Eliminating Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt!
Why we are DIFFERENT and how we drive YOUR success
Mercury Risk and Compliance, Inc. (“Mercury”) was founded in 2023. Its founders are internationally-recognized industry pioneers in Cyber Risk Quantification, Automated Compliance Efficacy Testing and aligning Cyber Security, Cyber Risk and Technology Risk with overall Business Strategy and Operations.
Significantly, Mercury’s methodologies, frameworks, and technology provide you with a profound, industry-leading, proven and scalable approach.
The result is delivering a business-aligned strategic and operational decision support platform, that supports your strategic objectives and that provides a defensible, data-centric, and information-centric decisioning platform, supporting your commitments to stakeholders, customers, and regulators.
Our Founders and Executive Leadership Team have deep, international industry expertise and a track record of success in designing and deploying Governance, Risk and Compliance functions and solutions, incorporating automation, machine learning and Generative AI, across multiple industries.
Deep industry experience includes Global Telecommunications, Financial Services, Energy, Gas & Oil, Manufacturing, Technology, Social Media, Healthcare, IT, Software, Outsourcing, Government and Military applications.
Incorporated in Delaware, USA, the company’s Corporate Head Office is in Austin Texas, USA and along with its partners, has operations across the USA (including New York, New Jersey, Boston, California Bay Area), the UK, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australasia.
Gavin Anthony Grounds
CEO and Co-founder
Gavin Grounds joins Mercury with extensive experience in Technology, Cyber Security, IT Engineering and operations and is a globally-recognized thought leader in Risk Management, Risk Quantification and Cyber Security Strategy & Operations.
He is the author of several patents including Cyber Risk Quantification, Cross-jurisdictional Taxation and Remittance, and Micro-payments processing.
He has served in executive leadership positions at companies such as Meta, Verizon, DXC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP. He has deep and broad international experience in multiple industries, including Technology, Telecommunications, Social-media, Gas & Oil, Energy, Manufacturing, Financial, Government and Military.
Gavin has successfully launched, grown and operated several technology companies in the UK and in the USA, including a software house developing plant operations for Europe’s largest toxic waste incineration and waste disposal sites, automating some of Europe’s and Scandinavia’s largest industrial weighing, quarrying, and distillery operations, as well as two cyber security consulting firms and a payments processing platform in the USA.
He holds an MBA (GPA 4.0), a Bachelor’s with Honors in Computer Science, is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered IT Professional, an accredited Board Director, and is also a Fellow of the BCS (Chartered Institute for IT.)
Grace E. Beason
Co-founder and Board Member
Grace Beason is an accomplished, recognized, thought leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance – with a particular focus on the Cyber Security and Technology Risk domains.
In her career, she has held global leadership positions across 60+ countries and in Industries ranging from Healthcare to Software, Transportation, Manufacturing, Finance and Telecommunications.
She has held leadership roles in organizations such as Guidewire Software, DXC, HPE, HP, EDS and Massachusetts’ Department of Mental Health (DMH)
She holds an MBA (4.0 GPA) and multiple Masters and Bachelor’s degrees.