MAGNETICA - Key Persons


Antonio Augello

Job Titles:
  • General Manager - Business Development
  • Strategic Leader
Antonio is a strategic leader with a progressive career of 25 years. He has experience in selling medical devices to customers/distributors, backing up those sales with top-quality service, while building and maintaining good relationships with distributors, clients, and strategic luminaries.

Atul Minhas

Job Titles:
  • Head of Product Development
Atul has extensive experience in delivering multiple MRI projects since 2007 through his industrial as well as academic positions. He has a rare experience of designing and developing 3T whole body MRI systems from concept to fully functional imaging devices. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering.

Carl Glass

Job Titles:
  • General Manager - Tecmag
Carl has advanced business and engineering degrees and has over 20 years of experience leading business operations for companies that design and manufacture complex electromechanical equipment.

Clint Gouveia - COO, CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Executive Director
  • Business Leader
Clint is a business leader with over 30 years of experience managing product design and manufacturing operations, in hi-tech and complex organisations. Clint has worked within the superconducting magnet industry since 1987. He gained significant global commercial and technical experience via numerous customer-facing engineering and management roles whilst with Oxford Instruments, coupled with OEM account, product and project management. Clint joined Varian Inc. in 2006, taking responsibility for their superconducting magnet test facility and product output, generating approximately $80M of revenue per annum. By 2012 Clint was overseeing the entire manufacturing and test functions at Agilent's Oxford campus, with approximately 100 reports. Formerly Scientific Magnetics (SciMag) Director of Operations, Clint took over the role of Managing Director of SciMag in February 2018. Clint is a Chartered Scientist with the UK Science Council, holds a BSc with first-class honours and is a fellow of The Institute of Science and Technology. Clint also works as a volunteer, assessing Chartered Scientist Applications on behalf of the Institute of Science and Technology.

Duncan Stovell - CEO, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Managing Director
Duncan is an experienced executive, having successfully fulfilled a range of commercial and technical roles in high-tech companies, operating within medtech, energy, mining, defence and communications industries. Duncan has spent the last 12+ years living and working in Brisbane, having grown up and worked in the UK prior to moving to Australia. Duncan has a business and technical background, with over 20 years of experience gained from high-tech product commercialisation in a range of industries including MedTech, energy, mining, defence and satellite communications. Duncan holds a number of qualifications, including an MBA from The University of Queensland and two technical degrees from Universities in the UK. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Chartered Engineer.

Kevin Yeh

Job Titles:
  • ICT Manager
With dual Masters in Electrical Engineering & Marketing and able to speak four languages, Kevin is responsible for company wide ICT and sourcing for R&D and production activities.

Martyn Paley

Job Titles:
  • Consultant to
  • Scientific and Technical Advisor
Martyn is a consultant to Magnetica and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield, pictured here in the Science Museum, London next to the world's first regulatory cleared system dedicated to both neonatal and MSK MRI, which he helped develop.

Ryan Grieger

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Finance Manager
Ryan is a Chartered Accountant with commercial experience in tech companies. He is experienced in integrating finance into operation strategy.

Sara Eastwood

Job Titles:
  • Manufacturing Engineer
  • General Manager - Australia
Sara is a Manufacturing Engineer and experienced project and program manager with technical knowledge spanning many fields. She holds a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering.

Stephen Denaro - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Company Secretary
Mr Denaro has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, business valuations, accountancy services, and income tax compliance gained from positions as Company Secretary, Chief Financial Officer and Non-Executive Director of various public companies, and with major chartered accountancy firms in Australia and the United Kingdom. He provides Company Secretarial and Board services for a number of technology ASX listed and unlisted companies. Mr Denaro has a Bachelor of Business in Accountancy, Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Stephen King

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Steve was appointed as Finance Director and Company Secretary of Avingtrans in September 2002. Before joining Avingtrans, he was at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a Senior Manager in the Assurance and Specialist Transaction practice. Stephen has a first-class degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has extensive experience in M&A, having overseen over 20 acquisitions and two disposals to date for Avingtrans, as well as the establishment of the Chinese wholly-owned foreign enterprises, restructuring & turnaround of underperforming businesses, capital raising and reporting.

Steve McQuillan

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Steve joined Avingtrans as CEO in October 2008. Over the last twelve years, the market cap of Avingtrans has increased by more than a factor of 10, deriving from multiple acquisitions and disposals and consistent performance improvements, to build shareholder value. Steve joined Avingtrans from Serco, where he had spent four years as a Director of the National Physical Laboratory and, then as the Managing Director of the Serco Defence Operations business. A graduate engineer, Steve started his career in the oil industry, working for Conoco in the North Sea. A long period at Mars Inc followed, mostly at Mars Electronics, where Steve moved to France to run their Western European operations and ultimately became the general manager of the Swiss banknote recognition business, Sodeco. Subsequently, as sales director, Steve was part of the team that sold Marconi Instruments to IFR Inc., before spending the following six years at Oxford Instruments, as Managing Director of its Superconductivity Division. Steve is currently a trustee director of the Institute of Export and was previously a non-executive director at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation and at the UK Atomic Energy Authority.

Stuart Crozier

Job Titles:
  • Scientific and Technical Advisor
Founding inventor of Magnetica's key technologies, Professor Stuart Crozier is also the former Director of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Queensland.

Tanya Love

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Manager
With a background that spans all digital marketing modalities, and specialising in photography and design, Tanya joins our team to fly the marketing flag for the Magnetica brands. As we ramp up our commercialisation efforts, Tanya's enthusiasm to align our marketing processes, strategy and content will be instrumental for our continued growth.