Sekuro promotes Jamie Lobo to chief revenue officer

Sydney-based information security consultancy Sekuro has appointed Jamie Lobo to the newly created role of chief revenue officer.

Lobo first joined Sekuro in July of 2023 as state manager for Queensland and the Northern Territory. Prior to this, he worked at support ecosystem platform Vygo for close to two years.

The company, which assists CIOs and CISOs to take a strategic approach to cyber security risk mitigation, governance and compliance, has also appointed James Vercillo as director of strategic clients, heading up a team focused on partnering with Australia’s largest enterprises.

Vercillo has been with the company since its 2021 inception, born out of a merger between cybersecurity consultancies Solista, CXO Security, Privasec and Naviro.

Sekuro CEO Noel Allnutt said that the chief revenue officer position was created both in alignment with client demand and to set the company up for the next stage of growth.

“Our clients in the corporate space demand [a] relatively high touch due to the nature of what we have,” he said.

“Since doing the merger, we've gone from 90 to almost 250 staff, as well as geographical growth all across the major cities in Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia and the UK.

“We're elevating a team of subject matter experts and strategy consultants to work with everyone from corporates to the majors, and that's fuelling the growth.”

Both Lobo and Vercillo will report to Allnutt, a move that the CEO said is designed to take the full sales and marketing function of Sekuro "to the next level" off the back of promoting Karan Khosla from chief delivery officer to chief operating officer last year.

“Modern security has to be delivered across multiple parts of the business, which means a modern security provider needs to be experts not only in compliance, testing and the cloud, but also be able to deliver managed services,” Allnutt said.

“Because both the nature of our portfolio and the value points within clients are changing, we have to have a high touch model to enable those clients to make their organisations more secure.

"Anyone who goes with a single thread of just selling a firewall or selling a service is too forgettable to the client - that's not our model, as we're looking to help them from the data center to the boardroom."

In 2024, Sekuro launched a CrowdStrike powered SIEM and log management security platform, using analytics and AI to automate detection, investigation and correlation of alerts.