Ilya Vasilenko

Compliance Made Simple

Business focus

Why data protection, security & legal compliance?

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Inefficient or non-existent processes for data protection, security, and legal compliance hinder business growth, leading to financial loss and unmanaged risks. I help startups and SMBs establish robust data protection, security, contracts, and compliance frameworks to position their company as a trustworthy partner, enable rapid growth, and minimize risks.

How do I support Startups and SMBs?

Data ProtectionContracts, Sales Process, Pricing & Packaging

Streamline your legal and sales processes for accelerated growth and optimized revenue:

  • Legal Templates: Set up customized legal documents like (M)NDA, SaaS agreements, SOW, amendments, DPA, and more.
  • Contract Review: Review contracts to ensure legal soundness and alignment with your interests.
  • Negotiation Support: Help negotiate contractual terms with current or potential clients & vendors to secure favorable conditions.
  • Sales Documents: Enable your sales team with offer templates, and external documents on data protection and security.
  • Pricing & Packaging: Define a state-of-the-art pricing and packaging structure for your SaaS service to optimize sales and profits.

Data ProtectionInformation Security, ISMS, ISO 27001

Achieve robust security compliance and certification for peace of mind and business resilience:

  • Gap Assessment: Conduct a gap assessment aligned to international standards such as ISO 27001.
  • Security Due Diligence: Conduct tailored security assessments for M&A or IPO processes.
  • Information Security Management System (ISMS): Set up an ISMS in your company.
  • Introduction to ISO 27001: Introduce the management to steps, timeline, effort, and costs of an ISO 27001 certification.
  • ISO 27001 Implementation: Assist in implementing ISO 27001 standards and achieving certification.
  • Migration Support: Help your company efficiently migrate from ISO 27001:2013 to ISO 27001:2022.

Data ProtectionData Protection, GDPR, FDPA

Ensure comprehensive data protection compliance for trust and regulatory peace:

  • Data Protection Officer (DPO): Serve as an appointed DPO of your company.
  • GDPR & FADP Assessment: Conduct GDPR gap assessments and help close any compliance gaps identified.
  • Data Protection Due Diligence: Conduct tailored data protection assessments for M&A or IPO processes.
  • Processes: Implement required data protection processes, such as incident management and data subject request handling.
  • Policies: Develop missing policies, including data retention, data deletion, and incident management.
  • Data Protection Program: Set up a comprehensive data protection program tailored to your company’s needs.

Skills

I was lucky in my life to be able to build up a unique combination of skills from multiple related domains - data protection, legal, IT, security, and others. This skill set allows me to efficiently deliver agile consulting to various companies in Europe and the USA, and excel in my daily work.

Data Protection

  • IAPP certified: CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT
  • Working experience as DPO (7y+)
  • Consulting of other companies on data protection

Legal

  • I have been negotiating and managing telecom, data, insights, marketing, service, and SaaS contracts in 11 countries (US, Europe, Asia) for around a decade.
  • Background knowledge: Master in Business Law (FFHS).

Computer Science and Information Technologies

  • Master in Natural Language Processing
  • Master in Distributed Systems (ETHZ)
  • 15y of programming, team leadership, IT & strategic consulting, General Project Management and Technical Product Management

Security

  • ISO 27001 Lead (6y)
  • ISO 27001 internal auditor
  • ISO 27001 implementation consultant

Compliance

  • Compliance with laws and regulations
  • Global compliance program & trainings
  • Compliance processes & reporting

Other specific skills

  • Pricing and packaging of Software as a Service products
  • Establishment of technical teams and introduction of Scrum
  • Project management

Soft skills

  • Multiple years of international negotiation experience
  • Team leadership experience
  • Project Management
  • compliance, and data protection reporting to management and boards
  • Teaching & Trainings: Regular speaker and guest lecturer

Articles

Here are my articles, videos and summaries that I would like to share with you. No particular order so far. I just like to have them online, also because I can easily send a reference to somebody I care about.

Work together

Here is an anecdote. In one of the previous companies, it took us four sitting in the same room several months to figure out by accident that we read same books, have interest for the same life concepts and use the same type of meta models. We laughted a lot about it. Later on, an investor Iskender Dirik shared his so called "User Manual" which helped him a lot to provide his peers a crunch of information about him as an entiry point for working together.

After that, I created my doc which I am sharing with people on a regular basis. Here it is - a short document that describes my communication preferences, provides insights into my leadership and working style, as well as describes me as a person shortly and concisely. It intends to (a) make communication more effective and efficient (b) provide an entity point into my personality to allow the first contact based on shared topics.

In addition to that, here is a short article on leadership and goal setting that I wrote to align with my teams on both topics.

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