About Meeco

“Our vision is to create a place for everyone on the planet to get equity and value in exchange for what they share.

In order to achieve our vision we understand the importance of building a place where people feel safe and confident that their data is used responsibly, and they have choice and control.”

We have created the tools for trusted data custodians to deliver this customer-controlled place. Get in touch to discuss how you can build it.

What we do

A pioneer of data privacy and digital identity, we build enterprise tools that data custodians deploy to enable their customers to access, control and securely exchange personal data.

Our services underpin award winning applications that allow people to live a seamless digital life, benefiting from convenience, without compromising on privacy or security. Our platform of integrated tools is built on open standards and is made by developers for developers.

With offices in Belgium, the UK and Australia, our mission is to create ways for everyone on the planet to get equity and value in exchange for the data they share. We partner with financial institutions, telecommunications providers and government bodies to deliver on this mission.

Technology partners

Technology we work with, leverage and appreciate

Standards and working groups

Standards exist to solve problems bigger than ourselves and are a constant conversation to be had.

Community and memberships

Meeco is part of several like minded communities with similar goals.

“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together”.

Meeco Board of Directors

Katryna Dow
Katryna Dow
Founder & CEO
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Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco. She has been pioneering personal data rights since 2002, when she envisioned a time when personal sovereignty, identity and contextual privacy would be as important as being connected. Now distributed ledger, personal clouds, mobile technology, AI, Internet-of-Things and regulation such as the GDPR and Open Banking have converged to make Meeco both possible and necessary.

In 2011, she co-founded a think tank and incubator to explore commercialisation and business models across the emerging personal information sector. In early 2012, she wrote the Meeco Manifesto, and confident in strategy development and business model she founded Meeco in August of the same year. Katryna initially self-funded Meeco, before raising seed capital in January 2014, enabling Meeco to launch its first public platform in July 2014.

Katryna speaks globally on privacy and data innovation and currently serves on two IEEE standards working groups; Co-Chair for the Personal Data and Privacy Committee, part of the Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems, and Chair for the new P7006 - Standard for Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent.

She is the co-author of the blockchain identity paper ‘Immutable Me’ and co-author/co-architect of Meeco’s distributed ledger solution and, most recently, the White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data.

Prior to Meeco she founded and operated a strategy consulting practice. As a consultant, Katryna has extensive global experience in strategy to execution roles in start-ups to major corporate change and implementation and projects. Katryna has held leadership positions and delivered projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, United States and India. Her industry sector experience includes information technology, financial services, health services and human resources.

Katryna currently splits her time between Australia and Europe, where Meeco has offices and development teams.

Katryna Dow
Katryna Dow
Founder & CEO
Greg Embleton
Greg Embleton
Chairman
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Greg Embleton is the Chairman of Meeco Planet Pty Ltd. Formally the CEO of Secure Value Exchange (SVX) Group, a major Meeco shareholder, which merged with Meeco in 2019.

Greg is a senior executive with over 35 years’ global technology and executive experience. He has held the role of CIO for a number of large Australian domestic and international corporations where he has been instrumental in leading substantial growth and transformational change programs. Some of the key companies and roles include held by Greg include:

  • Global General Manager and CIO, Amcor
  • CIO, RJR Nabisco (Australia)
  • CIO, Sensis
  • Executive Director & CIO, Australian Red Cross Blood Service
  • Vice President, Novell (Australia Pacific)
  • CEO, Byte

Greg has a track record of consistently delivering growth in both customer and shareholder value. Through his drive and direction, the companies under his control have received industry accolades and a number have been the subject of successful acquisition. His experience, knowledge and pragmatic approach is reflected in the respect he has earned across business and technology sectors in Australia.

Greg is a proven transformational leader who believes unreservedly in the importance of data security, privacy and data innovation. As Chairman, he brings this commitment and his extensive knowledge and experience to help Meeco realise its full potential.

Greg has tertiary qualifications in Information Technology and Accounting and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.  

In addition to being the Chairman of the Meeco Board, he is also the Chairman of Zedmed, and an Advisory Board Member for Davidsons Recruitment and Byte.

Greg Embleton
Greg Embleton
Chairman
Marc Peskett
Marc Peskett
Finance Director
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Marc Peskett is the Finance Director of Meeco, and actively involved in the growth and scaling of the business.

