• AI Governance Overview
  • 358 pages and 90 vendors
  • 90 controls and 25 case studies
  • Mappings to EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF
Vertical Line
  • Agentic AI Governance
  • 19 case studies
  • 11 Agentic AI platforms
  • Companion to AI Governance Comprehensive

Leadership

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SUNIL SOARES

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

Sunil Soares is the Founder and CEO of YDC, focused on AI Governance. Prior to this role, Sunil was the Founder and CEO of Information Asset, a data management firm, which he sold to private equity.

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SANJEEV VARMA

President & Chief Operating Officer

Sanjeev Varma brings over 25 years of global leadership experience in digital transformation, data governance, and operational excellence to YDC. 

Your Data Connect

KHUSHBOO MEHTA

India Country Manager

Khushboo is YDC’s India Country Manager. She is responsible for the operations of our entire India team.

Project experience with fortune 500 companies. 

Board Advisor

FORREST GILMAN

Executive

From 2019 until 2023, Mr. Gilman was the Chief innovation officer and, subsequently, the President and CEO of Mode Eleven Bankcorp and Summit National Bank in Hulett, Wyoming. Prior to this, Mr. Gilman was Founder and Chief Financial Officer of AccuShares Management, LLC, an exchange traded fund sponsor.

Sunil Soares

CEO, Founder

Sunil Soares is the Founder and CEO of YDC, focused on AI Governance. Prior to this role, Sunil was the Founder and CEO of Information Asset, a data management firm, which he sold to private equity.

Sunil is the author of 12 books on data management and AI governance, including AI Governance Comprehensive, The IBM Data Governance Unified Process, Selling Information Governance to the Business, Big Data Governance, Data Governance Tools, Data Governance Guide for BCBS 239 and DFAST Compliance and The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance.

In the past, Sunil also worked as an auditor at PwC and as a management consultant at Booz and Company. Sunil was a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Sunil also holds the Artificial Intelligence Governance Practitioner (AIGP) certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He has also successfully completed the IEEE CertifAIedTM Assessor Training for AI ethics assessments.

Sanjeev Varma

President & Chief Operating Officer

Sanjeev Varma brings over 25 years of global leadership experience in digital transformation, data governance, and operational excellence to YDC. As President & COO, he leads strategic execution and operational scale, advancing YDC’s mission to deliver cutting-edge AI governance solutions.

Before joining YDC, Sanjeev led transformative initiatives as CEO of Information Asset (acquired by Premier International) and later as Chief Growth Officer at Premier, where he spearheaded data-driven innovation and post-acquisition integration.

A proven builder of scalable organizations, he is passionate about aligning people, technology, and processes to enable responsible AI adoption and effective risk management.

Your Data Connect

Khushboo Mehta

India Country Manager

Khushboo is YDC’s India Country Manager. She is responsible for the operations of our entire India team.

Project experience with Fortune 500 companies.

Forrest Gilman

From 2019 until 2023, Mr. Gilman was the Chief innovation officer and, subsequently, the President and CEO of Mode Eleven Bankcorp and Summit National Bank in Hulett, Wyoming. Prior to this, Mr. Gilman was Founder and Chief Financial Officer of AccuShares Management, LLC, an exchange traded fund sponsor.


Prior to this, Mr. Gilman worked as Managing Director for UBS Securities LLC in U.S. Equity Derivatives Structuring for Corporate and Institutional clients. Prior to this, Mr. Gilman was a Director and subsequently a Managing Director for Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. in various Derivative Structuring roles. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Gilman worked in similar positions at Bankers Trust Co., Credit Suisse First Boston, Inc., Credit Suisse Financial Products LLC and Citibank, N.A..


Mr. Gilman has a B.S. in Applied Economics from Cornell University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Fairness & Accessibility

Component

Component ID: 5.0

Mitigate bias and manage AI accessibility.

List of Controls:

  • Bias
  • Accessibility
Mitigate Bias
Control
ID: 5.1

Ensure that AI systems are fair and manage harmful bias.
Component
Sub-Control
Regulation
 
Source
Address Fairness and Accessibility EU AI Act -Article 10(2)(f)(g) – Data and Data Governance (“Examination of Possible Biases”)

Vendors

Detect Data Poisoning Attacks
Control

ID: 10.4.1

Data poisoning involves the deliberate and malicious contamination of data to compromise the performance of AI and machine learning systems.

Component
Control
Regulation
Source
10. Improve Security10.4 Avoid Data and Model Poisoning AttacksEU AI Act: Article 15 – Accuracy, Robustness and Cybersecurity 

Vendors

Improve Security
Component

Component ID: 10

Address emerging attack vectors impacting availability, integrity, abuse, and privacy.  

List of Controls:

  • Prevent Direct Prompt Injection Including Jailbreak
  • Avoid Indirect Prompt Injection
  • Avoid Availability Poisoning
    • Manage Increased Computation Attack
    • Detect Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
    • Prevent Energy-Latency Attacks
  • Avoid Data and Model Poisoning Attacks
    • Detect Data Poisoning Attacks
    • Avoid Targeted Poisoning Attacks
    • Avoid Backdoor Poisoning Attacks
    • Prevent Model Poisoning Attacks
  • Support Data and Model Privacy
    • Prevent Data Reconstruction Attacks
    • Prevent Membership Inference Attacks
    • Avoid Data Extraction Attacks
    • Avoid Model Extraction Attacks
    • Prevent Property Inference Attacks
    • Prevent Prompt Extraction Attacks
  • Manage Abuse Violations
    • Detect White-Box Evasion Attacks
    • Detect Black-Box Evasion Attacks
    • Mitigate Transferability of Attacks
  • Misuse of AI Agents
    • Prevent AI-Powered Spear-Phishing at Scale
    • Prevent AI-Assisted Software Vulnerability Discovery
    • Prevent Malicious Code Generation
    • Identify Harmful Content Generation at Scale
    • Detect Non-Consensual Content
    • Detect Fraudulent Services
    • Prevent Delegation of Decision-Making Authority to Malicious Actors

Identify Executive Sponsor

ID : 1.1 

Appoint an executive who will be accountable for the overall success of the program.

ComponentRegulationVendors
1. Establish Accountability for AIEU AI Act 
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