Our People
Our senior innovation and leadership team
Mobiddiction’s leadership team brings more than a decade of delivery across Government and Enterprise programs, with deep capability in architecture, engineering, secure cloud operations, cyber security and emerging technology.
How We Work
Hands on from strategy through to steady state
We work closely with our clients’ program and technology leaders to turn complex goals into clear strategies, design the solution architecture to support them, deliver the technology, and keep it running at a high standard over many years.
Our leadership group is hands on in architecture, delivery governance, risk management and operational oversight. Their combined experience shapes every engagement we deliver.
The people who run your program
Senior leaders who stay involved in architecture, security and delivery for the life of a program.
Mike Vasavada
Founder and CEO
Mike founded Mobiddiction in 2012 and leads corporate strategy, major client relationships, commercial management and the evolution of our service model. He brings more than 25 years across digital programs, large enterprise transformations and public sector initiatives, and has served as a judge for the International ECHO Awards.
Iain Chalmers
CTO and Chief Information Security Officer
Iain joined Mobiddiction in 2015. He leads our Information Security Management System and oversees our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, security governance and risk management. His background spans more than three decades in development, IT consulting, enterprise platform security, cloud infrastructure and long-running government programs. He is a certified drone operator with deep experience in geospatial and mapping technology.
Hamsa Chandrappa
Vice President, Engineering and Delivery
Hamsa joined Mobiddiction in 2014 and has shaped the engineering and delivery culture behind our long-term client programs, with a speciality in mobile. She leads our software engineering, spatial technology, DevOps and support teams, and brings more than 20 years of experience delivering platforms across embedded, web, mobile, cloud, mapping and enterprise integration.
Josh Lawson
VP of Innovation
Josh directs Mobiddiction’s work in AI, emerging technology and R&D. Since joining in 2019 he has driven our AI-supported engineering, intelligent automation, spatial data insights and new methods for indoor and outdoor wayfinding, so emerging technology delivers real value rather than novelty.
What our leadership team brings
A home-grown, 100% Australian-owned company, started in Sydney in 2012.
- More than a decade of continuous delivery across Government and Enterprise
- Platforms that have run for five, eight and ten years or more
- Strong governance, secure architecture and transparent communication
- Oversight of our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified ISMS
- Continuous improvement across engineering, cloud operations and delivery
Leadership timeline
Mobiddiction is founded
CEO Mike Vasavada founds Mobiddiction, with a focus on practical digital transformation and long-term technology partnerships.
Wild About Whales begins
Delivery of Wild About Whales for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service begins: a statewide program of mobile platforms, citizen science, mapping and wildlife data that runs until 2021.
SharkSmart and the Sydney Royal Easter Show
Hamsa joins as a mobile specialist engineer. Work begins on the Sydney Royal Easter Show and the NSW SharkSmart program, which becomes one of the longest-running public safety and geospatial platforms in NSW and continues today.
Iain Chalmers joins and FishSmart commences
Iain Chalmers joins as CTO and Chief Information Security Officer. The NSW Government FishSmart program commences and is still active, delivering real-time mapping, geospatial rules and mobile platforms for recreational fishers.
NSW Survey Marks and the Forestry Corporation of NSW
NSW Survey Marks launches for NSW Spatial Services, and our mapping, RTK GNSS, field mobility and spatial data work with the Forestry Corporation of NSW begins. Both continue today.
Get Permission for hunters
We deliver the Get Permission mobile service for the NSW DPI Game Licensing Unit, giving hunters access to rules, permissions and compliance information.
Innovation, drones and the feed calculator
Josh Lawson joins as VP of Innovation and Hamsa becomes Vice President, Engineering and Delivery. The Drought and Supplementary Feed Calculator launches for farmers and land managers. We first use drones and mission planning software for aerial imagery, deliver a display village map for HomeWorld, and take over development and managed service of the Farmgate Auctions platform.
Our first 360-degree VR platform
We deliver our first 360-degree VR and engagement platform, for Genesys’ “Journey to Sydney” global event.
Stay Upright, REEF 2021 and a program milestone
Stay Upright engages us to modernise its IT platforms, brand and website. Genesys engages us to deliver REEF 2021 as a 360-degree VR experience, with our team shooting content on the Great Barrier Reef. Wild About Whales completes after eight years of continuous operation.
Whale Watch relaunches
With permission from NPWS, we relaunch Wild About Whales as Whale Watch, a free public app and a showcase of our geospatial and mapping capability.
Memorial parks mapping
InvoCare engages us to modernise and standardise mapping across its memorial parks. Our drone and 360-degree photography teams visit 14 venues across NSW and Queensland, and we create a platform and a consistent graphical language for digital and printed maps.
PatientVR launches with NSW Health
PatientVR launches in the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District and in Queensland at Logan palliative care, and continues today.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, RocketCrew VR and VapingVR
Our Information Security Management System is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022. RocketCrew VR launches in Starlight Express rooms with the Starlight Children’s Foundation, VapingVR enters evaluation with the Drug and Alcohol service at Nepean Hospital, and we create a real-time AI analytics tool for Mapiddiction.
Mobiconnect becomes M4
M4, our multi-tenant platform, is the managed core that Mapiddiction, SharkSmart and PatientVR run on today.
Team Mobiddiction
G’day, hola, halo, namaste, merhaba, zdravo
Behind the leadership group sits a team of designers, mobile and web engineers, DevOps specialists, product specialists, and brand and communications people.
What sets us apart is our understanding of how technology can bring customer experiences to life. Pop in for a cuppa.
Talk to the people who run your program
Architecture, delivery governance, risk management and operational oversight, on M4 and for the long term. We have done it since 2012.