The Firm
An independent practice measured by one thing: what the client is left running when the engagement ends.
HIBS is an independent governance, compliance, and stabilisation consultancy. We move governance out of the people who hold it and into the systems the organisation runs on, so that it can be examined by anyone who asks.
The approach is the same in every engagement. We find the real cause of the issue, build the structures and evidence that resolve it, and hand the result to the client's own team. What changes is the medium: an executive in a seat, a management system built to be examined, or governance held together through a transition.
The result is an organisation that buyers, regulators, and boards can take at its word, because the evidence supports it. Decisions are made the same way every time. Accountability does not depend on one person remembering. Everyone works to one operating model.
We specialise in two situations: establishing governance from a standing start, and stabilising environments that have grown faster than their structure. Both apply at a single entity and across a multi-entity programme spanning regulated industries and jurisdictions.
Engagements are led by certified professionals holding CISA, CISM, ITIL, ISO/IEC 27001 and 42001 Lead Implementer, and Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect credentials.
Governance built into how the organisation runs, documented against actual practice, and owned by the people who stay.
HIBS was established in 2024 on a single conviction: that operational maturity, ethics, and governance are not the preserve of the largest institutions, but the foundation on which any serious company is built. Boyka Neykova, its founder and chief executive, spent nearly two decades leading IT operations, governance transformation, and compliance architecture at board and executive level, inside Fortune 500 technology enterprises and across enterprise SaaS, MedTech, and financial technology. The practice exists to give every client the governance those institutions take for granted, at a scale that fits.
Governance that survives scrutiny, built into how the organisation runs, and owned by the client's own team.
Operational integrity as a universal standard, determined by commitment rather than budget.
What Every Engagement Establishes
Structural Clarity
Transitioning organisations from implicit, individual-dependent operations to clearly defined governance structures, decision rights, and institutional accountability.
Operational Readiness
Implementing management systems across IT, security, risk, and compliance, calibrated to organisational stage and regulatory environment rather than to frameworks designed for FTSE 100 incumbents.
Stakeholder Confidence
Ensuring governance and operational maturity can withstand the scrutiny of enterprise buyers, institutional investors, and regulators, so that due diligence becomes a strength rather than a vulnerability.
Integrity
Independent, objective, grounded in professional judgment. Acting in the best interests of the organisation, not the engagement.
Partnership
Every engagement is a relationship rather than a transaction. We work to earn the kind of trust that outlasts the mandate and brings the client back with the next question.
Rigour
Discipline, structure, and evidence applied to complex operating challenges. Every recommendation is defensible; every implementation is documented.
Pragmatism
Right-sized solutions for real organisations. Implementation that works at the current stage, not frameworks designed to impress in proposals.
Durability
Structures designed to outlast the engagement, built to endure growth, leadership change, and ownership transition.
Continuity
Engagements conclude in institutional ownership or continue under a retained leadership or managed-operations mandate. Either way, the structure must hold without depending on any single individual, internal or external.
Begin With What Is Ahead
Tell us what is ahead: the enterprise deal, the regulatory examination, the audit date, the carve-out, the seat to fill. In the first conversation you will hear whether HIBS is the right firm for it and what readiness looks like. Engagements on a short timeline are welcome.
Engage the PracticeEvidence That Holds
What is built is documented against actual practice, so it stands when a reviewer tests it rather than when a proposal describes it.
No Other Interest in the Room
Independent of vendors and advisory dependencies. The recommendation you receive is the one your outcome requires.
Built to Outlast the Engagement
Structures that hold under growth, transition, scrutiny, and change of ownership, long after we have left.