Saima Sabir Joins PPCS AIGAS™ Advisory Board
PPCS Announces Saima Sabir as AIGAS™ Advisory Board Member
Prime PC Services (PPCS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Saima Sabir to the AIGAS™ (AI Governance Assurance Standard) Advisory Board. Saima brings more than 20 years of international leadership experience across governance, risk, compliance, regulatory transformation, and AI governance, with a strong track record advising boards, CEOs, founders, and executive teams through complex change.
Saima Sabir
Global Strategic Advisor & AI Ambassador
Governance, Risk & Compliance Leader
Risk & Compliance
Regulatory Strategy
Operational Resilience
A globally experienced advisor with expertise spanning governance, emerging technology, supervisory engagement, operational resilience, and responsible innovation across regulated and growth-stage organisations.
Why AIGAS™ Needs an Independent Advisory Board
AI is already becoming embedded across the accounting technology stack — from client workflows and document automation to analytics, compliance monitoring, and decision support. But while adoption is accelerating, governance often lags behind implementation.
This is the gap AIGAS™ is designed to solve.
From the outset, PPCS has been clear on one principle: AIGAS™ must not be a vendor-led or commercially biased framework. For it to be trusted by accountants, regulators, insurers, and clients alike, it must be:
- ✓Independent in its thinking
- ✓Grounded in real-world risk and governance practice
- ✓Practical for firms of all sizes
- ✓Aligned with recognised governance principles and global standards such as ISO 42001
The AIGAS™ Advisory Board exists to ensure exactly that. It brings together experienced professionals from across technology, accounting, operational risk, regulation, cyber security, and governance — individuals who understand how frameworks must operate when tested in real organisations.
Introducing Saima Sabir
We are delighted to welcome Saima Sabir to the board. Saima brings a powerful combination of governance expertise, international regulatory perspective, AI governance insight, and practical experience helping leadership teams manage risk through periods of transformation.
Over more than two decades, she has advised boards, CEOs, founders, and senior executive teams across financial services, financial market infrastructure, technology, and real assets. Her work spans the UK, EU, MENA, APAC, and the US, giving her a genuinely global perspective on governance, oversight, and resilience.
Saima’s experience is especially relevant to AIGAS™ because it sits at the intersection of:
- ✓Board and executive advisory
- ✓Governance, risk, and compliance leadership
- ✓Regulatory transformation and supervisory engagement
- ✓AI governance, cyber risk, and emerging risk
- ✓Operational resilience and commercially grounded implementation
Saima Sabir — Full Bio
Saima Sabir is a Global Strategic Advisor, AI Ambassador, and board-level governance, risk, and compliance expert with more than 20 years of experience. She has built a reputation for helping organisations navigate complexity with clear judgement, practical execution, and a strong understanding of both regulatory scrutiny and commercial reality.
Across her career, Saima has advised boards, CEOs, founders, and executive teams across financial services, financial market infrastructure, technology, and real assets. Her work spans the UK, EU, MENA, APAC, and the US, supporting organisations through transformation programmes, governance uplift, regulatory expectations, and enterprise-wide risk and compliance challenges.
She is also an international public speaker on AI governance, cyber, geopolitics, emerging risks, and emerging markets. Her perspective is especially valuable at a time when organisations are moving from AI experimentation to real deployment and need frameworks that balance innovation with accountability, resilience, and trust.
Saima is known for a practical, commercially grounded approach to governance — one that helps organisations scale responsibly while staying future-ready. That combination of board-level oversight and implementation realism makes her exceptionally well placed to support the development of AIGAS™.
Global Strategic Advisor & AI Ambassador
- AI governance and responsible adoption
- Governance, risk, and compliance leadership
- Operational resilience and regulatory credibility
- Cyber, geopolitics, and emerging risk
Why This Matters for Accounting Firms
The accounting profession is entering a period where AI capability will increasingly shape firm value, client trust, operational efficiency, and risk exposure.
But with that comes new questions:
- ▸How do firms evidence responsible AI governance to clients, regulators, insurers, and professional bodies?
- ▸How do they balance innovation with accountability, oversight, confidentiality, and consistency of delivery?
- ▸How do they respond to emerging expectations around resilience, explainability, and control?
- ▸How do they build governance frameworks that are practical enough to work in real firms?
AIGAS™ is being built to provide clear, practical answers to those questions — not through theory alone, but through real-world, implementable frameworks.
Saima’s experience in governance, regulatory complexity, executive advisory, and responsible technology adoption will help ensure AIGAS™ remains both credible and usable for firms navigating the next phase of AI implementation.
Building Something That Lasts
The long-term vision for AIGAS™ is not just a certification — it is a living standard, shaped by practitioners, evolving with technology, and grounded in the operational realities of accounting firms.
The Advisory Board is central to that vision. It ensures that AIGAS™:
- ➤Maintains independence from any single vendor or commercial influence
- ➤Reflects real governance, compliance, and operational challenges faced by firms
- ➤Stands up to scrutiny from insurers, regulators, professional bodies, and clients
- ➤Continues to evolve as AI capabilities, expectations, and risks develop
PPCS
PPCS specialises in cybersecurity and governance for accounting firms, helping practices implement Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, and now AI governance through AIGAS™.
Our focus is simple: practical, achievable frameworks that improve resilience, build trust, and enable growth.
Chair, AIGAS™ Advisory Board
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