Meet Our Experts
Loffty was founded by social impact innovator, Marshall Couper, who is committed to reducing the world’s spiralling suicide rates by making comprehensive mental health insights highly accessible. An advisory team made up of physicians, research scientists, health economists and technology experts, backs the Loffty team.
CEO
Marshall started his career as a New Zealand trade diplomat and private banker in London. For the last 20 years he has worked in venture capital and early stage health technology businesses in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand. He has advised many of New Zealand’s top technology businesses on innovation, commercialisation and growth strategies while at Callaghan Innovation and through his own advisory firm New Zealand Business Partners. Marshall is a sports fanatic, who also enjoys coaching junior baseball and experiencing different cultures.
Head of Product
Nilesh has over 17 years’ experience in ensuring products meet (and exceed) customer needs. He has managed a wide variety of large software projects where he has owned the product development lifecycle and managed cross functional teams to deliver great user experiences. Nilesh has expertise in business and system analysis, requirements gathering, resource allocation, custom development, scope development and stakeholder communication. A great coffee lover, Nilesh is often found in various Melbourne cafes in pursuit of the perfect cup.
Suicide & Trauma Advisor
Professor Larkin, MD, MS, MA, MSPH, FACEP is a board-certified clinician with over 28 years of front-line ED experience. He is also a biostatistician and researcher focused on ethical, scalable, real-world healthcare solutions. He served as the inaugural Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the inaugural Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He has held previous appointments at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, and is currently affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. He is recognised globally as a leader in emergency medicine, substance abuse, mental health, trauma, suicide prevention, bioethics and public health. His recent research focus has been on behavioural causes and consequences of injury, trauma, and disasters. Prof Larkin is particularly interested in using health IT to develop digital health risk appraisals within new models of primary care, illness prevention, and wellness maintenance. He has served as a member of the Wellness Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and as an advisor to the DHHS on “Healthy People 2020” policy. Prof Larkin has also led burnout prevention and stress management workshops with the United Nations office in Vienna. Recent work includes studies on the mental health causes and consequences of trauma, rapidly-acting antidepressants, bio-informatics/health IT, interpersonal violence, and suicide prevention. He is a key resource on mental health for healthcare reformers and policymakers around the world, including, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; Veterans Health Administration, NIH/NIDA, CDC, AHRQ, NIAAA, NIMH, NHLBI and the World Health Organisation (WHO), where he has served as a consultant on priority matters such as trauma, and suicide prevention.
Primary Care Advisor
Dr Christopher Mulroney has over 40 years of experience in medicine and is the Medical Director of One Point Medical in Melbourne, Australia. He has a variety of interests in Medicine, including primary care, medical teaching, and medical R&D. His particular interests include psychiatry in primary care with a focus on adult ADHD and its co-morbidities. A graduate of the University of Western Australia, Dr Mulroney worked as a senior General Practitioner before founding the Medipoint Group of six primary care practices across metropolitan Perth. In 2003, he moved to Melbourne, Victoria and worked as a senior GP in Toorak and Prahran. In 2013, Dr Mulroney established OnePoint Medical, a Category A-rated primary practice with 6 doctors that prides itself in utilising the latest technology and the highest standards in diagnosis and management. Dr Mulroney currently continues to work full-time as a Primary Care Physician and as Medical Director of One Point Medical. During the early 2000’s Dr Mulroney was co-founder and co-developer of Global Mind Screen, a comprehensive mental health self-assessment screening tool. He has continued to be involved in the R&D of this tool into its current form as Loffty. Dr Mulroney is a passionate medical educator and serves as a Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at the Oceania University of Medicine, a position he was appointed to in 2023. He has been a medical educator in Australia and internationally, training registrars in family medicine. He also maintains an ongoing medical advisory role to Loffty Global.
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