About · The firm

A privacy practice for organisations that cannot get this wrong.

Veltrixair Privacy Unit is the data protection & advisory practice of Veltrixair — built for enterprises operating across KSA, the GCC and India where regulatory exposure is real, scrutiny is rising, and the cost of getting privacy wrong is no longer abstract.

01 — Who we serve

Built for the regulated enterprise.

We work best with organisations whose business model touches personal data at scale — and who are operating across at least one regulated jurisdiction. Our typical client has a compliance function in place but needs senior privacy depth their internal team cannot resource alone.

Multi-jurisdiction operators

Groups operating across two or more of: KSA, UAE, the wider GCC, and India — where every cross-border data flow is a compliance question.

Regulated industries

Healthcare, education, hospitality, media, transportation and B2B commercial — sectors where personal data is the operational substrate, not a side effect.

Boards under audit pressure

Organisations approaching ZATCA, SDAIA, DPDP Board or GCC regulator scrutiny — and the privacy program has to hold up to it.

Acquisition / IPO candidates

Enterprises preparing for diligence where a defensible privacy posture is no longer optional — it's a deal-breaker.

What you can expect from us

Senior practitioners on every engagement — not pyramid staffing. Documented deliverables, evidence-trail discipline, and a deliberate refusal to ship work that cannot survive a regulator review.

What we will tell you up front

If we are not the right fit. If your timeline is unrealistic. If a "compliance" question is actually a governance question. We'd rather lose the engagement than deliver something that won't hold up.


02 — Leadership

The senior practitioners on every engagement.

Veltrixair Privacy is led by a small core of senior privacy professionals with practitioner careers spanning DPO advisory, regulatory liaison, and InfoSec governance. Every engagement has a named senior owner — not a project manager and a deck.

TA

Tarique Ahmad

Chairman / VP — Data Protection & InfoSec Advisory

Practitioner-leader of the Privacy Unit. Designs and signs off the firm's full privacy methodology — DPIA standards, RoPA architecture, and the fractional DPO operating model.

RA

Rehan Afzal

Co-Chairman & COO — Veltrixair Group

Operational lead for the Privacy Unit's delivery engine. Owns engagement governance, SLA discipline, and the cross-jurisdiction execution model.

VP

Senior Privacy Counsel

Practice Lead — Regulatory Advisory

Day-to-day regulatory liaison across KSA SDAIA, UAE Data Office and India DPDP Board — and the named expert on every cross-border transfer engagement.


03 — Recognition

Trusted by the people who matter.

  • CERT-In Empanelled (Application in Progress)
    India — for cyber and privacy advisory
  • SDAIA Alignment Partner Track
    Saudi Arabia — privacy & AI governance
  • ISO 27701 Lead Implementer Certified Team
    Privacy Information Management Systems
  • CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT Practitioners
    IAPP-credentialed advisors on every engagement
04 — Partnerships

Tooling and platform partners.

We are deliberately platform-aware but vendor-neutral. Where a client benefits from privacy automation, consent management or DSR tooling, we deploy through partner platforms — and tell you honestly when no platform is needed at all.

OneTrust
Securiti.ai
TrustArc
Ketch
DataGrail
BigID

05 — Engagement models

Three ways to work with us.

We don't try to fit every problem into the same SOW. Pick the engagement shape that matches the work — or talk to us and we'll tell you which it is.

MODEL A

Project-based engagement

A defined scope of work with a fixed deliverable set — typically readiness assessments, RoPA build, DPIA libraries or full program implementations. SOW-driven, milestone-billed.

  • Best for one-time deliverables
  • Fixed-scope, fixed-fee
  • 4 — 16 week typical duration
MODEL B

DPO-as-a-Service (DPOaaS)

A standing fractional DPO arrangement — senior privacy oversight, regulator liaison, ongoing program management — without the cost or recruitment lead-time of a full-time hire.

  • Monthly retainer, defined SLA
  • Named senior DPO advisor
  • 12-month minimum engagement
MODEL C

Standing advisory retainer

For organisations with an in-house DPO who needs senior backup. Hourly or block-hour retainer covering escalation, second-opinion review and regulatory horizon-scanning.

  • Pay-as-used or block hours
  • Same-week response SLA
  • Quarterly relationship review
MODEL D

Embedded interim DPO

Senior privacy practitioner embedded full-time inside your organisation for a defined window — typically during program build, regulator inspection, or DPO transition.

  • 3 — 9 month embedded placement
  • Reports into your governance committee
  • Knowledge-transfer plan included

Talk to us before you need to.

A 30-minute conversation will tell us — and you — whether we're the right firm for what you're trying to do. Sometimes the answer is no, and we'll tell you that too.

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