Independent expertise guiding the future of AI governance.
AIGAS is not just a framework. It is a standard being shaped by real industry expertise across accounting, tax technology, AI governance, cyber security, and financial systems.
Shaped by multiple viewpoints, not developed in isolation.
The AIGAS Advisory Board exists to ensure the standard evolves in a way that reflects how firms actually operate, not how governance looks on paper. This is not a passive board.
Strategic direction
Shaping how the standard evolves and where AIGAS should focus next as adoption grows.
Real-world perspective
Industry insight from accounting, tax technology, and the daily operational reality of firms.
Governance principles
Making sure principles translate into practical application that firms can actually implement.
Input as things change
Continuous input as AI technology, regulatory expectations, and firm workflows evolve.
Expertise across the profession.
The current board brings together expertise across accounting software, industry operations, tax technology, AI governance, cyber security, and global risk.
Chair & Founder
Sal Nasser
Founder of PPCS · Creator of AIGAS
Sal Nasser is the founder of PPCS and the creator of AIGAS. With over 25 years of experience in accounting software and technology, Sal has worked across the profession from early cloud platforms to enterprise systems and practice software.
He has held roles at organisations including IRIS, Aqilla, and Capium, and now focuses through PPCS on helping firms govern the risks introduced by AI, cloud systems, and modern workflows.
Industry Advisor
Andy North
Accounting Industry Advisor
Andy North brings deep experience from within the accounting profession and a strong understanding of how firms operate day to day.
His insight helps ensure AIGAS remains grounded in the realities of accounting practices, from workflows and client service through to operational pressures and technology adoption. Andy plays a key role in ensuring AIGAS is not just theoretically sound, but genuinely usable by firms across the UK.
Tax Tech & AI Advisor
Nick Stobbs
Founder of Syntax
Nick Stobbs is the founder of Syntax, a platform focused on transforming how UK tax knowledge is accessed and applied. His work centres on encoding complex tax legislation into usable systems, making specialist tax knowledge accessible at scale.
Within AIGAS, he brings a valuable perspective on how AI is being used to interpret, apply, and operationalise complex regulatory and tax frameworks.
Governance & Risk
Saima Sabir
Global Governance, Risk & Resilience Advisor
Saima Sabir is a Global Strategic Advisor with over two decades advising Boards, CEOs and founders across financial services, technology, real assets and professional services. She is recognised for strengthening governance and guiding organisations through regulatory expectations, resilience priorities, and major transformations.
Her experience spans multi-jurisdictional oversight, third-party risk and AI-enabled assurance across the UK, EU, MENA, APAC and the US. She is an international speaker on AI governance, cyber and emerging risks.
AI Governance & Risk
David Viney
ACA · CITP · Enterprise AI Governance
David Viney is an ACA and CITP with extensive experience in technology governance, risk, and large-scale systems.
He has worked at enterprise level, including within global organisations such as WPP, where he has been involved in the governance of AI and data at scale. His role within AIGAS is to help ensure the framework aligns with recognised governance principles while remaining proportionate and applicable to accounting firms.
Cyber & Risk
Markis Duggan
Group Head of Operational Risk · Paratus Group
Markis brings a wealth of experience in strategy, leadership, and risk management. He is currently the Group Head of Operational Risk for the Paratus Group of Companies, an energy price insurance company based in Mayfair.
Prior to that he was an Executive Director in Goldman Sachs Risk Division. He has extensive experience in risk management in the Cyber Security and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software industry. He holds a BSc (Hons), an MSc from Cranfield University, and an MPhil from Cambridge.
AI Systems & Implementation
Gerald Dunn
FCMA · Oxford · Business Analyst (IIBA)
Gerald (Ged) Dunn has over 35 years of experience in change management and financial control across the military and financial services technology sectors. He has worked at Dell, Cazenove, RBS, Barclays, and JPMorgan Chase.
With the acceleration of AI, he is a hands-on practitioner working with AI integration into SaaS CRM and ERP platforms including Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce. He graduated from Oxford, is a Fellow of CIMA, and is certified as a Professional Business Analyst with IIBA.
More joining soon
The board will continue to grow across regulation, cyber security, AI implementation, and operational risk.
AI governance is more than a technical challenge.
For accounting firms, AI governance is operational, ethical, and professional. The Advisory Board exists to make sure AIGAS reflects that reality across four fronts.
It also reinforces something important: AIGAS is bigger than any one individual. It is a standard shaped by broader expertise, professional challenge, and practical governance thinking.
Client confidentiality
Where AI touches client data, the standard has to reflect the confidentiality expectations of the profession.
Data protection
UK GDPR and data protection obligations sit alongside AI governance and cannot be treated separately.
Accuracy & reliance
Firms increasingly rely on AI outputs. The standard has to reflect how much reliance is appropriate, and when.
Professional accountability
Professional bodies and regulators expect firms to remain accountable for the work AI helps produce.
The board will continue to grow.
Future appointments will further strengthen expertise across regulation, cyber security, AI implementation, and operational risk.
Professional bodies & regulation
Voices from the professional bodies and regulatory environment that accounting firms operate within, to keep AIGAS aligned as expectations evolve.
Cyber security & data protection
Deeper cyber and data-protection expertise to keep AIGAS defensible against the specific risks AI introduces into a regulated professional services environment.
Independent thinking, applied to your firm.
AIGAS is built on the collective judgement of this board. See the framework they help shape, or start with the free AI Register as your entry point.