Hi,
I’m Davina Mansfield, the new MD of Kiah. I’m returning to Kiah after 7 years of experiences elsewhere. What a journey and what an opportunity.
Kiah has done amazing work over more than 20 years, has IP, experience and is well known across the public sector and Defence. It has a great reputation and has been very successful dealing with the urgent, the intractable, and the challenging, under the leadership of John Glenn.
The future will be different. We are not leaving the past but building on it. We will undoubtedly take new directions as both the business and the market changes.
Some things haven’t changed. Kiah is veteran owned, veteran led, and veteran friendly. We offer professional services across the public sector, Defence, national security and industry. Public services remain our focus but not necessarily our sole endeavour. We are already doing more in the innovation sector, for example.
Our business has always been built around good people given the opportunity to do amazing things. A demand for quality, the need to push boundaries, the drive to make a difference. We are a safe pair of hands when you are feeling a bit unsafe.
Kiah has been around a long time, we are not a startup or a gamble, and we are evolving. Embracing the past, engaging with the future. I invite you to stay in contact, to follow me personally, and Kiah. Life should be an adventure, who knows where it will lead.
Davina
Ask for a call-backMy office is cleaned out as I start the journey of standing aside and handing the Kiah MD role over to someone else. Just over 20 years ago I found myself redundant. Without a job. Facing, for the first time, that I was not wanted. Worse, I couldn’t find anyone that I really wanted to […]
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