EU:EU AI Act — high-risk obligations (Annex III) deferred to Dec 2027 by the Digital OmnibusUSA:US state privacy laws now reach ~20 states — Indiana, Kentucky & Rhode Island live as of 2026Maryland:Maryland Online Data Privacy Act now effective — strictest US data-minimization rules yetCalifornia:CCPA ADMT, risk-assessment & cyber-audit rules in force — ADMT opt-out required by Jan 2027Colorado:Colorado AI Act delayed to Jan 2027 and narrowed — algorithmic-discrimination duty of care droppedIndia:India DPDP Rules notified — consent-manager registration from Nov 2026, fiduciary duties May 2027EU:GDPR enforcement intensifies — AI-training data & dark-pattern fines on the riseGlobal:Cross-border transfer scrutiny grows — DPF, SCCs & data-localization rules tightening
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The team

The people who've been on the wrong side of a regulator's question. That's why they built this.

Privacy, AI risk, and compliance practitioners who spent careers inside regulated data programs — banking, healthcare, pharma, insurance. DataSafeguard is the platform they wanted when they were still on the customer side.

4
Founding members
7
Advisory board
50+
Years combined
500+
Enterprises served

01 · FOUNDING TEAM

Founding team.

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MR Sahu

Chairman

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Sudhir Sahu

Founder & CEO

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Lee Nocon

Chief Technology Officer

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Swarnam Dash

Product Manager

02 · LEADERSHIP · USA

Leadership team — USA.

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Ajit Sahu

Director of Engineering

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Tedra Chen

Corporate Manager

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Sudhir Sahu

Founder & CEO

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Lee Nocon

Chief Technology Officer

03 · ADVISORY BOARD

Advisory board.

Regulators, chief data officers, privacy executives, and policy leaders who guide DataSafeguard's direction on data privacy compliance and synthetic fraud prevention.

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Jay Como

Financial Services Executive

Jay Como, an Executive Advisor, brings extensive leadership experience from his roles in global financial institutions. With a background as Chief Data Officer at several major banking and financial services organizations, Jay's expertise in strategic data management and governance is a valuable asset to our mission.

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Joe Clemons

Executive Advisor

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Dr. Amar Patnaik

Senior Advisor

Dr. Amar Patnaik served as a Member of Parliament (2019–24) in the Rajya Sabha from Odisha. During his tenure he was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, the Committee on Public Undertakings, and the Rajya Sabha Committee on Subordinate Legislation, and served as a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 — a demonstrably influential role in shaping India's data privacy legislation.

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Rameesh Kailasam

Executive Advisor

Mr. Rameesh Kailasam brings over 27 years of experience in industry and government, with expertise spanning leadership, strategy, policy formulation, business development, and crisis management. His work has driven transformative change in sectors such as ICT, Education, Health, e-Governance, Cyber Security, and Sustainability.

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Kevin Jurovich

Executive Advisor

Kevin Jurovich is the Co-Founder and CEO of Circles, a discovery app combining live video, real-time capacity updates, and the functionality of TikTok and Yelp to transform how people experience nightlife and social venues.

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Curt Waltrip

Global Chief Privacy Officer, DPO

Curt Waltrip has served as a Global Chief Privacy Officer, Data Protection Officer, and AI Governance executive with 16+ years building and scaling enterprise privacy programs at Fortune 500 and regulated global organizations. As CDPO at Boeing he led a team of six including four attorneys, drove $1B+ in regulatory risk mitigation, and served as primary contact for EU data protection authorities.

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John Papazian

Advisory Board Moderator

Join the team

Privacy practitioner, ML engineer, GRC lead? We should talk.

We hire people who've sat across the table from a regulator and want to build the tools they wished they had.