Popfossa

Our Team

Based in Perth, Western Australia, Popfossa was co-founded by Dr Marcus Tan and social web start-up Buzka in 2009 with the idea of connecting the global health care community like never before. Popfossa benefits from the fusion of our founders' experiences spanning the health care and technology industries.

Popfossa takes it's corporate social responsibility very seriously and our team is committed to donating at least 10% of net profits to worthy philanthropic causes.

Dr Marcus Tan — Managing Director

Marcus is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. His key areas of commercial expertise and interest include strategic planning and management, marketing and business development, facilitation and training, corporate advisory and governance, capital raising and start-ups.

Marcus is a well regarded clinician qualified in general practice and with a special interest in skin cancer and minor procedures. He has previously served as Medical Director in Western Australia for Australia's leading and largest skin cancer clinic group. Concurrently, he was a director on the board of GP Coastal Division of General Practice for six years and Chairman for three terms, leading a successful merger in 2007 to form the Perth Primary Care Network (PPCN) which is now recognised as the largest Division of General Practice in Western Australia and one of the leading Divisions in Australia. Marcus also co-founded Equis Consulting Group, a boutique management consultancy that creates ethical and quality business solutions to health care industry challenges.

Marcus has a wide network of contacts within the Australian health community and has experience with large and small private, public, government and not-for-profit sectors. He is also a strong believer in giving back and is a co-founder and director of Meridian Global Foundation, a professional philanthropic group and charitable trust.

Marcus is married with two young sons. As a keen traveler, he has set foot on every continent in the world including Antarctica. His other pastimes include snow skiing, reading, golf and badminton.

Dr Mike Cadogan — Chief Information Officer

Mike wears many hats but not because he has no hair. Mike is an emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force rugby team. He is passionate about rugby, medical education and health informatics.

Recognising the need for enhanced medical information distribution in Australia both at a structural and an educational level, he created an interactive intranet learning platform in 2006 to facilitate e-learning using high quality multimedia content. Mike also founded the development of HealthEngine, Australia's most comprehensive search engine to find doctors.

Mike is a prolific writer and editor of Life In The Fast Lane amongst his many blogs and medical texts. He patrols the information superhighway and maintains the highest standard of content quality and integrity across the Popfossa family of websites. Mike is married with three children in Perth.

Jinnan Cai — Chief Strategy Officer

As a young internet entrepreneur, Jinnan has accumulated a wealth of experience beyond his years. He is a self-taught developer who studied design and advertising before being lured into the business of the web. At the age of 19, he co-founded Buzka, a Silicon Valley award winning technology start-up and BRW Top 100 Australian Web App which shares its secret sauce with Popfossa.

Jinnan leads product strategy, design and development across Popfossa's suite of websites and applications. His cross-disciplinary skills make him as fearless in the boardroom as the server room. He loves rolling up his sleeves with talented people to make big ideas happen and creating innovative strategies and solutions that push the boundaries. He secretly enjoys nudging, pushing and pulling the Popfossa team to accomplish the impossible, which can sometimes produce mild symptoms of discomfort.

Jinnan is passionate about innovations that empower individuals and communities to achieve a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. He has an insatiable appetite for good food and world-changing ideas, while maintaining a healthy interest in economics, sustainability and Chinese medicine.

Gerard Caulfield — Chief Technology Officer

Gerry is a talented and experienced software engineer who fine tunes and develops the technologies under the hood of Popfossa. He is qualified in Software Development from the Institute of Technology, Perth and possesses a broad knowledge of computing technology including system development, database design, Linux system administration and over twenty programming and scripting languages.

Gerry is logical and meticulous in his approach to programming with a special interest in security and efficiency of systems. Previously, Gerry was instrumental in developing infrastructure, technology and content management platforms at Buzka.

Gerry is a strong believer in the importance of freedom for animals (including humans) to do as they wish as long as it does not bring harm to others. He enjoys learning everything, video games and philosophy.

Amy Grech — Customer Support Manager

Originally from Sydney, Australia. Amy started her career in the mid 90's as a Dental Nurse before moving into Administrative roles. Over the last twelve years she has held administrative positions for large private and public organisations in the Medical Imaging industry.

Amy brings to the Popfossa team discipline and order which some of the guys are sorely lacking.

She also loves talking to people and helping them solve problems which makes her ideal to head our customer support team.

Amy enjoys travelling and has a passion for black and white photography.