MD, Memset Dedicated Hosting
Guildford, United Kingdom
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- MD/CEO at Memset Ltd.
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- Business development manager at Easyspace Ltd
- Business Analyst at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting
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Kate Craig-Wood’s Summary
I am the Managing Director and co-founder of Memset Dedicated Hosting. Memset is Britain's first Carbon Neutral ISP and has won a number of awards for innovation, service and IT strategy including been voted best UK Web host 2006, 2007 & 2008 by PCPro magazine readers. Memset also recently joined the Deloitte UK Techology Fast 50. I have a number of focus areas outside Memset:
== Environment ==
I am passionate about green IT, am part of Intellect UK's directorial steering group on energy & environment, and sit on the BCS's Data Centre Specialist Group committee. I speak frequently on the topic, and Memset continues to lead its competitors in the field of energy-efficient hosting, recently being awarded PCPro's environmental innovator award.
== Women in IT ==
I am working to improve the number of women in technology. I am part of Intellect's women in IT forum management group, and one of their spokeswomen on the topic with a main focus on getting more girls interested in technology. I recently became the first woman to tandem-skydive past Mt. Everest in order to raise money for Computer Clubs 4 Girls.
== Business representation ==
I sit on the main & operations boards of Intellect UK, the UK's high-tech trade association (whose members represent 10% of UK GDP), am a director of the Surrey chambers of commerce and the vice-chair of her local IOD branch. Through those positions I work to represent the needs of high-growth, innovative, technology SME's.
== Improved care for the transgendered ==
Finally, I am one of the the lucky few transwomen who could afford proper treatment and therefore look normal and am thus able to lead a full life. I am a trustee of GIRES (the Gender Identity Reserch and Education Society), and am working to improve medical care for transexual people in the UK, especially children.
Kate Craig-Wood’s Specialties:
dedicated server hosting, web hosting, it hosting, green it, women in it, server clusters, outsourcing it, it infrastructure
Kate Craig-Wood’s Experience
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MD/CEO
Memset Ltd.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)
Managing director & co-founder of one of the UK's leading dedicated server / Web hosting companies.
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Business development manager
Easyspace Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Originally lead e-commerce developer, but role rapidly expanded to encompass management & business development responsibilities.
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Business Analyst
Arthur Andersen Business Consulting
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
December 1999 — February 2000 (3 months)
Junior management consultant with the IT division of Arthur Andersen's Business Consulting section (the replacement to their estranged child, Andersen Consulting now Accenture).
This position was brief since I was "poached" by Easyspace with an offer that was (as it turned out) too good to be true. Ah, the Internet boom ;)
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Kate Craig-Wood’s Interests:
dedicated servers, ict, internet, science, technology, scuba, skiing, flying helicopters, motorbikes
Kate Craig-Wood’s Groups:
Board member, Intellect UK, the UK high-tech trade association,
Director, Institute of Directors, West Surrey Branch,
Director, Surrey Chambers of Commerce,
Surrey Enterprise Hub,
RSA
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GreenITers - The Clean Tech Global Thinkers -
Institute of Directors - Members Only -
Surrey Chambers of Commerce -
Intellect - representing the UK technology industry - members only
Kate Craig-Wood’s Honors:
PC Pro Best Web Host 2006, 2007 & 2008
PC Pro environmental innovator award 2008
Deliotte UK Technology Fast 50 2008
Natwest Everywoman Demeter award 2008 (winner yet to be announced)
BCS Environment and Information Security & Data Management awards 2008
Blackberry Women & IT awards finalist 2008
European green IT market leadership award finalist 2008
Chambers of Commerce SE IT strategy award
Computing awards finalist; IT strategy in a SME
Guildford green award
Surrey Business award for Innovation
Kate Craig-Wood’s Contact Settings
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