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

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

By Grégory Coste.

Published: May 12, 2025

The GDPR is the new European regulation, mandatory and global in scope, concerning 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 was the trigger?

Olivier Guillo:
We created Smart GDPR® to enable immediate answers to the three fundamental questions that every organization asks regarding GDPR:

  • How to become compliant?

  • How to stay compliant?

  • Who do you work with?

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

Olivier Guillo:
Our teams are made up of France's Internet pioneers, most of whom have been evolving in the field dealing with personal data for over 20 years. Smart GDPR® is a member of AFCDP and Hexatrust Occitanie. Our clients include hundreds of law firms, who are the day-to-day guarantors of the quality of our GDPR solution.

Can you tell us about your compliance platform?

Olivier Guillo:
Smart GDPR® - Professional Edition enables organizations 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, ...

Who can use it? What types of organization?

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

  • GDPR service providers (integrators, DPO, ...)
  • OR Organizations needing to comply:
    • VSES,
    • SMES ,
    • ETI ,
    • International groups,
    • Public services,
    • Non-profit organizations.

What's the point of your "users' club" and the marketplace?

Olivier Guillo:
The Users' Club is the world's first marketplace focused on GDPR, is made up of Customer organizations in need of 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 emanating from our Customer Organizations ;
  • Make Trust the main driver of sales 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