About Us
Our cross functional team of consultants and specialists offer expertise across technical engineering, project and business management.
JVAT is a certified management consultancy firm that provides risk and assurance services across the Defence, Transport and Energy sectors.
Our unique multi-disciplinary approach will inspire excellence within your business by providing innovative solutions that not only vastly improve project delivery, but simultaneously enhance team performance.
Our Markets
Defence
Transport
Energy
What We Do
Who We Work With
Our Team
Our risk and assurance and engineering solutions offer valuable insights and clear pathways that lead to truly meaningful actions and change.
Our Transport Expertise
Electrification, automation and enhancements in communications technology have the potential to transform supply chains and the way people travel. However, as projects become larger and increasingly complex, they also have the capacity to disrupt risk and assurance frameworks.
JVAT’s management solutions are tailored to meet the unique challenges challenging this sector. Delivered by our specialist team of consultants, engineers and assurance experts, we provide great rigour and consistency around infrastructure identification, evaluation and implementation.
While inspiring confidence through quality and innovation, JVAT’s risk and assurance solutions must also meet the following industry criteria:
JVAT’s key focus is on ensuring quality information is provided at the right time to Transport and Infrastructure stakeholders in order to ensure ‘justified confidence’ in the sector’s risk management maturity, as well as to allow informed risk-based decision making.
Our History
2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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Technical Solutions
Specialist Engineering
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
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System Safety & Assurance
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
Learn More Software Assurance
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
Learn More Operational Test & Evaluation
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
Learn More Technical Certification & Licensing
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
Learn More Integrated Logistics Support
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
Learn More Human Factors
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
Learn More ICT and Cyber Security
Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
Learn More Our Specialist Engineering capabilities are designed to support safety-critical and high-complexity projects with precision and assurance. We apply global best practices to ensure that systems meet stringent safety, performance, and compliance standards.
We offer:
• Design and delivery of tailored safety programs (aligned with MIL-STD-882E, ISO 31001, DEF STAN 00-56 and EN 50126/50128/50129) • Hazard identification and structured risk assessment (HAZOP, FMECA, FTA) • Safety case development aligned to regulatory and operational needs • Independent safety reviews and certification support • Integration of safety across systems, platforms, processes and lifecycle phases We bring grounded, experience-led advice - focused on outcomes, not just process.
We work with Army programs and land domain contractors to deliver system safety, logistics support, and assurance for vehicle platforms, weapons systems, and enabling technologies.
Our involvement includes risk management during acquisition, development of land safety cases, and integration with training and support elements. We help ensure land-based capability is robust, adaptable, and operationally ready.
In the maritime domain, we support naval acquisition and sustainment programs with seaworthiness assurance, certification advice, integrated logistics support, and human systems integration.
Our experts contribute to platform-specific safety cases, environmental management plans, and onboard system design assurance, helping to deliver safe and effective maritime capability for the Royal Australian Navy and industry.
We have the ability to support the emerging and evolving space sector with systems engineering, assurance, and safety support for defence and dual-use technologies.
We can assist with capability definition, architectural integration, and lifecycle assurance strategies for launch systems, ground support infrastructure, and satellite payloads. Our structured systems approach ensures space capability aligns with defence requirements and future-readiness.
Cyber resilience is foundational to modern defence capability. We provide cyber-physical systems assurance, security governance, and risk management frameworks aligned to Defence Security Manuals (DSM) and international standards.
We ensure that mission-critical systems are protected, verified, and resilient across operational theatres, integrating cybersecurity into safety, software, and systems engineering disciplines.
Our Energy Expertise
Drawing from our exceptional industry knowledge and extensive consultant network, we provide a fresh perspective on delivering integrated solutions for the Oil and Gas, Power and Water sectors.
Our approach inspires confidence through quality driven, innovative, solutions-based industry criteria. It includes the following:
JVAT’s key focus is on ensuring quality information is provided at the right time to Energy and Resources stakeholders in order to ensure ‘justified confidence’ in the organisations’ risk management maturity, as well as to allow informed risk-based decision making.
We add value to risk turning stagnant processes, deliverables and checklists into intelligent, smoothly-executed outcomes, thus inspiring great client and stakeholder confidence in your organisation.
Most importantly, we help you drive your business forward, providing you and your team with the tools to sustain and embed outcomes far beyond your engagement with us.
We work together to understand your current challenges and aspirations in order to develop unique solutions that create certainty and simplicity.
