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Team

Clinical governance and cultural governance, side by side — and a build team answerable to both.

Studio portrait of Erik Gulliksen, Co-Founder — Technical Director
Studio portrait of Levi Penno, Co-Founder — Strategic Lead
Studio portrait of Roy Tikao, Pou Ārahi — Cultural & Partnerships Director
Studio portrait of Dr Gill Penno, Clinical governance
Studio portrait of Dr Michelle Todd, Clinical governance

Erik leads everything technical at Systemaize Health — the architecture, the security, and the build itself. He carries the engineering standard the product is held to: secure by default, hosted onshore, and open to inspection by the clinicians who use it. He would rather ship something small and trustworthy than something big that isn't.

Levi holds the strategy, the partnerships and the story — the connective work of turning a good idea into something the health system can actually adopt. He's the one making sure every relationship is built properly, in the right order, for the long term. Ask him how it's going and you'll get the honest version, not the polished one.

Roy Tikao is our Pou Ārahi — Cultural & Partnerships Director — and he holds the cultural governance of everything this company builds. He is an iwi leader who knows exactly who waits longest, and that knowledge sits at the centre of what we choose to work on. He is named on our Equity & Te Tiriti commitment, holds our data sovereignty commitment jointly with our technical director, and is credited as cultural reviewer on the reo and cultural content we publish. He has the authority to hold us to all of it.

Gill is a New Zealand general practitioner whose decades in practice shaped what this company builds — she has spent a career writing referrals and watching what happens to them next. She leads the clinical evidence behind our work and holds the safety line: nothing reaches a patient or a pathway without clinical sign-off. This is her answer to every good referral she watched go missing.

Michelle is a practising GP who brings the clinic-floor reality into every product decision — what a referral actually looks like on a busy morning, and what a workable tool has to do. With Gill, she provides the clinical governance that reviews everything we make before it goes anywhere near a pathway. Her test is simple: would this genuinely help the next patient in the waiting room?