The roles you have to fill
Some obligations cannot be met by a policy alone. They require a named person to hold a role, answer for it, and be reachable when a regulator, a customer or an incident calls for them. For a growing number of organisations that person now sits across three distinct duties, and each one is easy to underestimate until it is needed. priviness holds these roles on your behalf, so the accountability is real, staffed and independent from day one.
AI Responsible Officer
As organisations adopt and build AI, someone has to own the obligations that come with it, classifying systems, checking their use against the EU AI Act and equivalent regimes, keeping the technical and governance documentation current, and stepping in when a tool behaves in ways no one intended. If your firm procures AI, embeds it in decisions, or offers it to customers, this oversight belongs to a named officer, not a shared inbox. We hold that role with a working understanding of both the technology and the law that now attaches to it.
Data Protection Officer / Chief Privacy Officer
Where the GDPR or an equivalent regime applies, many organisations must appoint a Data Protection Officer, and even where it is not strictly mandatory, a Chief Privacy Officer gives personal-data accountability a clear home. The role advises on processing, oversees compliance, handles data subject requests, and is the point of contact for the supervisory authority. It has to be independent, informed and free from conflicts. Outsourcing it to us keeps that independence intact while giving you someone who has done the work many times over.
Territorial / EU Representative
If you serve people in a territory where you have no establishment, the law often requires a compliant point of presence there. The clearest example is the EU representative that organisations outside the EU must appoint to receive enquiries from individuals and regulators on their behalf. We provide that presence, a real, addressable representative for the territories you serve, so you can operate across borders without a local entity for every market.
Why outsource the role
A permanent, suitably experienced officer is expensive, and for most medium-sized firms the workload does not justify a full-time salary, benefits and management overhead. Outsourcing gives you the seniority you need at a fraction of the cost, matched to the actual demands of the role.
- Independence: an external officer is not marking their own homework. There is no internal reporting line to compromise a judgement, which is precisely what these roles are meant to guarantee.
- Breadth of experience: we bring cross-jurisdiction practice that internal staff, however capable, rarely accumulate. If you operate in several territories, that global-but-grounded view closes gaps a single-market hire would miss.
- Continuity and cover: the role does not lapse when one person is on leave or leaves the business. It is held by a firm, so there is always someone in post and reachable.
How the engagement works
We take the role on as an ongoing, proportionate and discreet engagement. You get a named point of contact who learns your business, attends what they need to, and is available when something arises, not a queue ticket. We scope the commitment to your size and risk, and it scales as you grow, so you are never paying for oversight you do not use. Where a role sits alongside others you carry, we join them up rather than duplicating effort. Standing behind all of it is an evidence trail that shows the role was held and exercised properly.
Who it’s for
These arrangements suit boards and senior operational or HR leaders in medium-to-large financial services and gaming businesses operating across borders, organisations regulated enough to need the roles held well, but not so large that a full internal function is warranted for each one. Before appointing us, many clients ask for an independent assessment to establish exactly which roles they need and where the gaps sit, and pair the appointment with training so the wider team understands what the officer is there to protect.