What We Deliver
Three service lines and one discipline: the governance, compliance, and operating infrastructure that institutional gatekeepers examine, which is also what a well-run organisation looks like from the inside. Built properly, the same work improves the business and passes the review. Engagements begin at a procurement review, a regulatory examination, an audit, a carve-out with a deadline, or a seat that needs filling. HIBS specialises in establishing governance from a standing start, and in stabilising environments that have grown faster than their structure.
Executive Leadership & Turnaround
A led function, a turnaround that lands, and a permanent appointment in place when we step out.
Transitional and transformational leadership for organisations that need an executive in the seat now: a chief operating officer to steady and lead a business through change, a chief information security or risk officer to hold a regulator's confidence, or a turnaround mandate with a defined end state and a date attached. Our executives take the role, the reporting line, and the accountability that comes with it. Every mandate concludes with a permanent appointment in place or the function handed, documented and running, to the internal team.
Four forms the mandate takes. Each is scoped to a defined end state before the executive arrives, so the board knows what concludes the engagement and what the organisation is left holding.
Transitional Executive Roles
Chief operating, information, security, risk, and compliance seats held through a vacancy, a transaction, or a regulatory episode. The executive carries the full mandate, the reporting line, and the accountability, and operates inside the organisation rather than advising it from outside.
Turnaround & Performance Recovery
Operating functions brought to a defined end state against a board-approved plan: delivery, cost, controls, and reporting stabilised in the order that gives lenders, regulators, and shareholders confidence.
Transformation Leadership
Executive ownership of an operating-model, shared-services, governance, or technology transformation from design through embedding. Accountable for the outcome, not the recommendation, and structured so the organisation's own leadership holds the result.
Board & Executive Advisory
Retained counsel to boards, audit and risk committees, and executive teams, with managed operation of the compliance function, or a shared governance and compliance office serving several entities, where an obligation must be kept met between appointments.
Governance, Compliance & Audit Readiness
Procurement reviews, regulatory examinations, and audits passed on evidence that already exists, this year and every year after.
An enterprise buyer has opened its security review. A regulator has scheduled an examination. An auditor will want to see the evidence behind the controls. We design and implement the management systems, controls, and evidence those gatekeepers examine, from ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification readiness and enterprise risk management to regulatory compliance under GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and the EU AI Act, and independent audit and assurance. Governance is built into how your organisation operates and documented against actual practice, so the review, the examination, and the audit are passed on the evidence, and passed again next year.
Autonomous agents now hold credentials, touch production data, and execute multi-step workflows. Governance designed for human actors does not extend to them by default, so the same standard is applied to the newest actor in the operating model.
Shadow AI & Non-Human Identity Auditing
Mapping and securing the runtime permissions, data access boundaries, and API integrations of autonomous agents across the company stack, so that every non-human identity is accounted for, scoped, and under formal control.
Enterprise Procurement Unlocking
Data-residency architecture, client-tenant isolation, and RAG pipeline guardrails designed to clear enterprise security vetting, converting AI capability from a procurement liability into a procurement asset.
Posture & Compliance Maintenance
Continuous assurance that autonomous multi-step workflows stay within ISO 27001, GDPR, and cross-border data obligations as agents, models, and integrations evolve in production.
Agent-Human Lifecycle Operations
Escalation protocols, cross-coordination rules, and end-to-end accountability tracking, so that responsibility remains assignable at every step of an autonomous process.
Stabilisation & Transformation
Governance that holds through the transition, and a standalone operation your team runs from the day it concludes.
A carve-out, an acquisition, or an operating-model transition is the moment to build governance for the structure your organisation is moving to, while audit and regulatory obligations continue uninterrupted. We establish and stabilise governance through the transition, and design or stand up the shared services the new structure depends on, across finance, HR, IT, procurement, and compliance, whether they are being separated from a parent or consolidated across a portfolio. What the transition leaves behind: a findings and remediation register with named owners, documentation written against actual practice, and a functioning capability your team owns when the transition concludes.
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.