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Founded in 2015, VoxExcel Cyber are a leading consulting led cyber security company focused on providing best-in-class, strategic advisory services and innovative technology solutions. 

We specialise in assisting C-level executives in navigating the complexity of security governance, risk management and regulatory compliance requirements, while bridging the gap between management objectives and the requirements of technical teams.

Our team of consultants and engineers are focused problem solvers with deep technical knowledge and broad industry experience, across many and industry sectors including banking, financial services, retail, airline, government, telco, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing.

We take a business centric approach to assessing and improving corporate capabilities and work with our clients to achieve the full benefits of their existing investments, partnering with selected best-of-breed technology vendors and complimentary service providers, enabling us to scale and deliver on complex requirements. 

Acquired by DVGA in 2022, the company also provides data privacy, supply chain audit, and ISO implementation software solutions, to many major clients. The company operates across Europe, USA, Africa and Middle East.

Founded in 2015, VoxExcel Cyber are a leading consulting led cyber security company focused on providing best-in-class, strategic advisory services and innovative technology solutions.

We specialise in assisting C-level executives in navigating the complexity of security governance, risk management and regulatory compliance requirements, while bridging the gap between management objectives and the requirements of technical teams.

Our team of consultants and engineers are focused problem solvers with deep technical knowledge and broad industry experience, across many and industry sectors including banking, financial services, retail, airline, government, telco, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing.

We take a business centric approach to assessing and improving corporate capabilities and work with our clients to achieve the full benefits of their existing investments, partnering with selected best-of-breed technology vendors and complimentary service providers, enabling us to scale and deliver on complex requirements.

Acquired by DVGA in 2022, the company also provides data privacy, supply chain audit, and ISO implementation software solutions, to many major clients. The company operates across Europe, USA, Africa and Middle East.

Diligence and delivery

Alongside this, we also offer our own best-in-class, in-house developed software audit tools, for:

Data Privacy within:

  • UK (GDPR)
  • EU (GDPR)
  • California (CCPA)
  • South Africa (POPIA)
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ISO preparation tools for:

  • 9001
  • 27001
  • 14001
  • 23001
  • 45001

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27001
14001
23001
45001

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Meet The Senior Team

We have a team of seasoned cyber experts that carry
certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 and CREST
and have several years of industry experience.

Proven track record of over 7 years and a 100% delivery
success rate projects delivered across Africa and Europe
projects across most industry sectors such as government,
financial, fintech, telco, airline, retail, mining, manufacturing,
defense, media, healthcare and hospitality.

Sanjay Charavanapavan

Managing Director &
Head of Services

William Despard

Head of Business Development

Mike Webster

Commercial Director

Grand Donald

Chief
Technology Officer & Head
of Technical Services

Edward
Atherton

Senior Project Manager

Philippe
Mourand

Managing Director,
Mauritius

Aurélie Mariette

Senior Business
Consultant

Michelle Barnett​

Senior Governance,
Risk, Compliance &
Privacy Specialist

Aurélie Mariette

Senior Business
Consultant

Michelle Barnett​

Senior Governance,
Risk, Compliance &
Privacy Specialist

Martin Perks

Chairman

Martin Gillard

Group CEO

Martin Gillard CEO & Co-Founder

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Krishna Doddi Chief Architect

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Sanjay Charavanapavan

Managing Director & Head of Services and Founder of VoxExcel SA

Sanjay has over 23 years experience in IT and Cybersecurity, and is considered a leading regional expert in his field. He possesses a solid information security and enterprise architecture background having worked for large financials, global IT service providers and on a wide variety of projects across the world.

His expertise extends across several areas of technology such as enterprise systems management, business applications (e.g. core banking, policy admin and CRM) and infrastructure systems. His security experience includes a wide technical product knowledge coupled with experience with governance, risk and security management practices.

Sanjay has significant corporate experience in the financial services sector and service provider experience having worked with several financials both  in the region and globally.

Sanjay has fulfilled enterprise architecture roles throughout his career having led the architecture function for Old Mutual Africa and led the selection of core banking systems, policy administration systems and led the implementation of large infrastructure and security projects.

He is a member of professional bodies ISC, ISACA, FIRM and OCEG, served on the board of ISACA SA from 2007 to 2020, and is a Gartner Associate.

William Despard

Head of Business Development

William has over 30 years’ experience of working in the IT industry, 18 years of those spent within Information Security. He has senior level experience and relationships within the Risk Advisory, Security Consulting, Data Governance and Managed Services fields, where he has numerous network relationships in the software and IT Channel Partner arena.

He has enjoyed extensive success in revenue growth through developing sales teams, and in training, positioning and managing the core pillars of an organizations services. Has also recruited and trained specialist technical and commercial staff members.

William has also developed the delivery methodologies for core business pillars, designed and delivered specialist data governance management assessments and remediation roadmaps. And has also architected specific remediation strategies for key sectors that faced unique challenges with the risk postures of information security and data governance, and successfully managed broad-spectrum delivery resources across multiple projects at multiple clients.

