Fiona Costello is a seasoned healthcare professional with over 15 years of experience spanning the NHS, private, and non-profit sectors. Currently serving as Strategic Initiatives Lead at eMHIC, International Business Development Director at Aire Innovate, and SVP Partnerships at Brain+, Fiona has consistently demonstrated her commitment to improving health services through technology. Her notable achievements include expanding digital mental health technology within NHS services at SilverCloud Health, contributing to the Canadian Mental Health App Assessment Standard with ORCHA, and enhancing digital health delivery in India. At Aire Innovate, Fiona advocates for the adoption of low-code platforms in healthcare, believing these tools can streamline processes and enhance patient care. With a focus on driving innovation safely and effectively, Fiona remains dedicated to learning and growing in the digital health field, always striving to contribute positively to healthcare outcomes through innovative solutions.

Chris is a system designer, technologist and expert in the field of digital implementation in mental health. In a career spanning over 20 years he has lead a number of ground-breaking, award winning service transformation programmes that have changed fundamentally how mental health treatments and support is delivered across the population of Scotland.

For the past 10 years Chris has held significant and influential national roles and is currently working in Scottish Government as a national advisor for Digital Mental Health and leads the national Digital Mental Health Programme. His work currently focuses on the development of strategy, policy, service and innovative technologies and is working to change the culture across Health and Care services to maximise the impact and the adoption of digital in mental health.

Ben Locke, Ph.D., heads up the Togetherall clinical team, which provides sector-leading levels of support and risk management in the digital mental health space. Dr. Locke is focused on ensuring that 24/7/365 clinical monitoring of the Togetherall community keeps our global membership base safe and supported. He is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years in senior clinical roles in higher education and a range of clinical settings, including hospitals. Dr. Locke was the Director of the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University for nearly two decades, developing a revolutionary tool known as the Clinical Load Index (CLI) that has since been widely adopted by colleges and universities across the US to establish treatment capacity. Dr. Locke holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. 

Barry Syme is the Principal Educational Psychologist for the City of Glasgow, with over 30 years’ experience working within Glasgow’s education services. He holds a strategic remit for children and young people’s mental health in Glasgow schools and represents Education Services on the Glasgow Suicide Prevention Group. Barry has played a key role in developing and delivering suicide awareness and prevention training across all educational establishments in the city.

He leads the provision of school counselling across all 200 Glasgow schools and oversees the commissioning of additional mental health supports for young people, including Togetherall and Kooth. As strategic lead for school attendance, Barry has been instrumental in developing the Quarriers REACH service, which supports young people experiencing emotionally based school non-attendance. His wider responsibilities include leading the All Behaviour is Communication training programme and contributing to the development of Glasgow’s anti-bullying policy and the Education Service’s Promoting Relationships policy.

Barry has served on the Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists Executive Committee for 15 years, previously holding the roles of Secretary, Chair and Treasurer. He is married with two daughters, one a secondary school teacher and the other a veterinary surgeon.