Marc has over thirty years’ experience in accounting and management consulting, holding senior positions with Arthur Andersen and William Buck & Company before formally establishing the MPR Group in 1997. MPR Group (now Prime Accounting and Business Advisory) is a leading accounting firm, specialising in services to meet the special needs of innovative and fast-growing entrepreneurial businesses.

Since selling the MPR Group 2018, Marc is now an independent consultant, director and board advisor. He currently sits on the board and advises a number of FinTech companies, local and international biotech’s, a digital publishing company as well several not for profits. Marc is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia.

Marc specialises in venture planning, business and investment ready services, grants, funding and R&D tax concession services, financial analysis and modelling, and business structuring. His financial expertise and business advice has led to Marc being invited by clients to join their advisory boards adopting an active role in decision making and monitoring progress towards the achievement of long-term growth and profit objectives.

Marc’s accomplishments include:

  • Venture planning and advice by assisting clients establish the long-term strategic vision for their business and facilitating the implementation of value added services towards the realisation of business goals
  • Raising capital to support early stage business development, business expansion, new product development and the commercialisation of business initiatives
  • Establishing accounting, taxation and financial processes to meet statutory requirements and support performance evaluation
  • Providing financial analysis and the provision of strategic advice on new business ventures.
Marc Peskett
Marc Peskett
Finance Director
Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell
Director
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PeterCampbell has had extensive involvement in higher education since 1970, having held senior positions at major universities in Melbourne.

His involvement with the marketing of courses and recruitment of international students commenced in 1986 with the first Austrade Mission to South East Asia.

Peter was appointed as the inaugural director of the Monash International Office in1987 and subsequently initiated the Monash University Foundation Year in collaboration with Taylor’s College.

Following rapid growth in enrolments at Monash, he was appointed Director of International Programs at LaTrobe University in 1993. In October 1996, Peter left LaTrobe to establish MIBT (Melbourne Institute of Business Technology) on the Deakin University Toorak campus. Peter has also been involved in the development of the HIBT and LIBT colleges in the UK.

After MBIT was acquired by Navitas Ltd, Peter served as a Director of Navitas from September 2004 to November 2012. Navitas, a listed a public company on the ASX from 2004 until its privatisation in 2019, is a leading global education provider that offers an extensive range of educational services for students and professionals including university programs, English language training and settlement services, creative media education, workforce education and student recruitment.

Peter then became Chairman and a major shareholder in SVX Group Pty Ltd, a FinTech start up company that recently merged its business and assets into Meeco.

Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell
Director

The Team

Katryna Dow
Katryna Dow
Founder & CEO
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Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco. She has been pioneering personal data rights since 2002, when she envisioned a time when personal sovereignty, identity and contextual privacy would be as important as being connected. Now distributed ledger, personal clouds, mobile technology, AI, Internet-of-Things and regulation such as the GDPR and Open Banking have converged to make Meeco both possible and necessary.

In 2011, she co-founded a think tank and incubator to explore commercialisation and business models across the emerging personal information sector. In early 2012, she wrote the Meeco Manifesto, and confident in strategy development and business model she founded Meeco in August of the same year. Katryna initially self-funded Meeco, before raising seed capital in January 2014, enabling Meeco to launch its first public platform in July 2014.

Katryna speaks globally on privacy and data innovation and currently serves on two IEEE standards working groups; Co-Chair for the Personal Data and Privacy Committee, part of the Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems, and Chair for the new P7006 - Standard for Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent.

She is the co-author of the blockchain identity paper ‘Immutable Me’ and co-author/co-architect of Meeco’s distributed ledger solution and, most recently, the White Paper on Zero Knowledge Proofs for Access, Control, Delegation and Consent of Identity and Personal Data.

Prior to Meeco she founded and operated a strategy consulting practice. As a consultant, Katryna has extensive global experience in strategy to execution roles in start-ups to major corporate change and implementation and projects. Katryna has held leadership positions and delivered projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, United States and India. Her industry sector experience includes information technology, financial services, health services and human resources.

Katryna currently splits her time between Australia and Europe, where Meeco has offices and development teams.

