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Team

Clinicians building for clinicians.

Aescia is built by a small team that writes its own pathways and ships its own code. Two products, one engine, one team.

Founders

James Kurrle

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

A hospital doctor with critical care experience, who trained and practised across rural New South Wales (Wagga Wagga) and Sydney. Authors the clinical pathway engine and leads company strategy.

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Dr Vasken Dermardiros

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

PhD from Concordia University in building-energy machine learning. Leads security, hosting, artificial intelligence inference, electronic medical record integration and the pathway authoring infrastructure that underpins both products.

Company officers

Statutory roles.

Shannon Kurrle

Resident Director, Aescia Pty Ltd

Holds the statutory Resident Director role required by the Australian Corporations Act for Aescia Pty Ltd. Not an operational position.

Trial leadership

SAFE-Discharge at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Aescia for Hospitals has been in a live trial at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital since June 2026, with good early results.

Dr Kei Woldendorp

Principal Investigator of the SAFE-Discharge trial at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, sponsored by Sydney Local Health District

BMed MBBS MPhil. Cardiothoracic researcher, The Baird Institute and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Advisory

Advisers.

Advisers are named as each joins and consents.

For enquiries about advisory roles, use the contact page.

Company maturity

Funding, support, and the question of two years from now.

Early-stage buyers underwrite company risk. Below: how Aescia is funded, who answers when something is wrong, and who works on the company.

Funding posture
Funded to date through founder capital, with grant applications in progress, at a deliberately low burn rate. Investor introductions are welcome at contact@aesciahealth.com.
External programmes
Aescia is a portfolio company at District 3, Concordia University's innovation hub for bio, health, and high-tech startups (joined September 2025). Aescia is an industry member of the Medical Technology Association of Australia through its MedTech Compass programme, and is selected for the CHEO Research Institute Product-Market-Fit programme (paediatric respiratory track), which runs from April 2026. These are external diligence and customer-development signals, not capital; they sit alongside the funding posture above rather than substituting for it.
Support model
During the design-partner phase, the named implementation contact is James Kurrle, founder and Chief Executive Officer, rather than a support queue. A named operational counterpart is committed in writing at contract execution, and the named contact in the contract stays the same for the duration of the design-partner term.
Team depth
Two people work on Aescia full time, with no other staff or contractors.
Will Aescia exist in 24 months
Runway is multi-year at the current burn. The team is small and the spend is matched to it; both founders are committed to the company and to the SAFE-Discharge trial and the design-partner programme as the next milestones. Independent of the company question, the design-partner contract structure includes data portability terms and a destruction-of-records schedule on exit, so a customer recovers their data in a usable format inside 30 days regardless of what happens to Aescia.

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