Our Business
Excite Technology Services
Excite Technology Services Limited (ASX:EXT) operates under the brand name Excite Cyber, your no-nonsense, end-to-end technology partner.
We are focussed on enabling our teams to improve the security posture of our customers through optimising what they have and augmenting where needed with managed and professional services. Our best of breed security operations centre and highly trained operations teams monitor customer environments to allow quick and effective response to incidents. Our advisory team helps to determine and implement “reasonable steps” to identify and mitigate cyber risk, utilising industry best practice standards such as the NIST framework and ASD Essential 8.
Our Team
Board of directors
The Excite Technology Services Board brings together a range of relevant experience across industries and organisation lifecycle.
Bryan Saba
Director and CEO
Bryan Saba is a 23-year veteran of the IT services industry, however, it didn’t take him long after starting out to realise that there were structural issues in the relationship that too many services providers have with their customers. Too often work was transactional in nature and lacking in strategic energy. A desire to address this led him to embark on the entrepreneurial path and launch Excite Technology Services in May 2008.
The driving energy behind Excite Technology Services was simple: To excite businesses from SME through enterprise in the same way that Bryan himself finds the innovative and value-building use of IT to be exciting.
Under Bryan’s ongoing and visionary leadership, Excite has grown beyond a single services organisation. Through acquisitions and mergers it is now one of Australia’s most significant groups of IT services companies, and has grown from being a boutique service desk operation to become a genuine end-to-end provider of cloud-based managed services.
Bryan Saba
CEO & Managing Director
Neil Sinclair
Non Executive Director
Neil holds an impressive business background with roles in People and Culture, Technology Management and Mechanical engineering.
He is currently the Head of People and Culture with Australia’s most trusted and respected logistics partner, Pacific National, where he is pivotal in guiding the business through transformation of its culture. Neil has also held senior positions with Microsoft Australia, Dell Computers, Datacom Group.
As Neil joins the board, he will actively contribute to the organisation’s growth and success.
He brings a fresh perspective on our most important assets, our employees. His critical thinking and creative problem solving allow him to identify emerging opportunities and mitigate potential risks.
Neil’s diverse career covers mechanical engineering, leadership, technology and innovation, quality assurance and corporate governance and more recently, cultural, and human capital development.
His extensive experience and forward-thinking approach make him an invaluable asset to the organisation.
Neil Sinclair
CEO & Managing Director
Steven Bliim
Chairman
Steven is the Non-Executive Director at Excite Technology Services.
With over 12 years of experience in both Australia and the US, Steven is responsible for capital planning and forecasting, treasury management, global financial reporting and statutory compliance.
Since joining the company in 2012, he has played a key role in the group’s expansion into the US, UK and Europe, along with the reverse acquisition of Prime Minerals Limited and subsequent re-listing of the company on the ASX in November 2014.
Prior to joining the company, Steven worked in business services and tax advisory for over seven years, consulting primarily to small-to-medium enterprises and primary production businesses.
Steven is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and holds a Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting from the University of South Australia.
Steven Bliim
CEO & Managing Director
Management Team
Mark Hitchcock
Head of Operations
Mark Hitchcock is our Head of Operations. He founded Virtual Information Technology (then rebranded to VIT Cyber Security) in 2016 with the aim of providing superior and secure ICT solutions alongside an elevated customer experience to customers Australia wide.
Self-motivated and forward-thinking, Mark aspires to become a thought leader in the ICT Industry and is passionate about ensuring customers meet their strategic vision and goals. A vision that he also applies to his employees. Over the past 15 years Mark has gained experience working in many sectors such as Local/State/Federal Government, Healthcare, Not for Profit, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Aerospace. He maintains a well-rounded knowledge, holding numerous certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Fortinet covering a broad range of solutions.
Mark is extremely interested in ICT Security. He is trained in multiple SIEM products, has experience with basically every modern AV product and takes a security-first approach to systems engineering. He also has experience with Sophos and FortiGate Unified Threat Management Gateways.
In his spare time Mark likes to search for cutting edge technologies to improve the Excite Technology Services ICT Security armoury and listen to podcasts to keep up to date with the latest trends.
Mark Hitchcock
CEO & Managing Director
Hugh Stodart
General Manager
Hugh is an experienced and outcome-focused product portfolio manager with substantial expertise in security services and solutions for enterprise, small business and government.
At Excite Technology Services, he is responsible for the group technology strategy and product portfolio. Through logical, market-focused analysis, Hugh sets and implements the strategy for new products, manages the lifecycle and optimisation of existing solutions, and is accountable for the revenue and profitability of the group companies.
Prior to this role, Hugh managed Telstra’s enterprise security product portfolio for 15 years and drove the development of managed and cloud services from inception to a broad portfolio. Additionally, he spent time within Telstra Research and Development Management, commercialising intellectual property developed by Telstra, and Telstra Ventures (a venture capital subsidiary) where he evaluated investment opportunities and managed seed capital investments for start-ups.
Hugh began his career as a graduate with the Defence Signals Directorate, an intelligence agency within the Australian Department of Defence, and then worked for the Privacy Commission as a research officer. He holds a Bachelor of Law (Hons) and Bachelor of Science (Hons) from Australian National University, and an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