Katryna Dow
Katryna Dow
Founder & CEO
Greg Embleton
Greg Embleton
Chairman
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Greg Embleton is the Chairman of Meeco Planet Pty Ltd. Formally the CEO of Secure Value Exchange (SVX) Group, a major Meeco shareholder, which merged with Meeco in 2019.

Greg is a senior executive with over 35 years’ global technology and executive experience. He has held the role of CIO for a number of large Australian domestic and international corporations where he has been instrumental in leading substantial growth and transformational change programs. Some of the key companies and roles include held by Greg include:

  • Global General Manager and CIO, Amcor
  • CIO, RJR Nabisco (Australia)
  • CIO, Sensis
  • Executive Director & CIO, Australian Red Cross Blood Service
  • Vice President, Novell (Australia Pacific)
  • CEO, Byte

Greg has a track record of consistently delivering growth in both customer and shareholder value. Through his drive and direction, the companies under his control have received industry accolades and a number have been the subject of successful acquisition. His experience, knowledge and pragmatic approach is reflected in the respect he has earned across business and technology sectors in Australia.

Greg is a proven transformational leader who believes unreservedly in the importance of data security, privacy and data innovation. As Chairman, he brings this commitment and his extensive knowledge and experience to help Meeco realise its full potential.

Greg has tertiary qualifications in Information Technology and Accounting and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.  

In addition to being the Chairman of the Meeco Board, he is also the Chairman of Zedmed, and an Advisory Board Member for Davidsons Recruitment and Byte.

Greg Embleton
Greg Embleton
Chairman
Marc Peskett
Marc Peskett
Finance Director
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Marc Peskett is the Finance Director of Meeco, and actively involved in the growth and scaling of the business.

Marc has over thirty years’ experience in accounting and management consulting, holding senior positions with Arthur Andersen and William Buck & Company before formally establishing the MPR Group in 1997. MPR Group (now Prime Accounting and Business Advisory) is a leading accounting firm, specialising in services to meet the special needs of innovative and fast-growing entrepreneurial businesses.

Since selling the MPR Group 2018, Marc is now an independent consultant, director and board advisor. He currently sits on the board and advises a number of FinTech companies, local and international biotech’s, a digital publishing company as well several not for profits. Marc is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia.

Marc specialises in venture planning, business and investment ready services, grants, funding and R&D tax concession services, financial analysis and modelling, and business structuring. His financial expertise and business advice has led to Marc being invited by clients to join their advisory boards adopting an active role in decision making and monitoring progress towards the achievement of long-term growth and profit objectives.

Marc’s accomplishments include:

  • Venture planning and advice by assisting clients establish the long-term strategic vision for their business and facilitating the implementation of value added services towards the realisation of business goals
  • Raising capital to support early stage business development, business expansion, new product development and the commercialisation of business initiatives
  • Establishing accounting, taxation and financial processes to meet statutory requirements and support performance evaluation
  • Providing financial analysis and the provision of strategic advice on new business ventures.
Marc Peskett
Marc Peskett
Finance Director
Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell
Director
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PeterCampbell has had extensive involvement in higher education since 1970, having held senior positions at major universities in Melbourne.

His involvement with the marketing of courses and recruitment of international students commenced in 1986 with the first Austrade Mission to South East Asia.

Peter was appointed as the inaugural director of the Monash International Office in1987 and subsequently initiated the Monash University Foundation Year in collaboration with Taylor’s College.

Following rapid growth in enrolments at Monash, he was appointed Director of International Programs at LaTrobe University in 1993. In October 1996, Peter left LaTrobe to establish MIBT (Melbourne Institute of Business Technology) on the Deakin University Toorak campus. Peter has also been involved in the development of the HIBT and LIBT colleges in the UK.

After MBIT was acquired by Navitas Ltd, Peter served as a Director of Navitas from September 2004 to November 2012. Navitas, a listed a public company on the ASX from 2004 until its privatisation in 2019, is a leading global education provider that offers an extensive range of educational services for students and professionals including university programs, English language training and settlement services, creative media education, workforce education and student recruitment.

Peter then became Chairman and a major shareholder in SVX Group Pty Ltd, a FinTech start up company that recently merged its business and assets into Meeco.

Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell
Director
Victoria Richardson
Victoria Richardson
Chief Operating Officer
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Victoria Richardson is the Chief Operating Officer at Meeco. She is responsible for helping Meeco to scale by driving investment in people, technology and processes.


