Every major jurisdiction now mandates verified human governance of AI systems. Each requires a named expert whose credentials carry legal weight. No permanent body exists to provide this at institutional grade. Norven Group is building that body — credentialed AI assurance, risk management, and compliance infrastructure for General Counsel, Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Compliance, and boards navigating the autonomous economy.
Conformity assessments for high-risk AI systems. Named human oversight functions required under Article 14. Third-party assessment under Article 43.
Personal criminal liability for AI decisions in financial services. Section 36 defence requires independent expert attestation — not a consulting disclaimer.
Firms must demonstrate good outcomes from AI-driven decisions. Requires ongoing governance assessment, not one-time certification.
Named human supervisory functions for autonomous robots. Dual compliance with the AI Act for physical autonomous systems.
Saudi Arabia's national AI governance requirements. Institutional-grade oversight for Vision 2030 AI deployments at sovereign scale.
Responsible AI infrastructure principles. ADGM and DIFC developing AI-specific regulatory frameworks for financial services.
Chief AI Officer appointments. AI Governance Non-Executive Directors. Chief Risk Officers for AI-augmented institutions. AI risk management frameworks, model governance reviews, and AI assurance assessments for FTSE 100/250 firms, regulated financial institutions, and enterprises navigating AI compliance obligations.
Fiduciary leadership for family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and institutional capital stewards. AI due diligence for investment committees, portfolio AI risk assessment, and governance for investment institutions navigating AI-driven transformation.
Board composition, NED selection, and chair-level counsel at periods of structural change. Board risk committee advisory, AI governance NED appointments, and operational resilience frameworks for FTSE boards and regulated institutions where the autonomous economy intersects with accountability.
Chief Information Security Officers, Heads of AI Security, Heads of Risk, and security leaders at AI labs, government agencies, and regulated enterprises requiring independent AI assurance, AI audit, and third-party AI risk assessment.
Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Compliance, Chief Compliance Officers, General Counsel, DPOs, and Chief Technology Officers building AI risk management frameworks, model governance programmes, operational risk controls, and AI compliance infrastructure. From AI audit and AI certification readiness to full governance, risk, and compliance transformation.
AI policy leads, programme directors, and digital transformation teams across government departments, the AI Safety Institute, and sovereign entities requiring trustworthy AI governance at national scale.
Board risk committees, AI governance NEDs, audit committees, and PE/VC investors requiring independent AI due diligence, ethical AI assessments, and board-level AI risk oversight for FTSE and portfolio companies.
The Founding Fellowship is a permanent body of ten named authorities whose governance assessments carry legal consequence. Not consultants. Not advisors. Signatories whose credentials — regulatory authority, legal standing, domain expertise — are defensible under regulatory scrutiny.
Each Fellow brings an irreplaceable credential. Together, they form the institutional foundation for credentialed expert governance of the autonomous economy.
Former FCA/PRA Senior Director. SM&CR attestation authority for AI in financial services.
Senior researcher from a frontier lab or Russell Group / Ivy League faculty. Governance framework design.
Practising KC in technology and regulatory law. Named legal authority on every governance assessment.
Former ICO senior leader or Data Protection Authority. EU AI Act and GDPR dual compliance.
Senior Lloyd's underwriter or chief actuary. AI liability and emerging risk assessment.
Former EU Commission official or AI Act negotiation participant. 27-state regulatory credibility.
ISO committee member. Physical autonomous systems governance and safety certification.
Former SDAIA, UAE AI Office, or Gulf SWF senior official. Sovereign-scale AI governance.
Leading Arabic NLP researcher with cultural and ethical governance expertise for regional AI.
Healthcare, defence, or sector-specific governance expertise. Vertical expansion.
I spent 18 years in executive search, placing C-suite leaders and board directors across some of the most governance-intensive sectors in the world — auction houses, financial services, family offices, sovereign wealth. Thousands of mandates across jurisdictions taught me something: the most consequential decisions in any institution come down to who governs, who is accountable, and whose name is on the line.
When AI began moving from research into regulated deployment, I saw the same structural gap I had seen in every sector I had worked in — magnified by an order of magnitude. The autonomous economy is generating decisions at machine speed. The governance infrastructure to oversee those decisions does not exist.
I didn't come to this from the AI world. I came to it from the governance world. And that's exactly why I see what's missing.
I grew up on a council estate in Hackney. At 18, The King's Trust gave me a chance that changed everything. Every business I've built traces back to that moment.
Norven Group is actively recruiting the Founding Fellows who will deliver governance assessments for regulated institutions and sovereign entities. The first Fellows are being onboarded now.
If your organisation faces an AI governance obligation — an EU AI Act conformity assessment, an SM&CR attestation requirement, a board-level AI risk review, or a sovereign AI deployment that requires named human oversight — we want to hear from you now, not later.
Early institutional inquiries directly inform which Fellow seats are recruited first. Your governance requirement shapes the Fellowship.
Register a governance requirement. Tell us what you need — the regulation, the jurisdiction, the timeline. Your requirement is matched to the relevant Fellow domain and prioritised as the Fellowship is assembled.
Request a preliminary briefing. Mohammed Mirza will personally brief your General Counsel, CISO, or Head of Compliance on the regulatory landscape and how named-authority governance assessments address your specific obligation.
Join the priority register. Institutions on the register receive first access to Fellow capacity as it becomes available. No obligation. No cost. Just priority.
For Fellows: we welcome approaches from former regulators, senior barristers, AI safety researchers, sovereign programme directors, and institutional leaders whose expertise aligns with the Founding Fellowship.
For institutions: if you face an AI governance obligation and need named-authority assessment — whether immediate or forward-planning — register now for priority access to Fellow capacity as it comes online.
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