About Us

Edward Lewis

Chief Executive Officer

Edward co-founded and leads CyXcel as CEO, bringing over 20 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of law and cybersecurity. His career began as a lawyer in the UK, where a focus on infrastructure risk and technology disputes sparked his passion for helping businesses navigate the rapidly evolving digital world.

Edward’s unique path has seen him lead teams through some of the most high-profile cyber incidents, from nation-state intrusions and ransomware attacks to corporate transformations. His expertise in cyber law, technology regulation, and risk management enables him to guide clients through complex challenges while helping them seize new opportunities for growth and success.

For Edward, cybersecurity is about more than just technology—it’s about building resilient, collaborative teams capable of tackling complex issues with agility and confidence. This people-first philosophy has defined his leadership at CyXcel and continues to drive his approach.

Beyond CyXcel, Edward serves as Director of the Cyber Monitoring Centre, a non-profit focused improving national resilience against the impacts of systemic cyber risk. Recognised by Legal 500 as “brilliant, commercial, and a tough negotiator,” Edward’s influence extends beyond the boardroom as he works to shape a safer, more secure digital future for all. 

Jano Bermudes

Chief Operations Officer

Jano serves as CyXcel’s Chief Operations Officer, offering clients over 20 years' experience delivering specialist cyber risk management and technology consulting services within high-performance organisations.

Jano’s strong technical background helps CyXcel’s clients understand, measure, and manage all aspects of technology risk. His diverse experience includes evaluating and adopting new and emerging technologies like the cloud, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and AI, as well as the implementation and maintenance of mission-critical applications and infrastructure within businesses.
Jano and his team of experts support clients through major crisis events, including data breaches, complex fraud investigations, destructive ransomware attacks and complex post-breach litigation. 

Prior to joining CyXcel, Jano served in senior cyber leadership roles at KPMG, Navigant Consulting, Ankura Consulting and Marsh McLennan, where he developed and led numerous client service capabilities, including in critical national infrastructure, technology risk management and security architecture.

Simon Church

Chief Strategy Officer

Simon is CyXcel's Chief Strategy Officer. A 35-year veteran of the technology industry, specialising in cybersecurity services and solutions, he has had first-hand experience in building, operating, and acquiring managed and professional services businesses for over 20 years.
He has held executive leadership positions at companies including Maxive Cyber Security (acquired by Thales), Optiv, Vodafone, NTT Security, Verisign and NetIQ.

In addition to his role at CyXcel, Simon serves as Chair of Xalient, a UK-headquartered cyber, identity and networking managed services provider. He serves as Chair of 4most, a provider of risk analytics and modelling solutions to banks and insurers. He is a member of the Board and Strategic Advisor to Redshift, a Portuguese cyberservices company. He is a member of the Board of beqom, a Swiss compensation and performance management firm. He also serves on the Advisory Board of UK-based security technology company Glasswall.

Jill Dalkin

Head of Service Delivery

Jill serves as CyXcel’s Head of Service Delivery, where she leverages her extensive experience in mobilising large teams of lawyers, technical specialists and subject matter experts to efficiently manage resources and costs in the delivery of major projects. Working closely with the CEO, Jill is responsible for ensuring the highest level of client service across CyXcel.

Jill has over 15 years' litigation experience in transactional processes and data recovery. She has managed breach of warranty and indemnity claims, and orchestrated cases involving intellectual property, franchising, and shareholder disputes. Her data recovery efforts in the UK High Court have included successful implementations of interim-remedies in litigation (injunctions, contempt of court, interim payments, and security for costs). Jill’s committed work has resulted in reported decisions recovering confidential information, strike out, and successful claims for damages exceeding £30m in the Technology and Construction Court and Chancery Division of the UK High Court.

John Kemp

Chief Commercial Officer

John is CyXcel’s Chief Commercial Officer, where he is responsible for commercial success across all clients, channels, and partnerships.

With over 20 years in technology sales and leadership roles, he has spent the past ten years building industry-leading commercial teams in cybersecurity and intelligence consulting, developing reciprical channel strategies and driving predictable revenue growth. Prior to joining CyXcel, John served as Chief Revenue Officer at S-RM, Associate Managing Director at Kroll, Head of Sales at NCC Group, and also held senior roles at Cisco and Gartner.

John has a proven track record of recruiting, coaching, and motivating high-performing teams globally, and securing large and complex contracts with key accounts. His focus at CyXcel is to drive value and excellence to all clients and partners, driving growth and innovation in the cybersecurity and risk industry.

Dr Megha Kumar

Chief Product Officer and Head of Geopolitical Risk

Megha is CyXcel’s Chief Product Officer and Head of Geopolitical Risk. She brings over 14 years’ experience in product innovation, service delivery and client development in the geostrategic intelligence and country risk industry.

She has been a long-standing, trusted advisor to C-Suite decision-makers in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, across the technology, energy, mining, finance and infrastructure sectors. Within the public sector, she has worked extensively with major governments on national policy and regulations, and various international bodies, including the United Nations, IMF, NATO and the World Bank. 
               
She is a well-known expert on global digital and technology policy, emerging technologies such as AI, and digital market regulations, and on developing Asian economies.    

A renowned researcher and writer on technology and gender rights, she has co-authored ‘Global Perspectives on Women, Work and Digital Labour Platforms’ and authored ‘Communalism and Sexual Violence in India:  The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict’.

Prior to joining CyXcel, Megha held senior leadership positions at Oxford Analytica, where she established and led the firm’s Cybersecurity and Technology Practice for over seven years. She has lectured in history and politics at the University of Oxford, and was a journalist at two major Indian broadsheets. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Bryan Marlatt

Chief Regional Officer (North America)

Bryan is CyXcel’s Chief Regional Officer for North America, bringing over 30 years of cybersecurity expertise as an engineer, architect, and senior security leader as he helps expand CyXcel’s global operations.

Bryan’s delivery and management experience includes: cybersecurity strategy; cybersecurity and network architecture design; systems integration; cybersecurity transformation; and build out of regulatory compliance and risk management programmes.

Prior to joining CyXcel, Bryan served in a number of senior cybersecurity roles in the private sector, including as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), gaining extensive experience in building, transforming, and protecting large-scale environments around the world. His private sector experience includes over seven years in IT and cybersecurity consulting services with KPMG.  A US army veteran, Bryan spent 14 years in the military.