Victoria has been working with payment and identity technologies for over 20 years with experience in business development, product marketing and consulting. She has advised a range of companies from start ups to major banks, telcos and government bodies on the business implications of technology change.


Most recently as the Chief Strategy Officer for Australia's self regulatory body for payments, Victoria drove the industry's focus on digital identity and data. In 2017, prior to the advent of the Consumer Data Right (Australia's economy wide version of open banking) Victoria led one of the banking industry's first data hackathons, which aimed to improve the lives of Australian's through the provision of services enabled by payments data. In 2019 she drafted the industry's Digital Identity Action Plan and led the development of the TrustID Framework, to support the delivery of the Plan. Based on open standards and aligned with CDR, TrustID is an interoperability domain, designed to enable competition and choice between multiple service providers.


Victoria enjoys complex problem solving and driving consensus where there are disparate views; she knows that strong team work is at the heart of the best decisions.

Victoria Richardson
Victoria Richardson
Chief Operating Officer
Jan Vereecken
Jan Vereecken
Chief Product Officer
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Jan Vereecken is the Chief Product Officer at Meeco; a personal data & distributed ledger platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust.

In 2017, Jan co-founded Juru; a Belgium based start-up developing an identity platform using blockchain technology. The focus was to improve the administrative and privacy aspects of modern digital life, through reducing the friction of onboarding to new products and services.

In his role as Juru co-founder and technical leader, Jan defined the architecture for several projects at Digipolis. Projects involved GDPR management, a ‘Business Rules Engine’ product, that enabled Antwerp City to assign access and manage rights to (self) managed teams via their platform ecosystem of city services and a new Identity Provider solution, able to operate in a federated landscape, with a self-sovereign identity component.

Jan is an experienced IT professional with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) domain expertise. His focus has been on innovation within enterprise teams, leveraging his start-up and entrepreneurial experience in leading teams. Specifically, he was retained to develop solutions to manage costs and increase operational efficiency.

Prior to Meeco and Juru, Jan was involved in several other start-ups, responsible for the architecture design together with the development of software services. Throughout Jan’s IT career he has been involved in ventures where he was responsible for determining the underlying technology decisions that would enable performance at scale.

It is this expertise that he brings to his role at Meeco; directing the development of products, application of patents and integration with SVX that form the Meeco API platform.

Jan is actively involved in applying the Standards from various working groups including verified claims, consent management and identity. Together with active participation in the blockchain community.

Jan Vereecken
Jan Vereecken
Chief Product Officer
Neil Campbell
Neil Campbell
Head of Security & Compliance
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Neil has more than 30 years experience delivering business value through Information Technology across a broad range of industries, and he is still passionate about ensuring customers get what they need. He has worked in a diverse range of organisations ranging from major enterprises to small start-ups, and covering a wide range of industries including Media, Publishing, Digital, Telecommunications, Health Services, Pharmaceuticals, Gambling and Financial Services. This diversity of industry type and scale of operations has helped Neil hone a set of skills that enable him to adapt to the needs of any situation.

As Head of Security & Compliance for Meeco, Neil is responsible for ensuring that Meeco meets its customer's and stakeholder's expectations in the areas of Privacy, Cyber-security, GDPR and Regulatory Compliance.

Prior to Meeco, Neil has successfully driven large scale programs of work for complex stakeholder groups, with world-first digital solutions and mission critical application deployments to his credit. Most recently Neil has been responsible for bringing product to market for a start-up organisation in the Financial Services sector.

Neil Campbell
Neil Campbell
Head of Security & Compliance
Derek Munneke
Derek Munneke
Head of Cloud and Infrastructure
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Expertise: Enterprise integration, open standards, mobile computing platforms, patents in presence based network entities

Derek is passionate about how technology can change the world for a better future. He has developed and implemented solutions across Australia and around the globe. From developer to chief technology officer, to investor and chief executive officer, Derek has a broad view of technology past, present and future.

As the Head of Engineering since Meeco’s inception, Derek provides architectural and technical leadership for the Meeco platform ensuring the technology underpinning Meeco is not only consistent with the organization’s goals and objectives but also adapting and scaling to the changing needs of the emerging global personal data marketplace. He has been instrumental in building and maturing all software and API development of the Meeco platform and of the Meeco Labs testing and learning environment. With vast experience in all aspects of the software lifecycle across industries such as media, telecommunications, finance and government, Derek brings a passion and dedication to developing innovative software that scales.

