Who is Certified By?
Born out of necessity
family valuesentrepreneurial spiritcommunity mindedinclusive & diverse
The Team
The Certifiedby story is one of family business spanning 3 generations, and a company culture built around professionalism, accountability and personality.
Long before the internet & social media, Neil Wood (powered by the matriarch Cathy Wood) had a vision to unite the world of debt collection, so in the 80’s he founded TCM Group, and later GCS Credit, with a footprint of partners in more than 100 countries. Credit Management led to Risk Management, and GCS Risk was later born, to provide verification, investigation and brand protection services to some of the world largest brands.
Having also built the first of its kind “Global Case Management System (GCMS)”, it became clear compliance & technology were disruptive forces for change, and in 2016 Adam published “the digital disruption of the debt collection industry”, foreseeing some of the trends that dominate business today (ai, chatbots, regtech, etc).
In response to evolving regulatory requirements & digital disruption, Adam and Michael Collyer (RIP) developed the “Global Compliance Requirements Program” (GCRP), a compliance framework & assessment tool for our partners (mostly SMEs) to measure themselves against international best practices of governance, risk, compliance, cyber and data management.
As we rolled out this program to our partners and clients it became obvious there was a much greater need for such a program than just our own. Evidently SMEs and nonprofits across all sectors need help to overcome the cost and complexity of digital transformation and regulatory cpmpliance.
And so, after many iterations CertifiedBy was born. Finally a fit-for-purpose RegTech solution for organisations and the SMEs and nonprofits they work with.
a startup with a soul
celebrating over 100 years of experience in international credit and risk management.
A walk down memory lane
founded total credit management services
an australian based national debt collection, field services & investigation firm.
founded tcm hong kong
the origins of what later became tcm group international, with like minded colleagues in south east asia.
founded tcm group international
expanding the network of like minded colleagues from south east asia into the uk, us, mena, latam and the baltics & cis.
incorporated global credit solutions pty ltd
having existed tcm group, this saw the evolution neils vision to unite the world of credit & collections.
launched gcs risk management solutions
australian based international verification, investigation and brand protection services provider to some of the worlds biggest brands.
built the global case management system (gcms)
an industry first, self-funded technology platform enabling the transfer and management of cases, data and money in a secure environment.
co founded gcs india
a joint venture project with local partners to develop the emerging credit & risk management industries in india.
co founded gcs ukraine
a joint venture project with local partners to develop the emerging credit & risk management industries in ukraine.
launched the gcs credit community
international credit & collections for the 21st century, with an eye on e-learning, collaboration & disruption.
incorporated gcs risk pl
as part of a restructuring plan developed by external consultants, gcs credit & risk operations were split into two companies
published the "gcrp"
the ‘global compliance requirements program’ was the first of its kind, and the inspiration behind certified by’s grcq [premium] program
launch certified by
Our Braintrust
We know we can’t do this alone.
We thank an extraordinary and diverse world of subject matter experts who’ve shared their time, knowledge and enthusiasm to shape our vision, objectives and priorities.
