Kaushal Sutaria

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Kaushal Sutaria is the founder and CEO of Sterling International Consulting and of its sister companies Lakshy Management Consultant Pvt. Ltd., Cyber Vantage 360, Effivity Technologies and Vegam AI — a group working across more than 60 countries, with over 8,100 client engagements since 2002. He is a certified ISO Lead Auditor (BSI and TÜV SÜD) and has spent more than two decades implementing, auditing and preparing management systems for certification across industries and geographies. He reviews the ISO guidance published on iso-philippines.com.

Credentials

  • Lead Auditor certifications through BSI and TÜV SÜD covering ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 45001, ISO 22000, ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 50001.
  • Practitioner across the wider GRC field: SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and ESG/sustainability frameworks, delivered alongside ISO programmes as integrated management systems.
  • Education: BE in Production Engineering and an MBA in Operations and Marketing.
  • Experience: business process consulting since 2002 — gap analysis, implementation, internal audit and certification-body preparation, first as a consultant and then leading the firms that deliver it.

Role on this site

Kaushal reviews the standards content published on iso-philippines.com — the certification guides, the ISO 9001:2026 and ISO 14001:2026 migration material, the ISO Standards Revision Tracker and the ISO news coverage. The editorial rule is simple: every clause reference, deadline and revision claim is checked against the standard as issued and against ISO, IAF and accreditation-body publications before it appears here. Where a point is still open, the page says so rather than guessing.

How Sterling delivers in the Philippines

Sterling International Consulting works from three Philippine offices — the Makati head office, Cebu and Davao — under President Asuncion Villanueva. Projects are led by Sterling’s own lead auditors and implementers, on-site, from gap analysis through certification audit and beyond: the system is built to be run by the client’s people, not by the consultant, so it outlives the engagement. The same approach runs across the group’s 8,100-plus engagements worldwide, and the evidence sits on this site: signed client feedback letters and a client list that runs from multinationals to five-person Filipino firms.

The companies

  • Sterling International Consulting (2009) — GRC, ISO, ESG, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR consulting across 55+ countries, with a focus on Dubai and the GCC, South East Asia and Australia. Four service brands: Design™, Drive™, Sustain™ and Automate™.
  • Lakshy Management Consultant Pvt. Ltd. (India, 2003) — ISO consulting and certification advisory.
  • Cyber Vantage 360 (Philippines) — cybersecurity, data privacy, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS.
  • Effivity Technologies (2016) — low-code/no-code GRC and ISO automation software used in 50+ countries, built from the problems met in the field.
  • Vegam AI (2025) — AI-native business process automation.

On shortcut certification

Kaushal is an outspoken critic of certificates sold without a working system behind them, of consultants who subcontract delivery to whoever is available, and of compliance kept for the paperwork alone. A certificate earned that way fails the first serious customer audit and the first real incident. That position shapes what Sterling will and will not take on, and it shapes the advice on this site.

Asuncion Villanueva — President, Sterling International Consulting

Asuncion Villanueva is the President of Sterling International Consulting, with 12 years of experience in quality (QMS), information security (ISMS) and health, safety and environment (HSE) management systems. She specialises in business development, project management and people management, and in setting up businesses and growing them. She directs project delivery across the Makati, Cebu and Davao offices.

Connect

Kaushal Sutaria on LinkedIn · kaushalsutaria.com

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