Privacy is not a compliance overhead.
It is a commercial enabler.
VulaPri is a senior, independent fractional DPO practice for UK and EMEA organisations that treat privacy as growth infrastructure — not regulatory friction.
Privacy is no longer just a legal obligation. It is part of the infrastructure of modern business. Trust now directly influences who customers buy from, who partners collaborate with, and who regulators engage with.
Three load-bearing differentiators.
Privacy advisory is crowded. What earns its place at your table is operator-level seniority, independent risk-based perspective, and a delivery model that matches how you actually buy.
Senior
Many privacy practitioners are consultants who advise on functions they have never run. VulaPri is led by someone who has actually headed up a privacy function inside a global multinational. Group DPO and EMEA Privacy Director at Canon, leading governance across 60+ entities covering more than 100 countries. Not an outside view of how it should work. The view from inside.
Independent
External judgement. No in-house captive bias. No compliance-as-checkbox interests. Crucially, advisory is risk-based — targeted at the material exposures in your organisation, not at the latest enforcement headline. Sharp focus on what actually moves your risk profile.
Flexible
Fractional by design. Scaled to your operating model and risk profile, not a generic retainer template. Three engagement modes — ongoing retainer, hourly advisory, or quarterly review — matched to what the work actually demands.
Three engagement modes, supported by senior practitioners.
Pricing is competitive. We understand the cost pressures privacy functions are typically under, so our services are designed to deliver maximal value within a commercially defensible pricing structure.
Fractional DPO retainer
Retainer · 3–4 days per month minimum
Ongoing privacy leadership for organisations that need DPO coverage and independent senior judgement on demand. Suitable as the named DPO under UK and EU GDPR Art. 37 or as a parallel advisor to an in-house DPO.
- Named DPO coverage under UK and EU GDPR Art. 37
- Standing advisory across data flows, governance, and AI use
- PIA / DPIA / RoPA review and challenge
- Training programme oversight
- Breach response within retainer scope (UK and EU GDPR Art. 33 · 72-hour notification)
Point-solution advisory
Project basis · 2-hour minimum block
For discrete pieces of senior work. The premium is the human review layer on top of AI-assisted first-pass output — senior judgement on the parts that determine defensibility.
- DPIA build under UK and EU GDPR Art. 35 with ICO-aligned methodology
- RoPA design and population (Art. 30)
- Privacy gap assessment and prioritised remediation roadmap
- Vendor DPA review and transfer-impact assessment (TIA)
- EU AI Act readiness review
- Breach response (outside any retainer)
Quarterly compliance review
Annual · 1 day per quarter
A light-touch retainer for organisations that need periodic senior eyes on the privacy programme — without a full fractional DPO commitment. Best fit for smaller or lower-complexity operations.
- Quarterly programme review meeting (90 minutes)
- Watch-list update on regulator, enforcement, and case-law developments
- 2–3 hours follow-up advisory between sessions
- Defensibility check on key annual privacy decisions
Discovery to delivery in four steps.
Engagement discipline is part of the product. You always know what's in scope, what hours have been used, and what the next decision is.
Discovery
A 30-minute conversation to understand your operating model, risk profile, and what's actually keeping you up at night. No obligation; we tell you honestly if we're the wrong fit.
Scope
A written engagement scope — objectives, deliverables, estimated-hours band (low / expected / high), commercial terms, and the standing position we'll bring to the work.
Deliver
Work proceeds with transparent burn-rate updates and re-estimate moments if scope changes. Outputs are client-deployment ready, not drafts. Senior review is in every deliverable, by design.
Renew or close
Engagement-end review captures what landed, what didn't, and what's next. Retainers renew on a 30-day notice basis; point-solution work closes cleanly with handover documentation.
A senior practice. Not a one-person opinion.
VulaPri is led by Fred Oberholzer — a senior privacy and AI governance practitioner with extensive GRC, consulting, audit, and in-house experience across major jurisdictions and industry sectors.
Most recently EMEA Privacy Director and Group DPO at Canon, leading the Group DPO function across a 60+ entity multinational operating in more than 100 countries. Prior to Canon, Global Head of Privacy Consulting at Wipro and senior advisory at Deloitte, KPMG, and EY.
Currently serves on the IAPP Certifications Advisory Board.
Engagements are senior-led and delivered through a network of vetted privacy practitioners where scale or specialism demands it.
Privacy as commercial infrastructure.
Selected writing on the business case for privacy, AI-augmented practitioner work, and the role of senior judgement in regulated advisory.
The business case for privacy — 7 parts
A seven-part series articulating why privacy now sits inside commercial strategy. Trust as infrastructure. Privacy as licence to operate. The internal-employee starting-point. Why compliance framing is structurally vulnerable.
Read on LinkedInAI, loneliness, and the digital-illiteracy problem
A reflection on AI as a counter to exclusion for those whom digital interfaces have left behind. The participation case for conversational AI, framed against the dependency risks. Why "is it really something we should dismiss?" is the right question.
Read on LinkedInThe differentiated practitioner in an AI-augmented market
When AI-assisted output becomes the default, the practitioner whose voice, judgement, and contextual reasoning are still visible in the work commands the premium. Everything else is commodity.
Read on LinkedInLeadership without noise
Volume is not leadership. Certainty is not wisdom. Reaction is not strength. A reflection on the leadership behaviours that hold up when the applause fades.
Read on LinkedInA 30-minute call. No obligation.
Tell us what privacy work is on your desk. We'll be honest about whether we're the right fit, what defensible delivery looks like, and what it costs.
Prefer email? hello@vulapri.com