About Us

Privacy has two halves: proving you have the right to use data, and protecting the data itself. Most vendors sell one half. privtrust.ai was founded to build the platform that does both, with compliance evidence any regulator or auditor can independently verify, not just take our word for it.

We are building the infrastructure that makes enterprise data operations safe, compliant, and trustworthy for regulated organizations worldwide, so DPOs and CISOs can focus on strategy, not paperwork.

Our Team

Meet the Experts

A multidisciplinary team of privacy, engineering, and enterprise specialists building the control plane for regulated data operations.

Anil Kumar Appayanna

Chief Product Officer

Award-winning Chief Information Security Officer with 24+ years of global cybersecurity leadership across finance, healthcare, technology, and government, leading security strategy, risk management, incident response, and compliance with frameworks including GDPR, CCPA, ISO 27001, NIST, and HIPAA. Recognized with the CISO 100 Cyber Sentinel Award (2021), CSA Bangalore Cloud Security Risk Champion (2022), CISO Platform 100 Awards (2023 and 2025), CXO Junction Cybersecurity Leadership Excellence Award (2024), and the Singapore Cybersecurity Awards (2024).

Extensive experience aligning product strategy with GDPR, DPDP Act, and PDPA compliance workflows across banking, healthcare, and SaaS, the sectors privtrust.ai is built for. As Chief Product Officer, turns that experience into consent orchestration, DSR automation, and vault capabilities that DPOs and CISOs can operationalize at scale.

Partners with engineering and go-to-market teams to ensure every release advances the platform’s privacy and confidential data protection mission.

Vishwanath Vaidyanathan

Chief Technology Officer

15+ years of experience architecting national-scale identity and digital infrastructure, with privacy, security, and cryptography built in from the start. Previously Principal Architect at MOSIP, the open-source identity platform powering nearly 200 million identities across 30+ countries, where he led the Architects Group.

His work sits at the intersection of digital public infrastructure, privacy, identity, and trust at national scale. Earlier, spent nearly a decade at Aujas (now NuSummit Cybersecurity), building cybersecurity products and large-scale systems, including Aadhaar-compliant biometric infrastructure and Account Aggregator compliance initiatives with Sahamati.

Brings deep expertise in privacy-by-design, digital identity, credentials, cryptography, and consent-based data sharing to privtrust.ai as CTO.

Sasi Kumar Ganesan

Board Advisor

Security architect, cryptographic systems engineer, and open-source technology leader with expertise across public key infrastructure, privacy-preserving design, and large-scale identity systems. With over two decades architecting national-scale identity systems, he served as Chief Security Architect for Aadhaar, shaping how a population-scale identity program protects credentials, keys, and sensitive personal data in production. He later led engineering at MOSIP, the open-source identity platform used by governments worldwide, and co-created India’s eSign framework, which made legally valid digital signatures available over a national PKI.

That mix of cryptographic engineering, open-source infrastructure, and identity at national scale informs how privtrust.ai thinks about consent, confidential data protection, and privacy-preserving architecture. Brings this experience to privtrust.ai as a board advisor.

Sambit Garnaik

Board Advisor

Cybersecurity entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and technology growth architect operating at the intersection of deep technical expertise and scalable business strategy. With extensive experience across cybersecurity, enterprise technology consulting, and go-to-market leadership, he has helped build and scale high-growth ventures, taking startups from early-stage product and security foundations through enterprise sales, partnerships, and market expansion. That background spans how security-grade products are engineered, how they are sold into regulated buyers, and how early teams grow into durable companies.

Advises privtrust.ai on translating technical depth into enterprise adoption, partnership strategy, and long-term growth, so the platform earns trust with CISOs, DPOs, and compliance leaders. Brings that perspective to privtrust.ai as a board advisor.

Gowtham A

Privacy Solution & Consulting

Serves as the team’s go-to expert on privacy regulation (DPDP Act, GDPR, and PDPA), translating evolving legal requirements into practical product and deployment guidance. Works closely with product and engineering to make sure every capability actually holds up against the regulation it claims to satisfy.

Supports enterprise engagements with deep regulatory context, helping DPOs and compliance teams map their real-world obligations to consent orchestration, DSR automation, and confidential data protection.

Sudeep J

Engineering

Leads core platform services and infrastructure, powering the unified privacy control plane that connects consent, orchestration, and vault layers at enterprise scale. Architects resilient backend systems, deployment pipelines, and integration patterns that meet the reliability and security bar of regulated workloads.

Ensures the platform foundation supports high availability, multi-region readiness, and the operational guarantees enterprise customers expect.

Rahul Karmakar

Engineering

Develops privacy APIs, integrations, and event-driven workflows, enabling enterprises to embed consent and compliance automation directly into existing applications. Builds developer-facing surfaces that connect CRM, ERP, KYC, and data platforms to privtrust.ai orchestration capabilities.

Focuses on clean API design, reliable webhook delivery, and integration patterns that reduce time-to-value for enterprise platform teams.

Rohan R Noah

Engineering

Contributes to platform development across backend services and integrations, implementing features, fixing defects, and supporting the engineering team in delivering reliable privacy and compliance workflows. Works across consent lifecycle, DSR automation, and vault integration modules to ship production-ready capabilities on schedule.

Brings disciplined execution to cross-functional delivery, from technical design through testing and release support.

Aswin Gopal

Engineering

Validates product quality across consent, DSR, and vault workflows, designing test cases, catching regressions, and ensuring releases meet enterprise compliance and reliability standards before they reach customers. Builds automated test coverage for privacy-critical paths and partners with engineering to reproduce and resolve defects early.

Upholds the quality bar required for audit-ready, enterprise-grade privacy operations at scale.

Joysree Debnath

Business Growth

Builds relationships with enterprise privacy and security teams, guiding regulated organizations from evaluation through deployment of the privtrust.ai control plane. Partners with DPOs, CISOs, and procurement stakeholders to map consent, DSR, and vault requirements to measurable business outcomes.

Brings a consultative approach to complex sales cycles in banking, healthcare, and SaaS, helping enterprises adopt privacy orchestration with confidence and executive alignment.

Raghunath Reddy D

Business Growth

Drives enterprise pipeline growth and executive engagement, connecting banking, healthcare, and SaaS leaders with privacy orchestration solutions tailored to their compliance posture. Identifies expansion opportunities across regulated industries and builds trusted relationships with security architects, privacy officers, and platform teams.

Translates technical platform capabilities into clear value for enterprise buyers navigating GDPR, DPDP Act, and PDPA obligations.

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