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Mukesh Madanlal Gadge

Founder, Promoter & Managing Director, BDI & Brand Defence Academy

Entrepreneur and governance, risk and compliance practitioner with nearly two decades in regulatory compliance, ethics, investigations, forensic technology and legal technology.

At a glance

~20years in GRC, ethics and legal technology
500+enterprises with GRC programmes he designed
250+organisations served through Lexcare
40+countries covered by Lexcare clients
6ventures co-founded, including BDI and BDA
4SaaS platforms built at DB Tech

Profile

Mukesh is an entrepreneur and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) practitioner with nearly two decades in regulatory compliance, ethics, risk, investigations, forensic technology and legal technology.

He co-founded Lexcare, Lexschool, WhistleSentinel and Digital Business Technology (DB Tech), which builds FraudSentinel360, WhistleSentinel, Mecard.me and BLOCCERT. Through Lexcare he has delivered compliance management and advisory to more than 250 organisations whose clients operate in over 40 countries.

At BDI he co-leads the Risk, Compliance & Regulatory practice and the Governance Tools & Technologies practice, bringing the speak-up, case-management and compliance platforms that BDI deploys and runs for clients on one secure stack. DB Tech's platforms are built to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 standards.

Through Lexschool he has built Certified Compliance Professional, POSH and Legal-for-Non-Legal programmes, experience that now feeds the Brand Defence Academy.

Areas of expertise

  • Regulatory compliance programmes
  • Ethics and whistle-blowing systems
  • Investigations and forensic technology
  • Fraud case management
  • Legal technology and contract tools
  • Compliance and POSH training

Experience

  • Founder & Promoter, Brand Defence & Integrity and Brand Defence Academy
  • Managing Director, Digital Business Technology (DB Tech), 2020–
  • Co-founder & CEO, WhistleSentinel
  • Co-founder, Lexcare
  • Co-founder, Lexschool
  • Director, Brand Defence Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Qualifications

  • Certified Ethical Hacker
  • Certified Forensic Investigator
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