Sorcha Lorimer
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Sorcha Lorimer

Data Security Officer

Sorcha is an exited tech founder, operator and qualified coach. She brings product thinking, data and AI strategy and deep privacy expertise, turning complexity into decisions teams can build on.

Previously
Trace Data · Datavant · Standard Life
Industries
Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Data & AI · B2B SaaS
Her knowledge of data security and support in the minefield of the NHS has been essential to our company.
Dr Matthew Freer · CEO, Infix
About

More about Sorcha

Her career spans technology, data, privacy, product and brand. She has held senior corporate roles, worked in creative brand agencies, and built and scaled Trace Data, her data and privacy consulting and tech business, through to its acquisition by Datavant, the US healthcare data company. She has also developed SaaS products from idea through to market.

She combines deep expertise in privacy, data governance, information security risk and responsible AI with strong commercial, creative and technical instincts. She is particularly good at sitting between founders, product and engineering teams, customers and regulation: translating complexity into products, data models and practical solutions that people can actually build, use and sell.

Sorcha is a natural fit for businesses doing something new or navigating change: shaping products and propositions, solving difficult data and AI problems, entering new markets, building enterprise and investor confidence, or preparing for growth and exit. She can work as a fractional senior leader, strategic adviser, product and data partner or founder mentor.

A qualified coach, she has also provided expert mentoring to technology founders through Techstars and Barclays.

Superpowers

Where Sorcha makes the difference

Turning complexity into action

Translating complex data, AI, privacy and regulatory challenges into clear product, commercial and operational decisions

Product and data governance strategy

Shaping new products with privacy by design, intentional data models and privacy-first user journeys, hands-on from idea through to delivery

Creative problem-solving

Pragmatic, risk-based ways to make ambitious ideas work where technology, sensitive data and global data and AI regulation intersect

Building and scaling businesses

Founder and operator experience spanning proposition, GTM, enterprise customers, partnerships, team building, growth and a successful exit

Founder and leadership advisory

Strategic sounding board, qualified coach and experienced mentor through growth, difficult decisions, investment, change and exit

How it works

Working with Sorcha through Squadra

Step 01

Tell us the need

A few lines on the role and the team. We reply personally, usually within 24 hours.

Step 02

Meet Sorcha

A first call within the week, free, to check the fit both ways.

Step 03

Start within two weeks

Part-time, scaled to the gap. No full-time commitment.

Get in touch

Ask for an intro to Sorcha

Tell us a little about your company and what you need. We'll reply personally, usually within 24 hours.

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