Vijay M is the Founder and CEO of AnantaQuanta Consulting and holds the Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) credential issued by ISACA — the global authority for IT governance and data privacy professional certification. He founded AnantaQuanta Consulting in Hyderabad to address a specific gap in the Indian advisory market: the absence of specialist consulting that could navigate DPDP Act compliance, GDPR, and AI governance obligations within one integrated programme, for organisations that cannot afford Big 4 overhead but cannot afford Big 4 gaps either.

His expertise spans the regulatory frameworks that define the current compliance landscape for Indian organisations: DPDP Act 2023 and DPDP Rules 2025 for Indian Data Fiduciaries, GDPR Articles 5–35 for organisations serving EU clients and residents, ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System for organisations requiring certifiable AI governance, NIST AI RMF for risk-based AI programme design, and the EU AI Act’s risk classification hierarchy for enterprises whose AI systems touch EU markets. He works at the operational level of these frameworks — not just interpreting the regulatory text, but designing the governance infrastructure, consent architectures, breach notification workflows, and compliance analytics dashboards that make the obligations operational in practice.

Vijay’s engagement model is built on a single principle: every DPDP compliance and AI governance programme he designs must be operationally sustainable — meaning it holds up under scrutiny from the Data Protection Board of India, EU supervisory authorities, and internal auditors, and it continues to hold up as the organisation’s systems and the regulatory landscape evolve. He embeds governance capabilities into client teams through knowledge transfer and training rather than creating ongoing advisory dependency. Alongside his consulting practice, he is developing AnantaQuanta Consulting’s proprietary compliance technology platform — a product designed to make DPDP Act and AI governance compliance infrastructure accessible to organisations without large internal compliance teams.