Mike Webster

Commercial Director & Co-Founder

Mike has over 25 years’ business experience, including 19 years as a managing partner of a London law firm, advising on a wide range of businesses including IT, manufacturing, professional services, retail, food, advertising, education and health.

Through his commercial experience and leadership, Michael has advised many businesses, on growth and acquisition strategies, change management, business re-structures succession planning, management buy-outs and business sales.

Michael holds a LLB (Hons) and in 2009 became a Freeman of the City of London

Grand Donald

Chief Technology Officer & Head of Technical Services

Grant holds a number of certifications including ITIL, CISSP, MDP, Microsoft 365 Cloud Security and is a member of several professional bodies including ISC2 and University of Stellenbosch Alumni. Grant has 25 years of experience in the IT industry with 23 years in Information Security Management and Computer Forensics. Grant is a certified security professional and experienced team leader. Responsible for growing and managing a number of specialised Security teams over the last 16 years. Throughout his career he has worked extensively in Oil and Gas, Financial Services and the Information Technology Service industries. He has successfully run initiatives ranging from payment card industry compliance programmes to managed service integrations and IT security roadmap design and delivery.

Edward Atherton

Senior Project Manager

Eddie holds a PRINCE2 certification and has practiced project management since 2002. Eddie is a Project Manager with experience across various sectors – backed by over 20 years of broad IT industry experience, he has a technical background coupled with management and business experience. His project management expertise extends from technical products and systems implementations to enterprise projects, mostly in the information and communication technology spheres. For approximately seven of the years of this duration, he was involved in managing all national information and communications technology projects. . Throughout his career, Eddie has worked extensively in the Telecoms & ISP, Government, Technology Services, Banking & Finance and Oil & Gas industries. 

Philippe Mourand

Managing Director, Mauritius

Philippe has over 20 years’ experience in the ICT sector. He worked as engineer for Harel Mallac, for 11 years before setting up his own company.

His main areas of expertise are networking, Microsoft products, Cisco products, antivirus solutions, backup solutions, web site design and ecommerce.

Philippe graduated with an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Marseille (France) in 1989 and became MCSE (Microsoft Certified System Engineer) in 2002.

Aurélie Mariette

Senior Business Consultant

Aurélie holds of a Master’s degree in Financial Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics with specialization in Information Systems. She has over 10 years’ experience in strategy advisory consultancy services, working on multiple projects across a wide range of industries such as the Banking, Financial Services, Telco and Government services. Expertise acquired on the African continent; Mauritius, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Uganda, Ghana and Ivory Coast. A Subject Matter Expert for Bank-Wide, Retail Banking and Digitalisation strategies, including risk management. 

Michelle Barnett

Senior Governance, Risk, Compliance & Privacy Specialist

Michelle holds a B.Com Hons (IS) Cum Laude UCT, One Identity Technical Specialist, MCSE, MCNE and many other technical certifications. Michelle is a professional member of ISACA.

Michelle is an experienced information security professional with more than 25 years’ experience in all aspects of IT.  Having a strong technical background gives her the confidence to undertake governance, compliance, risk and architecture projects with an excellent understanding of the technical components that support it.  She has worked on multiple projects which include a number of governance and compliance projects (POPIA, PCIDSS, security controls development and implementation, audit and assurance) for large multi-national organisations.  Michelle has been instrumental in leading a number of organisations with  implementing an IT Governance programs as well as provided valuable refinements to grow and enhance the security posture of the organisations.  Coming from a very solid technical background, Michelle has also initiated, as well as completed many complex technical implementations such a CISCO VOIP telephony and Service Centre implementations.

Martin Perks

Chairman

Martin is a Fellow of the Royal institution of Chartered Surveyors spending his career in infrastructure, industry and development organisations, and has been a visiting Professor at Birmingham City University since 2016 focusing on project procurement and commercial management. He also understands both public and private sector business management, governance and risk assessment.

Recently Martin was the architect of a unique delivery and commercial model in UK Highways construction, focusing on Integrated Project Delivery

Using Lean Project Management and behavioural economics, Martin’s research is stimulating a generational shift in integrated Project team working across UK’s highway sector. Procurement and delivery challenges include data and cyber security

Martin Gillard

Group CEO

Martin has over 25 years successful business growth and management expertise in a variety of senior management roles.

He has worked in over 40 countries across the IT, Energy, Renewable Energy, Water, Housing, Infrastructure, Forestry, Logistics, and Horticultural sectors.

Prior to acquiring DVG, he worked as COO of a US based Oman multinational, and an AirBnB type software portal build for the US based Recreational Vehicle (RV) market.

Martin is a financial analyst, and holds an MBA, and participates annually in ongoing continuous executive education at financial analytics school CFI, Cambridge University and Harvard Universities.