Derek has driven privacy and data consent projects for Meeco, including with two global telecommunications companies, two Australian telecommunications and media companies, two multinational financial services corporation, an Australian postal company and a European telecommunications company.

Prior to Meeco, Derek's experience included responsibility for the successful delivery of Telstra's Project Chameleon, a user personalized mobile portal; Eccosphere, a social utility for mobile devices; Australian Marine Catalogue, a harmonization of marine spatial data infrastructure; among others.

Derek led the Meeco team to win best project for the August 2017 Australian Payments Council Sydney Hackathon for the implementation of a loyalty concept on top of the Open Bank Project APIs.

Derek Munneke
Derek Munneke
Head of Cloud and Infrastructure
Yuri Leikind
Yuri Leikind
Full Stack Developer
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Expertise: Erlang, Elixir, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, React, Postgresql, AWS, Linux server administration

Yuri is an experienced software development generalist with a extensive track record of projects and technologies used.

Yuri started his career in 1999 working as a Computational Linguist. He worked in areas such as developing a formal grammar for English, a Part-Of-Speech tagset and a tagger for German, resolution of anaphoric relations in English patents, and focus resolution in questions in a Natural Language interface for a search engine.

Having written quite a number research prototypes, Yuri got fascinated by more industrial software development and in 2002 he quit the domain of Computational Linguistics and began his career as a software developer.

Throughout his career Yuri used a number of technologies such as Perl, PHP, Java, Ruby, Javascript, and AWS working on web applications and web services for various small and medium size businesses in Belgium, and mobile application backends.

Yuri developed and maintained an open-source Ruby On Rails plugin which was downloaded more than 267,000 times from the Rubygems package repository.

Pursuing his interest in distributed and concurrent programming Yuri co-founded an Elixir meetup group in Brussels in 2014.

His current software stack is the Erlang platform with which he seeks to tame software complexity with Event Sourcing, Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) patterns, and test-driven development.

Yuri Leikind
Yuri Leikind
Full Stack Developer
Linas Išganaitis
Linas Išganaitis
Full Stack Developer
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Expertise: Ruby, Elixir, PostgreSQL, Javascript, React, Redux, AWS

Linas is an ambitious information technology enthusiast with a solid experience in software development.

Linas started as a HTML5 game developer Linas and gained substantial knowledge in Javascript and UI development.

He was a member of a team which received investments from Microsoft and Nokia and won the AppCampus Grant 2014 for a HTML5 based strategy game.

During the following years of his career, Linas worked on a number of projects. He gained a range of technical skills developing, deploying and maintaining mobile application backends, implementing responsive designs and integrating API’s.

Linas is enthusiastic about clean and quality code and he follows the best practices of test and behaviour driven development.

Focusing mainly on web development, Linas is also keen on exploring and learning about the latest trends in other technologies.

Linas Išganaitis
Linas Išganaitis
Full Stack Developer
Vijay Shiyani
Vijay Shiyani
Full Stack Developer
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Expertise: Java (Spring), C# (.NET),  DevOps , CI/CD – JENKINS, AWS,  JavaScript, TypeScript, AngularJS, Angular2+, JQuery, Ionic 2+, RDBMS, NOSQL

Vijay is a passionate full-stack senior developer with strong technical experience.

He has a passion to get things done, and also comfortable delivering across strategy and tactical execution with the ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team.

He has been involved closely with SVX to conceive, design, build, test and deploy the full-stack solutions. Prior to working with SVX, he helped develop a full-stack solution to small companies and enterprises.

Vijay Shiyani
Vijay Shiyani
Full Stack Developer
Maria Rodrigues
Maria Rodrigues
Multimedia Specialist
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Maria has international experience in education, design and startups. As a Meeco maker of many years, she has been involved in the publication of whitepapers on personal data, open banking and zero knowledge proofs. Among other things, Maria leads communications and keeps things “meecofied” in look and feel and the grammar triple checked.

She is interested in anything privacy friendly, gardening and PC building.

