Financial Director – Mia Kishwar

Mia Kishwar is the Financial Director of Praxium Cyber.

Mia is an ACA‑qualified Chartered Accountantwith a background in governance, risk, and compliance, and experience working with leading global professional services firms including EY, PwC, and KPMG. She brings strong technical expertise alongside a commitment to best practice and continuous improvement.

Her work focuses on operating effectively within complex regulatory environments, with particular expertise in financial oversight, risk management, and the design and implementation of robust control frameworks. Mia has led large‑scale, multi‑entity programmes, improving organisational processes to enhance transparency, auditability, and operational efficiency.

At Praxium Cyber, Mia supports organisations in understanding cyber risk through a governance and business lens, ensuring security considerations are aligned with regulatory expectations, financial exposure, and operational resilience. She plays a key role in advising on compliance, risk management, business continuity planning, and in supporting Praxium Cyber’s Virtual CISO service.

Mia works closely with senior stakeholders to deliver clear, commercially focused insight that supports informed decision‑making and proactive risk management. She is known for her analytical approach, attention to detail, and the consistent delivery of high‑quality outcomes.

Founder – Rob Goddard

Rob Goddard is the founder of Praxium Cyber and a former police detective with thirty years’ service in UK policing.

Rob worked as a digital media investigator for eleven years, supporting serious and complex criminal investigations. This role focused on technical lines of enquiry, digital evidence handling, and the examination of offender activity. This experience highlighted how offences are carried out in practice, how evidence is created through everyday use of technology, and why many assumptions about systems and security fail once they are used by real people under real‑world pressures.

As cyber crime became an increasingly significant threat, Rob was among the early members involved in Team Cyber UK, established as the UK’s coordinated response to the growing scale and impact of cyber offending. This work sat at the intersection of traditional investigation, emerging digital threats, and organisational impact, providing early exposure to how cyber incidents affect not just systems, but people, processes, and decision‑making.

In the final six years of his policing career, Rob specialised fully in the investigation of cyber crime. He worked on a broad range of incidents affecting both individuals and organisations, including personal account compromise, business email compromise, distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) attacks, insider threats, and ransomware incidents targeting business networks.

This progression from digital investigation into dedicated cyber crime investigation has given Rob a clear, practical understanding of how cyber incidents unfold in real environments — not just technically, but organisationally and operationally. It is this experience that underpins his advisory work with organisations, helping them improve their cyber security posture in ways that are realistic, proportionate, and achievable.

Alongside his operational background, Rob holds a master’s degree in criminology from the University of Cambridge and maintains a range of professional cyber security credentials. His academic background complements his practical experience, particularly in understanding the human, behavioural, and organisational factors that contribute to cyber risk.

Throughout his career, Rob has developed strong communication and advisory skills, enabling him to work effectively with technical specialists, senior leadership, and non‑technical stakeholders. At Praxium Cyber, this translates into clear explanation, sound judgement, and advice that organisations can confidently act upon.