Multi-disciplinary Capability
At Anekanta®, we empower organisations to unlock AI’s full potential, driving productivity, improving decision context, and building competitive advantage. We ensure this advancement is achieved with absolute control and trust, especially when stakes are highest. Our objective is to illuminate your entire AI landscape, identifying opportunities alongside potential sources of risk and liability before they become costly additional burdens. We enable you to confidently adopt AI to solve real business problems while proactively mitigating risk.
We place robust governance at the core of every AI strategy, transforming complex regulatory compliance into a tangible strategic advantage. We focus on pivotal regulations like the EU AI Act, the certifiable AI Management System standard (ISO/IEC 42001), NIST AI RMF and OECD AI principles embodied in Treaties and Government/Regional strategies, as fundamental catalysts for AI success.
We deliver high-value, expert guidance across two critical dimensions:
- Strategic AI Value Realisation: We identify, validate, and strategically prioritise AI opportunities for demonstrable business value. Our board-level literacy programme, rigorous strategy formulation, and comprehensive use case evaluation drive actionable strategies for productivity and long-term innovation, ensuring transparent, foresight-driven AI adoption.
- AI Governance and Regulatory Readiness: We provide unparalleled support in mitigating complex systemic risks and ensuring verifiable compliance. This includes deep-dive risk analysis to pinpoint all potential liabilities, EU AI Act preparedness, and deployment governance. We excel in preparing organisations for ISO/IEC 42001 certification, transforming liabilities into robust, certified trustworthiness and market differentiation.
We partner with you to ensure you can fully trust your AI, confidently defend its integrity, and decisively lead with it in the most challenging and regulated environments, knowing you understand the cost of ownership in your return on investment calculations.
Key People
Our business model is flexible which means that our project teams work together on a skills and experience matrix basis to tightly fit our client’s requirements. We have selected key team members for our Team Spotlight, who contribute across multiple dimensions of Anekanta®’s service offerings.
Pauline Norstrom LLB (Hons), FBCS, FRSA, FIoD
Founder and CEO
Pauline Norstrom is an experienced, award winning board director and strategist. She is also the founder and CEO of Anekanta® where she created the business model and its services which include CPD-certified strategic AI literacy and governance training for boards, business advisory, and readiness for the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001 – all designed to elevate decision-making and build confidence in AI at board level.
Prior to Anekanta® Pauline built over 20 years experience in UK and international commercial organisations focused on innovation in high-stakes sectors, including statutory executive roles such as Global COO, MD, VP, and Chairwoman of a National Association where she is now on the board as a non-executive director.
Alongside her commercial roles, Pauline is an established leader and driver of best practice use of high-risk technology and has authored and contributed to numerous guides and standards. These include early stage computer vision based AI technology in defence and security, the extraction of digital evidence from video surveillance systems incorporating deep fake detection and image quality requirements. She was the instigator and lead author of guidance on the ethical use of facial recognition technology in video surveillance and the later standard which she co-authored (BS 9347).
Pauline has been awarded Fellowships with the British Computer Society, Institute of Directors and the Royal Society for the Arts. She is an alumni from the University of Oxford AI Programme and holds a first class honours degree in Law (LLB Hons).
Dr. Maurice Chiodo BSc (Hons), PhD Melb, MASt, PhD Camb
Principal Scientific Consultant – Ethics and Systemic Risk in Digital Technology
Dr. Maurice Chiodo is an award winning, distinguished mathematician and ethics in mathematics leader, renowned for his expertise in systemic risk inherent to mathematically-driven digital technologies. He holds two PhDs in mathematics from the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge and is a former Fellow and Director of Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. Prior to this, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher in the faculty of mathematics at Cambridge, one of the highest-ranked postdoctoral awards in Europe. Dr. Chiodo is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. He is also the Founder and Principal Investigator of the Ethics in Mathematics Project, researching and teaching responsible behaviour and ethical awareness in mathematics.
Dr. Chiodo brings a unique blend of deep critical insight and commercial experience to Anekanta® where he has supported our projects, solving complex AI and digital technology design and use case problems since 2022. These include biometrics, surveillance, behavioural inference, and opaque decision-making models. He also provides critical support to clients in identifying and mitigating business risk under frameworks such as the EU AI Act and the AI Management System standard ISO 42001. His recommendations include strategic improvements to the development and use of AI systems leading to commercially beneficial and societally responsible deployments.
Jeff Bennison CISSP, CISM
ISO Consultant – Artificial Intelligence
Jeff has worked with organisations to increase their knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to include awareness of the risk of deepfake videos resulting in a revised business communication strategy. Furthermore to introduce an AI powered contract review process reducing the amount of time to review contracts by 90%.
Jeff is a member of the UK Government AI All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) which focuses on the EU AI Act to ensure organisations implement AI reasonably and fairly. Jeff has gained certificates for the MIT AI Implications for Business Strategy course, and the BSI provided ISO42001 Lead Implementor and ISO42001 Lead Auditor courses. He has undertaken additional courses to attain the ISO42001 Lead Auditor Practitioner certification.
Jeff supports Anekanta®’s ISO 42001 and EU AI Act preparation projects helping organisations build firm foundations for AI governance and compliance. Additionally, Jeff is one of the delivery team for Anekanta®’s CPD certified ‘AI in the Boardroom’ literacy and governance programme for boards.
Engaging Anekanta®
Pauline Norstrom is the driving force behind Anekanta®, and is instrumental in scoping the client problem and devising Anekanta®’s strategic response delivered through our multi-disciplinary teams. Our services are supported by our AI Governance Framework and AI Risk Intelligence SystemTM.
Anekanta® partners with boards and senior leaders on a defined project basis to embed AI into business strategy, drive innovation and capability, and strengthen positioning for growth, and market advantage – underpinned by regulatory compliance and best governance practice throughout the AI System Lifecycle.
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