial base that the group grew various businesses in the Healthcare, well being and eHealth sectors over the next decades until the present day. The Thynne family business DHO merged with the Galiana family SAI business to create the NeuroFlex® group of companies of which the sons Grenville and Nathan are Executive Directors.

Our values

At NeuroFlex®, we believe Empathy Empowers Excellence in Innovation! Our core values form our belief system and are a part of our DNA. They enable us to deliver the most advanced technologies and give people control over their brain health. Our values are meant to be lived daily. We, as a company and as individuals, commit to these values. Our value pillars include:

Empathy

To us, empathy means the ability to listen, consider others thoughts and feelings, and appreciate their perspective before passing any judgment or acting. It means to be caring, personable, approachable, and friendly. It means to have healthy conversations and learn together through success and failures without finger pointing.

This approach has allowed us to foster stronger relationships with one another, build an inclusive environment and create impactful connections with our stakeholders.

Empowerment

Through empowerment, we want to help everyone in our growing family contribute to the best of their ability and enhance their happiness quotient. Our employees have the autonomy to decide the course of their growth and pursue their passion projects. We value entrepreneurial behavior and promote this attitude. Our people have a voice and they know it!

Excellence

Our culture acts as an enabler for all of us. We set lofty targets and achieve them through diligence, careful planning, and mutual support. We strive for the highest quality standards; cultivate and nurture the habit of continuous learning and improvement. We seek to deliver the very best in every situation.

Innovation

We share creative ideas and novel approaches openly. We value feedback from clients & suppliers and learn from research partners & industry trends. At times, we pause to reflect on the current methods. We deliberate on the feedback from diverse sources. This approach has strengthened the culture of innovation at NeuroFlex®.

Meet the Board

Dr. Mimi Galiana

Chief Scientific Officer / Co-Founder

Professor Galiana received her PhD in 1981 and served for over 35 years as a professorial member of the department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University. She has published over 140 articles in top peer-reviewed journals and made significant breakthroughs on neuromuscular control, with a focus on binocular control with a moving head.

Dr. Mimi Galiana
Chief Scientific Officer /Co-Founder

Isabel Galiana

CEO / Co-Founder

Founder, CEO of Saccade Analytics with the mission to improve the standard of neurological care by translating advanced research into accessible tools. Isabel is an ex-professional volleyball player, university lecturer and technological innovation economist and climate policy expert by training.

Isabel Galiana
CEO / Co-Founder

Nathan Thynne

Executive Director Brand, Marketing & Sales

Nathan has over 25 years of experience in the hospital and health technology sector throughout Australasia. He obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland and then worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He then became Managing Director at Health Corporation of Australia, and a Director on Nova Health Ltd. He was a Co-founder and group Executive of the Healthe International group of companies.

Nathan Thynne
Executive Director

Grenville Thynne

Executive Director

As a lawyer and banking executive, Grenville has worked in several countries over the past 30 years, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, and the Middle East. He previously held senior positions at ING Bank and Macquarie Capital in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Raisings and Public Offerings. As a director, Grenville serves on boards of various businesses owned by the Thynne family in the Healthcare industry. In addition to a bachelor's degree in commerce/economics and law, he holds a graduate diploma in finance and investment. Grenville has been admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland in Australia.

Grenville Thynne
Executive Director

Scientific Advisory Board

We’re backed by a strong team of opinion leading doctors and researchers, who support our vision through their expertise.

Dr. Lance M. Optican

PhD Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Lance Optican is Senior Investigator of the Neural Modelling Section at the National Eye Institute of the NIH. Biomedical Engineer, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; worked with David A Robinson studying the cerebellar-dependent adaptive control of rapid eye movements (saccades). Since 1982, Dr Optican has been a Research Biomedical Engineer in the National Eye Institute (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA and in 1988 was appointed Chief of the Section of Neural Modelling within the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research.

Dr. Lance M. Optican
PhD Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Alain Ptito

PhD Clinical Psychology

Dr. Alain Ptito is Director of the Psychology Department at the MUHC and a recognized expert on traumatic brain injury. Director of the Department of Psychology of the MUHC, investigates the mechanisms involved in cerebral reorganization and plasticity in specific patient populations - hemispherectomy, callosotomy, Parkinson’s Disease, stroke and head injury.

Dr. Alain Ptito
PhD Clinical Psychology

Dr. Tamara Mijovic

MD CM FRCSC

Dr Mijovic is a researcher in the field of paediatric vestibular disorders as the head of the Montreal Children’s Paediatric Dizziness clinic. Assistant professor at the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at McGill University, she specializes in otology, neurotology, and skull base surgery.

Dr. Tamara Mijovic
MD CM FRCSC

Dr. Pierre-Paul Vidal

MD PhD

Director of the COGNAC-G (COGNition and ACtion Group) based at Hopital du Val de Grace (France) and the UFR Biomedicale des Saints Peres (Italie). He is also a lab director Centre d’etude de la sensorimotricite (CeSeM) at Universite Paris Descartes, and at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Dr Vidal has over 30 years’ experience in clinical neuroscience.

Dr. Pierre-Paul Vidal
MD PhD

Meet our team

To make sure that we always stay ahead in servicing our valuable clients, we’re supported by a world class team

Taniya Singh

Director of Operations

Taniya has over a decade of expertise in Go to Market Strategy and execution. She has leadership experience in creating super charged sales teams, cultivating strategic partnerships, executing brand strategies, maximizing collaboration between cross-functional teams, and creating integrated marketing campaigns that deliver impactful results. She has a passion for solving complex operational problems, mentoring people, improving internal processes, and driving cross-functional growth. Amongst other day-to-day operations and efficiency projects, she is responsible for orchestrating and implementing the North American growth strategy.

Taniya Singh
Director of Operations

Dr David Stevens

Head of Research

Dr David Stevens is a medical and research officer at NeuroFlex Inc., as well as an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University.

Dr Stevens’ specialised neurological research. His doctoral studies, undertaken at the University of Sydney, examined the effect of physiological stress of neurocognitive performance. His postdoctoral research, undertaken at Flinders University, examined the bidirectional relationship between sleep and neurology, with a particular focus on sleep and concussion, as well as sleep and neurodegeneration. Dr Stevens has been the recipient of several large research grants, with the studies still underway.

Dr David Stevens
Head of Research

Sean Tasker

Head of Education

Sean has 30 years experience in Educational Leadership and Management within Australian schools along with 14 years at elite level playing in SANFL and AFL competitions and 12 years in Media and Communications working for Triple M Adelaide.

Sean holds a Bachelor of Education and Master of Education in Physical Education and Exercise Physiology from Flinders University.

In 2018, whilst Director of Sport and Activities at Anglican Church Grammar School, Sean was appointed to the Rugby Review Group within the Great Public Schools’ (GPS) QLD. In conjunction with Rugby Australia the groups main focus was to investigate and identify ways to make ‘school boy’ rugby safer for all to play.

A SANFL Life member and an inaugural Adelaide Crows player, he previously coached Cricket, Volleyball, Track and Field, 1st XVIII schoolboys teams and U18 AFL at Club level.

Sean Tasker
Head of Education

Chris Fox

Head of Sales

Chris has qualifications in Finance and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance and Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. He has thirty years of experience in corporate finance and advisory specialising in health. Chris has led successful sales team for many years , is an experienced senior executive and held many governance positions including chair of one of the nations largest health/aged care not for profit organizations. A former coach in Australian Rules Football and with years of volunteer service to the youth and elderly , Chris is very passionate around the subject of brain health.

Chris Fox
Head of Sales