Who We Are
The privacy, data protection, and AI governance firm built for enterprise-scale complexity.
DPOBOARD is a privacy services and regulatory compliance firm offering technical, legal, and operational expertise to organizations navigating the regulatory, technical, and reputational stakes of operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Our Story
From a technology and compliance startup to a firm built for enterprise complexity.
DPOBOARD was founded in 2016 as a technology and compliance firm. Over the years since, we've evolved into a regulatory compliance and technology consulting firm with artificial intelligence at our core — built to meet the expectations of multinational organizations and large corporations operating across jurisdictions, not just a single regulatory regime.
We offer technical, regulatory, legal, and operational design, tools, solutions, and support to companies across every industry. Our focus is baking privacy into the very fabric of an organization — its services, its products, its decisions — built around data lifecycle management from collection through deletion. We believe privacy should be part of any organization's DNA, and that privacy compliance is how organizations earn trust: by protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, without regard to their status.
Trust isn't assumed — it's built. Organizations earn it by establishing real trust principles, being transparent about data collection practices, and giving individuals genuine, informed control over their own data.
Giving Back
We believe in giving back to our community in the most meaningful way possible, through a range of ongoing initiatives — because a firm built on trust and protecting individuals' rights has a responsibility that extends beyond client work.
Grounded in practice
Our guidance reflects how regulators actually enforce today — not just how frameworks read on paper.
Built to be defensible
We design programs that produce a clear evidentiary trail: documented decisions, assessments, and controls.
Partnered, not outsourced
We work alongside your legal, engineering, and executive teams so the program survives beyond any single engagement.
Leadership
The people leading DPOBOARD.
Executive Leadership
Tobi Kofi Kano
Chief Executive Officer
Kotryna Vanagas
EVP, General Counsel
Bruce Johnson
EVP, Chief Operating Officer
Lubanzi Khumalo
EVP, Chief Technology Officer
Lydia Kene-Williams
EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer
Board of Directors
Jakub Prochazka
Board Member and Chair
Nicole Lee
Board Member
Sean Jang
Board Member
We work across data privacy, data protection, and AI governance as one connected discipline.
See how each pillar comes together on our Services page.