About

Securing Africa's digital future.

We started nexaya because African businesses deserve world-class security built for African realities, and because we were tired of watching that gap be filled from a distance by people who had never worked here.

The nexaya team
Why we exist

Security frameworks are written for environments with reliable power, abundant bandwidth, and one regulator. Most of our clients have none of those three. A control that assumes constant connectivity fails on a Monday morning. A compliance programme designed for one jurisdiction breaks the moment you open an office in the next country. And an incident at 03:00 in Lagos does not wait for an office in another hemisphere to open.

So we built for the conditions we work in. Not a global template with a regional label on it.

What we do differently
01

We build capability, not dependency

Every engagement transfers knowledge to your team. We document what we build, train the people who will run it, and measure our success partly by how much less you need us next year. A consultancy that makes itself indispensable has confused its interests with yours.

02

We say no

If a system should be secured rather than replaced, we will tell you, even where the replacement is the larger contract. If a tool you already own does the job, we will configure it instead of selling you another. Trust is the whole business.

03

We are accountable locally

Registered entities, local staff, local numbers, and people you can meet before you sign. When something goes wrong, there is a name and an office, not a support portal.

04

Aligned with continental progress

With teams in Morocco, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Egypt, we are not outside consultants. We are your neighbours, and the digital economy these strategies describe is the one our own businesses depend on.

The strategy we work alongside
Morocco Digital 2030, the national strategy for digital economic modernisation.
Nigeria The National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy, and the e-government programme.
Ivory Coast The national digital development strategy and the ARTCI regulatory framework.
Egypt Digital Egypt, the national digital transformation programme.
African Union The Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa, 2020 – 2030.
Leadership & team

Meet the people who would run your engagement.

You can talk to any of them before you sign anything.

CI
Chika Ikenga
Chairman
RB
Rachid Boutachdat
Chief executive officer
OB
Omar Benkirane
Advisor
ZR
Ziyaad Ramdianee
Head of cybersecurity
RM
Rezki El Mokaddam
Head of marketing and communication
IZ
Ilyas Zaghloul
Business operations manager
HD
Hamid Driouch
Business relationship manager
NA
Noura Abdalmoumni
Executive business coordinator
UT
Ufuoma Topenuda
User testing and documentation
NH
Neima Hlou
Cybersecurity analyst
AA
Aymane El Aboussi
Digital marketer
LI
Layla Izaar
Content marketer
Careers

We are hiring. Help us secure Africa's digital economy.

If you would rather build the security infrastructure your own market runs on than support someone else's from a distance, talk to us.

See open roles across our four markets
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