Tesserent appoints James Ormesher as chief growth officer

Cybersecurity consulting firm Tesserent has appointed James Ormesher as its chief growth officer.

His appointment comes to help spearhead customer acquisition and growth within the region.

Ormesher has a background in sales leadership across commercial, government and defence sectors ranging from mid-market to enterprise.

He joined VMtech at its inception and helped expand the startup from four people to 100 and the sale to Telstra in 2017.

He previously was the head of sales – technology services growth at Telstra Purple.

Kurt Hansen, CEO at Tesserent said, "I am delighted to welcome Ormesher, who will play an important role in turbocharging our growth as a Thales company and enhanced force in the Australian and New Zealand market.

“He will be key to our aggressive growth and expansion strategy over the coming year and beyond." 

Ormesher said, "I am excited to join Tesserent and Thales as the two companies strengthen their cybersecurity offering in the market and spearhead future growth in Australia and New Zealand.

“I was attracted by the depth and breadth of the full-service offering, the unique capabilities in the group and the high calibre of skills within the team in the fight against escalating cybercrime."

Ormesher said he is now focused on enhancing value for customers.

"The combined market force of Tesserent under Thales means there is strong potential to inform our existing extensive customer base of our bolstered service provision,” he said.

“We work with many extremely well-known brands in Australia and New Zealand, but they may only know one or two of our service lines. My aim is to continue delivering excellent customer service and demonstrate the many other areas we can partner together to strengthen their cybersecurity defences.”

Tesserent provides cybersecurity consulting services to the federal government.

The cybersecurity firm has more than 1300 customers spanning three key verticals of government, critical infrastructure and banking, financial services and insurance and is used by 51 of the ASX top 100 companies.