At S3 Connected Health, improving lives is at the heart of everything we do

Jim O’Donoghue

President

Jim is the leader of S3 Connected Health. Jim has 27 years’ experience in creating innovative software solutions and products in the telecoms, consumer electronics and healthcare sectors.

Jim passionately believes that connected health will fundamentally change the way healthcare is delivered and experienced by patients and clinicians. Over the past 10 years Jim has assembled a world-class team that have delivered award winning solutions for our clients throughout Europe, North America and Australasia.

Jim is a regular speaker at industry conferences and has been centrally involved in a number of key industry initiatives including serving on the industry board for the UK “3 Million Lives programme” and on the industry steering board of ARCH, the Irish Applied Research Centre for Connected Health.

John O'Brien

CEO

John is currently Executive Chairman and CEO of S3 Connected Health, an active member of the Irish Software CEO Forum, Vice-Chair of Irish Medtech and a board member of Technology Ireland.

He began his career in the semiconductor industry and held various positions in technology, marketing and engineering before becoming CEO of S3 Group in 2001.

John has an engineering degree from the University of Limerick, an MBA from University College Dublin and has completed the Enterprise Ireland Leadership for Growth program at Stanford University.

Matt Norton

Director of Strategy & Client Solutions

Matt leads the Client Engagement and Marketing team at S3 Connected Health and has over 20 years' experience developing and launching transformative patient and consumer products internationally.

Brian Flatley, PhD

Business Strategy & Engagement Director

Brian leads the Business Development for the S3 Connected Health division in Europe, working with clients and partners to deliver our products and services to the market. He has spent the last number of years in commercial and academic R&D roles bringing innovation across the spectrum of healthcare delivery.

Brian has lead research, understanding and collaboration projects with multiple pharmaceutical companies and hospital systems across the US, Europe and APAC in digital health technology and looking at how it can impact healthcare delivery in various chronic and acute conditions.

During his PhD and subsequent post-doctoral research, he focused on the identification and development of biomarker panels and assays for improved clinical diagnostics. His peer-review research publications include disease areas such as prostate and penile cancer, rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis and antimalarial bio-compound analysis. During his research tenure, he was awarded numerous travel fellowships & awards to attend and present his work at both US and European conferences.

John Maughan

Head of Products

John heads up Product Management in S3 Connected Health where he spends his days understanding customer and market needs and distilling them into compelling product offerings.

John has over 20 years experience and has run successful product teams across a variety of industries. He has delivered complex enterprise solutions to customers like AT&T, Danone, JP Morgan, DHL, Vodafone and BSkyB amongst others. When the opportunity came to work in the healthcare industry he jumped at it because he predicts ‘win-win-win-win’ solutions emerging where patients, healthcare providers, payers and pharmaceutical companies all succeed in achieving better commercial and clinical outcomes through the application of new technologies.

Szymon Zysko

Head of Services Delivery and Operations

Szymon is responsible for delivering bespoke customer solutions. He has more than 10 years’ experience delivering innovative telehealth and telecare projects.

Szymon oversees operations and programme management, driving the technical direction of the business line, generating and managing intellectual property and representing S3 Connected Health in industry bodies globally. He leads a multidisciplinary, world-class team that have delivered award winning, connected-health solutions for our clients across the globe.

In May 2007 Szymon received a Key Contributor Award from Continua Alliance for his work on defining standards for Telehealth interoperability. Szymon holds an MSc. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland.

David Mulligan

Head of Consulting

With a background in electronic engineering and software development, David worked for many years with Philips in scientific hardware and software R&D, and with Microsoft in enterprise and consumer software and device development. In recent years his focus has moved towards consumer wellness, patient engagement and empowerment through mobile app and platform initiatives. David has a passion for developing creative and innovative solutions to large challenging problems.

Sinead Ni Mhurchadha, PhD

Senior Healthcare Consultant

Sinead is a chartered health psychologist and leads our behavioral science and health psychology work. She is passionate about supporting patients living with chronic illness and has significant experience building rapport with patients through qualitative interviews to elicit their lived experiences of chronic illness.

Since 2012 she has successfully led the psychological design and delivery of many global, regional and local patient-support programs and solutions across a broad range of conditions.

Sinead is a former research psychologist and university lecturer and completed a BA in psychology at University College Dublin, an MSc in health psychology at University College London and a PhD in psychology at Dublin City University.

Kevin Hanley, MD, MBA, BSEE

Senior Clinical Consultants

Dr. Hanley MD, MBA, BSEE provides clinical leadership for the latest innovations in healthcare delivery for chronic disease management in both the US and Europe. Having lead the design of improved healthcare delivery solutions, Dr. Hanley focuses on addressing gaps in care between patients, primary care physicians, specialists, payers, assisted living and healthcare providers. Dr. Hanley has worked with the leading clinical providers in Europe and the United States, and has over 15 years’ experience working with the leading healthcare, IT and telecommunication companies in the sector. Dr. Hanley holds a B.S. Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ, USA), MBA from the College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA, USA) and an M.D. from UCC (Bayamon, PR, USA).

Piotr Sokolowski

Head of Services Strategy

Piotr is responsible for shaping the services part of S3 Connected Health. He is heavily involved in market interactions and business development, especially for pharma. Piotr has 17 years’ experience in development and engineering management and has managed multiple programs, which have delivered award-winning products in the telecom and healthcare space.

His current focus is on how S3 Connected Health can help customers to turn their point healthcare solutions (like drugs or medical devices) into connected health systems that increase and demonstrate value at all stages.

Kathleen Ryan, PhD

Behavioural Scientist

Kathleen is one of our behavioural scientists. She works with our clients in life sciences to design and conduct research to better understand the needs, values, behaviors, and motivations of patients and health care professionals who use our solutions.

Her research produces evidence-based insights which feed into the design of user-centered health technologies that promote optimal health outcomes. She firmly believes that this mix of person-centered philosophy and evidence-based innovation can help solve key problems in healthcare.

With a background in academic health research, Kathleen is an award-winning researcher and science-communicator, has published a selection of peer-reviewed papers on digital and public health, attracted multiple research grants, and worked on several public health research projects across Europe and Australia.

Kathleen continues to lecture part-time in University College Cork on digital health and believes that continuing her academic research ensures that her work is rooted in the latest academic advances.

She holds a PhD in the area of digital health and person-centered design (UCC, Ireland), an MSc in Health Psychology (NUI Galway, Ireland), and a BA in Applied Psychology (UCC, Ireland).

James Kennedy, MD, ACA

Senior Healthcare Consultant

James is our senior healthcare consultant and works with our global life science partners to develop digital and connected health strategies. As a medical doctor, James is passionate about patient-centric care and the role of digital health in healthcare innovation. He has extensive experience across oncology, general internal medicine, health tech, EMRs and digital health strategy in the private and public sector.

Before completing his medical degree at the University of Limerick, James qualified as a chartered accountant with KPM Corporate Finance. 

James is also currently completing an inaugural masters in Digital Health Transformation.

Juliette Nolan

Senior Health Consultant

Juliette is our senior health consultant and works with our global life science partners to devise and develop connected health strategies. She has extensive experience in type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, NAFLD/NASH, general internal medicine, and population health strategy. Juliette is driven to develop innovative, person-centred care delivery strategies through collaborative partnerships