The value and the benefits include:
Snapshot
Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Industry: Management Consultancy
Seats: 100+
Locations: Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Company: Privately Held
Specialties
Our team consists of professional management consultants, engineers and assurance subject matter experts. We specialise in Risk & Assurance, including:
Systems, Software & Safety Engineering
Systems, Software & Safety Assurance
Human Factors Engineering
Security & Cybersecurity
Management Consulting
Enterprise Risk Management
Governance, Change Management & Culture
User Experience (UX) Design
Resilience & Wellbeing
Leadership Team
Executive Leadership
Jimmy Stewart
Managing Director
Dr James Whitehill
Chief Strategy & Operations Officer
Paul Graham
Vice President USA
Senior Leadership
Chris Drummond
Director – Strategic Business Development Australia
Henry Gardner
Director – Strategic Business Development UK
Monica Bodas
Associate Director Culture & People Experience
Matt Allwright
Associate Director - Program Delivery Australia
Peter Symons
Associate Director - Program Delivery UK
Values
Dedication to Success
Innovation that Matters
Trust, Responsibility & Transparency
Articles & Insights
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Specialist Capability Services
Short-term assignments
On-site presence to work under the clients’ direction and working routine
Diverse skill sets across a breadth of capabilities
Flexibility to deploy support quickly and efficiently
Nuclear-Powered Submarines
- Innovation to improve performance within the submarine delivery enterprise. - Regulatory navigation and sovereign industrial enablement. - In-country NSQEP team - Infrastructure safety cases, licensing and regulatory compliance We help shape and deliver key elements of the nuclear enterprise - from regulatory pathways and infrastructure integration to workforce readiness and safety assurance.
Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO)
Our involvement includes risk management during acquisition, development of land safety cases, and integration with training and support elements. We help ensure land-based capability is robust, adaptable, and operationally ready.
In the maritime domain, we support naval acquisition and sustainment programs with seaworthiness assurance, certification advice, integrated logistics support, and human systems integration.
Our experts contribute to platform-specific safety cases, environmental management plans, and onboard system design assurance, helping to deliver safe and effective maritime capability for the Royal Australian Navy and industry.
We have the ability to support the emerging and evolving space sector with systems engineering, assurance, and safety support for defence and dual-use technologies.
We can assist with capability definition, architectural integration, and lifecycle assurance strategies for launch systems, ground support infrastructure, and satellite payloads. Our structured systems approach ensures space capability aligns with defence requirements and future-readiness.
Cyber resilience is foundational to modern defence capability. We provide cyber-physical systems assurance, security governance, and risk management frameworks aligned to Defence Security Manuals (DSM) and international standards.
We ensure that mission-critical systems are protected, verified, and resilient across operational theatres, integrating cybersecurity into safety, software, and systems engineering disciplines.
Partner Centric Approach
Our partner-centric focus drives the development of holistic, outcome-focused solutions that evolve with our partners’ needs. We integrate seamlessly as their businesses grow, aligning with their strategic goals and operational requirements for long-term success. We stand by our partners through all challenges, delivering consistent results and achieving shared objectives in a true two-way partnership.
Innovative Delivery Approach
Adaptive Agile Delivery
Global Knowledge Network
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JVAT is an ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 certified consultancy.
We know that quality, the environment, and health and safety is paramount to both our success and yours, so we ensure this is at the heart of everything we do.
Leading Global partner in innovative trusted engineering and assurance solutions
JVAT started with a simple but bold idea: challenge the status quo.
Our founders saw first-hand how traditional engineering and assurance approaches could hold progress back. They believed there was a better way – one that delivered outcomes without the bureaucracy.
From day one, we built JVAT on trust, transparency and innovation. This mindset lets us move fast, solve complex problems with clarity and flex with the needs of our clients – whether they are shaping strategy or navigating commercialisation of innovative project.
We are proud to be different. Proud to be the partner that cuts through complexity, unlocks capability and delivers real results.
That belief has taken us across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States – and it still drives us every day.
Snapshot
Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Industry: Management Consultancy
Seats: 100+
Locations: Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Company: Privately Held
Specialties
Our team consists of professional management consultants, engineers and assurance subject matter experts. We specialise in Risk & Assurance, including:
Systems, Software & Safety Engineering
Systems, Software & Safety Assurance
Human Factors Engineering
Security & Cybersecurity
Management Consulting
Enterprise Risk Management
Governance, Change Management & Culture
User Experience (UX) Design
Resilience & Wellbeing
Leadership Team
Executive Leadership
Jimmy Stewart
Managing Director
Dr James Whitehill
Chief Strategy & Operations Officer
Paul Graham
Vice President USA
Senior Leadership
Chris Drummond
Director – Strategic Business Development Australia
Henry Gardner
Director – Strategic Business Development UK
Monica Bodas
Associate Director Culture & People Experience
Matt Allwright
Associate Director - Program Delivery Australia
Peter Symons
Associate Director - Program Delivery UK
Values
Dedication to Success
Innovation that Matters