When Yellow Wiggle Greg Page suffered a cardiac arrest recently, he was 3-times lucky:
1. There was an AED available
2. The AED was working
3. Someone nearby knew how to use the AED
smartaed can't guarantee there will be someone nearby to use your AED, but we can make it more likely that you'll be able to locate an AED in good working order when it's needed.

About.

smartaed is a collective effort of survivors, their friends & loved ones, and the experts who made the difference, to understand, develop and apply 21st century technology to maximise the survivability of sudden cardiac arrest in NSW, Australia, and around the world. 

Established in 2017

Over the last five years, Public Access Automated External Defibrillators (PADs) have been increasingly recognised as a key part of the health infrastructure where communities seek to be "HeartSafe", to increase their resilience to sudden cardiac arrest. smartaed's technology is designed to enhance the community's capacity to respond positively to sudden cardiac arrest events.

Our Goal

PADs, and their correct use in conjunction with CPR, are a demonstrably critical difference between surviving sudden cardiac arrest and becoming another tragic statistic - survival rates increase from 10% to 65% when there is early recognition and alerting of emergency services, application of CPR and use of a defibrillator.

​Our Goal is to ensure that AEDs are accessible and operable when they are needed.

Our Team

Dr David Lamond
Managing  Director

A 40 year career in community service,  and vocational & higher education is the basis for David's commitment to, and expertise in, promoting community-based solutions to health problems in the community.
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David is an entrepreneurial management researcher, educator and leader, consulting internationally on corporate strategy, human resource management and executive development.  Through his company, Corporate Consigliere,  he works with individual and corporate clients to achieve comprehensive solutions to the business challenges they face.

Dr Stan Glaser
Marketing Partner

Prior to entering the university sector, Stan had wide experience with Anderson Analysis, Sydney (now incorporated with AC Nielsen), George Patterson (Sydney), Beecham Group (London) and William Schlackman (London), working extensively in Europe and Asia. The academic and consulting juggle led to a return to the commercial world. Strategic advice across a broad spectrum of business functions (marketing, organisation design, negotiation, value chain etc) is his forte.

Stan's consulting activities with Glaser Consulting include strategic consulting, formulation of effective market research, business to business negotiation, and industrial psychology.

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Geoff Riddell
Chief Executive Officer

Based in Cessnock, Geoff's contribution to the vision and operations of smartaed is underpinned by four decades of service to commercial and community organisations, mainly in Executive Management and Director roles, developing broad skills in the education and health and well-being sectors, locally and internationally.

Geoff's consulting activities have focused on  governance, strategy, business development and business restructuring. Start-up organisations have been a feature. Geoff’s diverse business background is framed by undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in business, management, marketing and industrial relations.

For the community

smartaed is a collaboration that brings together a combination of strategic and marketing expertise informed by more than half a century of innovation and development experience. Long time colleagues, David, Stan and Geoff, are working hard to translate into reality their vision of publicly accessible defibrillators that can be monitored and located in real time. 

We are grateful for the support of the Westpac Group in our endeavours. ​