FRACTIONAL DPO
Data Privacy Officer Consulting
Data privacy isn’t just a compliance obligation.
It’s a competitive requirement.
Executive-level data protection leadership — building the privacy program, managing regulatory obligations, and keeping your business trusted by clients and regulators across every jurisdiction you operate in.
✽ MOST COMPANIES NEED A DPO. FEW KNOW WHAT ONE ACTUALLY DOES.
Privacy leadership your business can rely on
A Data Privacy Officer is not a legal role. It’s a strategic and operational role — responsible for how your organization collects, stores, processes, and protects personal data. Under GDPR, many organizations are legally required to appoint one. Under HIPAA and CCPA, the obligations differ but are equally serious. A Fractional DPO gives you that leadership without the full-time overhead.
We act as your embedded privacy executive — managing regulatory obligations, representing your organization to authorities and data subjects, designing your data protection program from the ground up, and ensuring your privacy posture holds up when it matters most: during an audit, a breach, or a client’s vendor review.
For organizations operating across the US, EU, and UK, data privacy compliance is not a single framework — it’s a matrix of obligations that change by jurisdiction, data type, and use case. We navigate that complexity so you don’t have to.
The frameworks we work across
EU / UK GDPR
European & UK data protection regulation
EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
Trans-Atlantic data transfer compliance
CCPA / CPRA
California Consumer Privacy Act
HIPAA
US healthcare data privacy
FDA 21 CFR
Clinical data & life sciences
EU AI Act
AI-specific data privacy obligations
What we do as your Fractional DPO
REGULATORY REPRESENTATION & MANAGEMENT
Regulatory Authority Liaison
Act as your organization’s point of contact with data protection regulators — managing communications, responding to inquiries, and representing your interests during investigations.
Data Subject Rights Management
Manage Subject Access Requests (SARs) end-to-end — ensuring timely, compliant responses that meet regulatory deadlines across all jurisdictions.
Record of Processing Activities (ROPA)
Build and maintain the comprehensive documentation of how your organization processes personal data — a legal requirement under GDPR and a foundation for all other compliance activities.
Data Breach Notification Management
Lead your organization’s response to data privacy breaches — including regulatory notification within GDPR’s 72-hour window, data subject communication, and post-incident remediation.
RISK ASSESSMENT & COMPLIANCE
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
Supervise DPIAs for high-risk processing activities — identifying privacy risks before new systems or processes go live, not after a regulator raises them.
Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
Evaluate new projects, systems, and vendor relationships for privacy risk — embedding privacy-by-design into your organization’s technology and business decisions.
Cross-Border Data Transfer Compliance
Navigate the legal mechanisms for international data transfers — Standard Contractual Clauses, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and adequacy decisions — across all jurisdictions where your business operates.
Vendor & Third-Party Privacy Review
Assess the data privacy posture of your vendors and third-party processors — because your compliance obligation doesn’t end at your perimeter.
DATA PROTECTION PROGRAM DESIGN
Data Protection & Privacy Plan
Design and implement a comprehensive data protection program — covering policies, procedures, technical controls, and staff training across your entire organization.
Privacy-by-Design Implementation
Embed data privacy principles into the design of new systems, products, and business processes — so compliance is built in from the start, not retrofitted at cost.
Data Classification & Lineage
Establish robust data classification protocols and lineage tracking — giving your organization clear visibility into what personal data you hold, where it lives, and how it flows.
Privacy Training & Awareness
Role-appropriate privacy training for staff at every level — from frontline employees handling personal data to executives making data strategy decisions.
AI DATA PRIVACY & GOVERNANCE
AI Regulatory Alignment
Compliance strategies aligned to the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 (AI Management Systems), ISO/IEC 23894 (AI Risk Management), and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework — so your AI posture meets the standards your regulators and enterprise clients are already requiring.
AI Principles Framework
Align your organization’s AI practices with the OECD AI Principles and FDA AI/ML Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) Guiding Principles — critical for life sciences, clinical research, and any regulated industry deploying AI in patient-facing or clinical workflows.
AI Data Privacy Compliance
Ensure GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA compliance for AI-processed personal data — covering consent frameworks, data minimization in AI training, retention obligations, and the rights of data subjects whose information is processed by automated systems.
AI Privacy Impact Assessments
Conduct privacy impact assessments specifically for AI systems — evaluating the data protection implications of automated decision-making, profiling, and cross-border AI data flows before deployment.
Data privacy and information security are inseparable. See our Virtual CISO page for AI threat modeling and security architecture, and our Fractional CIO page for AI adoption strategy and governance policy design.
Ready to build a privacy program
your clients and regulators trust?
Schedule a free 30-minute discovery call. We’ll assess your current data privacy posture and identify the regulatory obligations that matter most for your specific business.