Maria Rodrigues
Maria Rodrigues
Multimedia Specialist
Yolanda López
Yolanda López
Product Manager
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Yolanda is a Product Manager at Meeco with a strong focus on user research and Human Centred Design principles. At the centre of her design philosophy is a thorough understanding of data collection and user interactions and how she can bring them together to create thoughtful design solutions. She believes that a holistic approach to designing processes is key to delivering unique and powerful memories for people. By understanding a user or, group of users (their needs and the way they view their surroundings), allows her to deliver tailored designs extending across a vast range of disciplines.

Yolanda brings over ten years of design experience to Meeco, having previously worked in the interior design, architecture and visualisation professions.

Currently undertaking her Master of Education, specialising in Learning Design, Yolanda is able to develop her social-science research methodologies and the psychological development of learners to aid her UX practice.

Yolanda López
Yolanda López
Product Manager
Himani Patel
Himani Patel
QA and Security Lead
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Perceptive Entry Level Software Tester applying knowledge of quality assurance testing to ensure the quality and operation of software applications. Validate, Verify, communicate, and resolve Software issues through detailed documentation to maximize the return of IT initiatives. Perform system, unit, functionality, and performance testing on various web and mobile-based applications. Prime focused on adapting quality issues and committed to ensuring the quality of the product reach up to customer satisfaction. Himani has completed her Master of Information Technology degree with a major in System security and Anti-Hacking.

Himani's experience in Software testing and passion for cybersecurity makes her build her career in the field of penetration testing. Prior to joining Meeco, Himani worked as a Software Tester with an Australian local company where she's learned about various methods of manual and automated software testing.

When Himani's not at work, you’ll find her capturing live moments with her Camera and Sketchbook.

Himani Patel
Himani Patel
QA and Security Lead
Monique Dunlop
Monique Dunlop
Finance Manager
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Monique joined Meeco after having worked in an advisory capacity in her role as a director at NPR Group Accounts & Advisors.

Following a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) Accounting and Finance from Deakin University, Monique then went on to complete her Graduate Diploma of Charted Accounting through the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. She has over a decade of Finance, Tax, Accounting and Advisory experience, having worked extensively with start-ups, assisting them with Marketing Exports and RnD Grants.

Monique manages finance across Meeco's Australian, UK and Belgian registered companies.

Monique Dunlop
Monique Dunlop
Finance Manager
Dr Vivienne Monk
Dr Vivienne Monk
Clinical Research and Healthcare Data Advisor
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Vivienne has lived and worked in Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, China and has been based in the United Kingdom for the past 20 years.

She has a professional background in psychology and occupational health, and has worked in clinical research for over 15 years and clinical trials for the past 5 years.

Vivienne has worked in a range of different occupational settings from clinical practice, the building and construction industry, manufacturing and healthcare including two years as a Health Systems Consultant for Procter & Gamble for 2 years in the Asia Pacific Region.

Her qualifications include a Masters in Occupational Health and Safety (University of Sydney), an MBA from Heriot-Watt (UK) and a PhD (University of London).

Working in clinical trials means that Vivienne is well aware of the importance of individual consent to use clinical and healthcare information and the regulations around the use of personal data.

In her research management role she has worked with a range of stakeholders in the healthcare industry including academic, public sector and commercial organisations to develop data capture, secure management systems and bespoke databases for collecting and managing research data.  Some of these trials have included the use and development of apps to capture medical and health related information.

In her current role in clinical research operations Vivienne is part of the Barts COVID Delivery and Operational Group setting up Covid-19 research across the Barts Trust including the new Nightingale Hospital.
In clinical trials participants have to consent for their data to be used, for what purpose and for how long it can be kept.

There is a balance between privacy for the individual’s data and allowing access to researchers who can use it to answer important research questions and ultimately improve health outcomes for everyone.

Vivienne’s research approach is based on best practice for data privacy and consistent with Meeco’s philosophy to create mutual value and ensure explicit and informed consent is always required by when sharing personal data.

Dr Vivienne Monk
Dr Vivienne Monk
Clinical Research and Healthcare Data Advisor
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Accessibility statemement

Meeco is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.  

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

Meeco is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Meeco.

Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Meeco via info@meeco.me

We try to respond to feedback within 2 business days.

Date: This statement was created on 12 January 2023