Our People
Senior expertise for decisions that matter
IG-Smart brings together experienced specialists across governance, privacy, cybersecurity, AI assurance, healthcare, clinical safety and programme delivery.
Our model is deliberately senior-led. Clients work with practitioners who understand not only regulatory requirements and technical controls, but how governance operates in practice — across boards, complex organisations, regulated environments, technology programmes and critical services.
Collectively, our team brings experience spanning the NHS and wider health and social care sector, multinational organisations, major digital transformation programmes, consumer data environments, cybersecurity and resilience, regulatory compliance and executive assurance.
We assemble the right expertise around each engagement, giving clients access to specialist capability without unnecessary layers of consultancy.
Senior practitioners
Experience for consequential decisions
Michael Abtar
LLB (Hons), PG.Dip.Law, Cert. DPO
CEO and Founder
Governance, risk and assurance specialist with more than 18 years' experience spanning privacy, cyber resilience, AI governance, digital transformation, healthcare and complex regulated organisations.
- Governance, Risk & Assurance
- Privacy
- Cyber
Professor Dame Donna Kinnair DBE
Chair, Independent Advisory Board
Senior healthcare and public-policy leader providing independent perspective across governance, leadership, patient safety, organisational assurance and healthcare transformation.
- Healthcare Leadership
- Governance
- Patient Safety
Dr Bright Mawudor
PhD
Senior Cyber Security Consultant
Cybersecurity specialist with 10+ years' experience and founder of Africahackon, combining security engineering and technical assurance with expertise in cyber governance, resilience, vulnerability management and organisational risk.
- Cybersecurity
- Security Engineering
- Vulnerability Management
Shaista Peart
BA (Hons), CIPP/E
Senior Data Privacy & Information Governance Consultant
Privacy and information governance specialist advising organisations on data protection, DPO responsibilities and practical governance across healthcare and regulated environments.
- Data Protection
- Information Governance
- DPO Services
Himanshu Desai
MSc, MBA, MRPharmS
Strategic Health Informatics Leader & Clinical Safety Officer
Healthcare informatics and clinical safety specialist with extensive experience across NHS, healthcare technology, clinical applications and international health systems.
- Clinical Safety
- Healthcare Informatics
- Digital Health
Julia Andrade
BA
Head of Client & Programme Success
A key point of contact for clients from prospective-client scoping through programme and project delivery, coordinating practitioners, workstreams and stakeholders so engagements stay aligned to client requirements and are delivered with quality.
- Client Success
- Programme Delivery
- Cross-Functional Coordination
Expertise without unnecessary layers
Our clients engage IG-Smart when governance, technology and regulation intersect — and when the consequences of getting those decisions wrong matter.
We provide access to experienced practitioners, multidisciplinary expertise and independent assurance, assembled around the needs of each organisation.