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

START-UP OF THE YEAR

Australian Defence Industry Awards FINALIST 2020

CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR

Australian Defence Industry Awards FINALIST 2020

CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR

Australian Defence Industry Awards FINALIST 2022

CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR

Australian Defence Industry Awards FINALIST 2023

What We Do

Expertise

Consulting

Strategic thinking and agile implementation methods are at the centre of JVAT’s consulting approach.

Expertise

Assurance & Advisory

We adopt a risk-based methodology during our audit and assurance processes by targeting key organisational risk areas.

Expertise

Engineering Services

Our multi-disciplined engineering consultants are familiar with the cradle-to-grave of product development from early concept and requirements generation through to certification and sustainment.

Expertise

Training

The key to helping a business implement its risk strategy is in building the right capabilities to execute it.

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.

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:

Cost Saving

Significantly reducing costs related to downtime and recovery

Efficiency

Rapidly increasing the speed of responses to disruptions

Performance

Optimising data analytics and leveraging technologies

Agility

Empowering your company’s ability to withstand stresses and disruptions

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

Director

Dr James Whitehill

Director - Asia Pacific and Europe

Paul Graham

Director - North America

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

Increased the level and quality of management safety interactions conducted by our leadership group.

Manager, Aggreko,

Quality Health Safety Environment Manager

JVAT supported Thales Australia throughout the month-long gate review and then continued to assist and influence Hawkei’s safety design process for a further two years.

Thales Australia,

Defence & National Security

Timely, professional and compliant support is a key ingredient when navigating the complex defence manufacturing market, and having JVAT as a partner we can rely upon has been invaluable

Holmwood Highgate,

Military Program Director

Resilience, Engagement, Wellbeing & Leadership.

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