Ian Sawh

Ian Sawh is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Diligenze. He has spent more than two decades in technology, security, compliance and audit, beginning at PwC and continuing through senior practitioner and consulting roles across private equity, enterprise IT and public company environments.

He has worked on more than 500 engagements, including over 300 M&A technology due diligence reviews. Since 2018 he has served as a Senior Practitioner with Crosslake Technologies, conducting deep-dive assessments with technology and business executives across strategy and planning, portfolio and program management, product management, SDLC, governance risk and compliance, data privacy, HIPAA, agile delivery and engineering organisation design.

He has held portfolio and program leadership roles including Portfolio Manager at Ultimate Software and Program and Business Relationship Manager at ABB Optical Group, where he led large-scale implementations from letter of intent through post-implementation support.

He founded Diligenze in 2025 to bring institutional-grade technology due diligence to the lower middle market, where traditional engagements are priced out of reach. He writes about what actually surfaces in technology diligence and how it translates into deal terms.