About

Skybox Health (formerly AAMBER Software) is an Australian EdTech established to address digital health training requirements in the health education sector.

Founded by industry leaders, Skybox Health unites expertise in software development and healthcare education to embed digital health transformation into healthcare education.

With a commitment to co-design, we collaborate with clinicians, health science academics, and industry leaders to create academic software that is both reflective of healthcare workflows and aligned with curriculum deliverybridging the technology gap between real-world clinical practice and health education.  

We leverage collective expertise of our partners to stay ahead of trends, and contribute to the advancement of EMR education, clinical practice and patient outcomes.

Meet the team.

Pip Gent

Pip Gent

Chief Academic Officer

Pip is an academic with experience teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students across a number of health disciplines. She has clinical expertise in both paramedicine and nursing, specialising in acute care. Pip contributes to excellence in learning and teaching through her role in specialised curriculum development. As a academic lead, her focus is on digital health, including the integration of electronic patient care records across the health disciplines, embedding a digital perspective in undergraduate curriculum and expanding the digital health opportunities at a university level. 

In recognition of her significant contribution to the paramedicine programs at ACU, Pip has been awarded the honorary title of Clinical Fellow. Pip has a Master of Health Professional Education in which her thesis explored the professional development practice and needs of operational paramedics. She is a qualified nurse and paramedic and has strong industry relationships. 

Rhiannon Phillips

Rhiannon Phillips

Chief Creative Officer

Rhiannon brings more than 20 years experience in business, leadership, software design and development, and event direction. She is a seasoned entrepreneur with a history of successful product design and investment, commercialisation, and the creation of complex, strategic partnerships.

Driven by an enduring passion for innovation and emerging technologies, Rhiannon has led pioneering software projects in health, education and video games, and worked on a range of complex R&D projects in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.

Rhiannon has deep experience in the higher education sector and was, for many years, director and co-convenor of Griffith University's Integrity 20 project.

The Skybox collaboration reflects long-term passions for software design, education and digital health.

Darren Baker

Darren Baker

Chief Technical Officer

Darren has been developing commercial software since 1992. He co-founded video game developer Wildfire Studios in 1995, served as CTO and CEO for 17 years, then turned his attention to Double Dash.

Darren has built low level digital audio libraries, realtime 3D engines, physics simulators, tools, PC and console games, mobile and web apps. He regularly works in C++, Scheme, Ruby, C# and SQL. His technical interests include relational databases, distributed systems, data oriented design, code optimisation, and computer vision.

Outside of running his own businesses, Darren worked in fintech for several years, notably for lender Nimble where he developed the machine learning engine powering the first automated decisioning system to be approved by ASIC. Darren holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Queensland.

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Supported by funding from Advance Queensland.

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