Data Asset Foundation Specialists, Isle of Man
An independent, international service provider based in the Isle of Man, with a sister company in Jersey. For over 30 years we have built our reputation on personal relationships, attention to detail, and genuinely bespoke service.
Cavendish Trust Company Limited is a niche international service provider based in Douglas, Isle of Man. We have built a track record across a wide range of sectors: trust, corporate, foundations, e-gaming, fintech, space and satellite services, aviation, and blockchain. We bring that breadth of experience to bear on the Isle of Man's data asset foundation initiative, which Cavendish is actively involved in shaping alongside Digital Isle of Man.
Our independence is central to everything we do. We work alongside other professional advisers and specialists without conflict, ensuring our service is always shaped entirely by the client's interests.
Cavendish is invested in the DAF initiative and is actively engaged. Rick Landman participates in working groups with Digital Isle of Man, contributing directly to the ongoing development of the framework and helping to shape the regime into a practical, credible structure for data asset governance. That active involvement means Cavendish understands the regime not just as published policy but as a living framework still being refined in real time, and it positions us to guide clients through the process with a depth of context that goes well beyond reading the documentation.
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DAF Initiative Lead, Cavendish Trust Company Limited
Rick Landman is the driving force behind Cavendish Trust's Data Asset Foundation offering and is actively involved in the initiative as it develops. A seasoned professional with deep roots in data governance, data security, and data architecture, Rick participates in working groups with Digital Isle of Man and is contributing directly to shaping the framework as it progresses through parliament. He recognised early that the DAF regime represents something genuinely new: the first statutory framework capable of giving data the legal standing and governance rigour it deserves as a commercial asset.
Rick brings hands-on experience across the full data governance lifecycle, spanning strategy and framework design through to technical implementation, security architecture, and compliance. That breadth means he understands not only how to navigate the DAF regime's requirements, but also how to assess whether a given dataset is genuinely ready for the governance obligations a Foundation demands.
He has worked with organisations across financial services, technology, and the data economy, and approaches every engagement with the same belief: that good data governance is not a compliance burden but a competitive advantage. The DAF regime, in his view, is the first statutory instrument that makes that case in a meaningful way.
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Registered Agent, CSP, AAP accreditation, and Data Enforcer services from a single firm. One relationship across every stage of the Foundation lifecycle.
Where clients already have a CSP, we work alongside them without conflict. We offer the complete range of services, and where you have an existing arrangement, we respect it entirely.
Rick has followed the DAF regime from its earliest development and built Cavendish's methodology and tooling to reflect the most current published framework.
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