About
Global compliance experience, focused on Indian implementation.
Privara Consulting was founded to close one specific gap: Indian businesses understand they need DPDP compliance, but they don't have a credible, practical partner to help them actually get there.
Founder background
Our founder, Devashish kakkar, spent over half a decade in compliance and legal advisory roles across Ireland — one of Europe's central jurisdictions for GDPR enforcement, and home to the European headquarters of the world's largest technology and SaaS companies. The work spanned vendor governance for international financial services, employee data programs at scale, breach response coordination, and operational privacy reviews across SaaS, fintech, and healthtech sectors.
International GDPR exposure
GDPR is the most mature data protection framework in the world. The obligations under India's DPDP Act mirror many of its core principles — lawful basis, purpose limitation, security, breach notification, and data subject rights. Years of hands-on GDPR work translate directly into a pragmatic DPDP playbook for Indian businesses, without the "we'll figure it out as cases come" uncertainty that most local advisories currently work under.
Vendor & operational compliance
Most consultancies stop at advice. We've spent careers inside operations — reviewing DPAs, negotiating with vendors, building controls into engineering workflows, drafting HR SOPs, and training non-legal teams to recognize privacy risk in their daily work. That operational scar tissue is what lets us tell you, in week one, which vendor conversations are worth having and which are theatre.
Current focus
Today, our focus is helping Indian SMEs, startups, and CA firms operationalize DPDP — moving the conversation from "do we have a policy?" to "do our systems actually do what the policy says?" Most of our clients are 50–500 person companies that have outgrown copy-paste templates but aren't ready for an in-house DPO.
Why Privara
What makes us different from a law firm or a Big-4 advisory.
Four commitments that shape every engagement — and the reason clients pick us over generalist consultancies.
Global standards, local execution
Years of hands-on GDPR practice in Ireland — the EU's compliance epicenter — translated into a pragmatic DPDP playbook for Indian businesses.
Built for Indian SMEs & startups
Our sweet spot: companies past templates but not ready for a full-time DPO. Pricing, scope and pace tuned to that reality.
Implementation-first delivery
Every engagement ends with controls inside your stack — consent flows in your product, DPAs in procurement, SOPs in HRMS. Not a PDF on SharePoint.
Defensible to the regulator
We design programs to the standard of a Data Protection Board inquiry — the only standard that matters when something actually goes wrong.
How We Operate
Operating principles we don't bend.
Practical over theoretical
Every deliverable is something your team can actually use on Monday morning — not a PDF that lives in a SharePoint folder forever.
Honest scoping
We will tell you when you don't need a service. We say no to engagements that would waste your money. Reputation is the long game.
SME-friendly pricing
Clarity and value without big-firm overhead. Transparent fees, no padded hours, no junior-staff bait-and-switch.
Implementation first
Compliance happens in your systems, not on a slide. We sit with your engineers and HR teams to actually ship the controls.
Credentials & memberships
We invest continuously in the certifications and communities that keep us current — across both European and Indian data protection.
- Certified Data Protection Practitioner (CDPP)
- GDPR Practitioner experience (Ireland)
- 5+ years vendor governance & legal ops
- Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
- Cross-border data transfer specialist (EU ↔ India)
- Trained in incident response and breach handling
Methodology
The Privara approach.
A repeatable, transparent way of moving any business from privacy uncertainty to demonstrable, audit-defensible compliance.
1. Risk-first, not checklist-first
We start every engagement by asking what would actually hurt your business — regulatory penalties, customer trust, board scrutiny, sales blockers. Then we work backwards from that to the obligations that matter most.
2. Map the system, not the org chart
Personal data flows through tools, not departments. Our data maps follow the data — across engineering, HR, vendors, and analytics — instead of being constrained by team boundaries.
3. Build artifacts inside your stack
Consent flows go into your product. SOPs go into your HRMS. DPAs go into your procurement workflow. We don't produce parallel documentation that no one will maintain.
4. Train the owners, not the audience
Every artifact we ship has an owner inside your company. We train that person until they can defend, update, and explain it without us in the room.
5. Plan for the regulator, not the auditor
Internal audit checklists are easy. We design programs that would hold up to a Data Protection Board inquiry — that's the only standard that matters when something goes wrong.