Xalient

Xalient

Xalient was established in Leeds in 2015 by Sherry Vaswani, who serves as Group Chief Executive Officer. The firm was built to address enterprise demand for identity-centric network transformation and has since expanded to include delivery hubs in the United Kingdom and North America. Early growth was anchored in advisory and consulting mandates for large organizations moving from legacy perimeter-based architectures to cloud-first identity and access management frameworks. The firm's strategy integrates advisory, implementation, and ongoing managed services across identity governance, zero-trust network access, software-defined wide-area networking, and secure access service edge. Xalient operates as both an independent consultant and a managed security services provider, enabling it to capture relationships at the project stage and convert them into recurring managed-revenue streams. Its client base spans financial services, manufacturing, and retail sectors, with a geographical footprint concentrated in the UK and the United States. In November 2023, Xalient acquired the identity practice of US-based ProofID, expanding its North American managed services capability. Xalient employs a hybrid go-to-market model that combines organic project wins with targeted acquisitions to enter new geographies or add adjacent technical competencies. The ProofID identity practice acquisition in late 2023 was structured as a capability-bolt-on, bringing additional certified identity architects and ongoing managed identity contracts under Xalient's operating umbrella. The firm has also invested in building its own intellectual property — notably the Xalient Identity Intelligence Platform, a proprietary analytics layer that integrates with existing identity fabric from Microsoft and other vendors to provide unified governance reporting. Structurally, Xalient differs from generic IT consultancies by maintaining a dedicated managed services practice that runs alongside its advisory and project-delivery business. This dual model creates a recurring revenue base unusual among identity-specialist firms of its size. The organizational architecture also separates vendor-agnostic advisory work from implementation and ongoing operations, with the Group CEO retaining direct operational oversight across both units rather than delegating to separate divisional CEOs — a span-of-control design intended to preserve cross-practice consistency as the firm scales through acquisition.