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[ITW] Olivier Guillo co-founder of Smart GDPR, a compliance platform

[ITW] Olivier Guillo co-founder of Smart GDPR, a compliance platform

By Grégory Coste.

Published: 12 May 2025

The GDPR is the new European regulation, mandatory and global in scope, which concerns the processing of personal data. Olivier Guillo is one of the founders of Smart GDPR®: let's take a look at the world's most comprehensive GDPR software solution.

Why did you create the SMART GDPR platform? What triggered it?

Olivier Guillo:
We created Smart GDPR® to provide immediate answers to the three fundamental questions that every organisation asks itself when it comes to GDPR:

  • How do I become compliant?

  • How do I stay compliant?

  • Who do you work with?

What is your legitimacy in the areas of data security and confidentiality?

Olivier Guillo:
Our teams are made up of Internet pioneers in France, most of whom have been working in the field of personal data for over 20 years. Smart GDPR® is a member of the AFCDP and Hexatrust Occitanie. Our clients include hundreds of law firms, who guarantee the quality of our GDPR solution on a daily basis.

Could you tell us about your compliance platform?

Olivier Guillo:
Smart GDPR® - Professional Edition enables organisations to become and remain GDPR compliant, thanks to our software infrastructure that guides them step by step, and also enables them, via our marketplace, to find all the complementary GDPR services and products they need: consultants, trainers, lawyers, software publishers, etc.

Who can use it? What types of organisation?

Olivier Guillo:
The flexibility of Smart GDPR® means that it can be adapted to any type of structure:

  • GDPR service providers (integrators, DPO, etc.)
  • OR Organisations that need to comply:
    • VSES,
    • SMES ,
    • ETI ,
    • International groups,
    • Public services,
    • Non-profit organisations.

What is the purpose of your "users' club" and the marketplace?

Olivier Guillo:
The Users' Club is the first global marketplace focused on GDPR, is made up of Customer organisations needing support in implementing or maintaining their GDPR compliance as well as providers of the Smart GDPR Partner Network™.

The aim of the Users Club is to create a circle of Trust in order to:

  • Offer Trusted solutions for all requests from our Customer Organisations;
  • Make Trust the main driver of revenue development for the Smart GDPR Partner Network™.

Olivier Guillo co-founded Smart GDPR® to actively contribute to the protection of personal data. He is a successful entrepreneur in advertising, artificial intelligence and blockchain. Olivier has been an active investor in the consumer goods and real estate industries.

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Article translated from French