MEMSET Dedicated Hosting

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About Us

|The core team|

As with any successful, growing organisation there are some key people at the top who make it what it is, and we would like to introduce them to you.

Kate Craig-Wood, Managing Director

Kate Craig-Wood

Kate has long been involved in Information Technology & business, and has core technical skills in e-Commerce systems development. Although initially a Web developer for MBA Systems Ltd., after obtaining her Masters Degree in Biomedical Science she started her career in Management Consulting with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. She soon moved to Easyspace Ltd, the UK's first ICANN Accredited domain Registrar and the biggest domain registration & hosting provider of the time. Her role within Easyspace rapidly expanded from head of eCommerce development to business development manager and beyond. By mid-2002 she had gained extensive expertise in the Internet hosting sector and branched out to found Memset with her brother, Nick.

Nick Craig-Wood, Technical Director

Nick Craig-Wood

After collecting his Masters Degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, Nick took his deep mathematical & IT skills to the communications sector and gained specialisms in cryptography and compression algorithms. Since then he co-founded Alphawave Ltd. which specialises in Satellite Communications control and monitoring software. He has always been an active member of the Linux & Open Source communities and is expert in Linux systems administration and network communications as well as being an unusually highly skilled developer in many programming languages. He honed his expertise in the Web Hosting industry during his time as CTO of Easyspace Ltd. before moving on to co-found Memset. Nick's deep technical skills are invaluable to Memset and he has been the key driver behind the development of our Miniserver™ technology.

Alex Coke-Smyth, Chief Systems Administrator

Alex Coke-Smyth

Following obtaining his degree, Alex moved immediately into professional Linux systems administration. Over the last several years he has been responsible for a range of system architectures, with a specific focus on Internet Presence Provision. In more recent years he has become expert in Internet security and the challenges therein. He now oversees the systems supporting our 1,000-odd servers with his small team, and his deep networking, security and systems management skills are invaluable to the company.

Nathan Johnston, Head of Sales

Nathan Johnston

Nathan finished his Degree in History and Philosophy in 1995. He has been working in many IT Sales jobs since 1997. His career started working with Database Mining tools and while working at Information Advantage and IQ Software he was involved with such companies as Sainsburys and Hoover. Since then he move to Security Software and these jobs include working for 3 years at Computer Associates where Nathan worked closely with many FTSE 500 companies helping them implement security solutions. Following this Nathan moved to Caretower in North London where he worked for two and a half years as UK Distribution Product Manager for Omniquad selling mainly Anti-Spy, URL Filtering and SPAM filtering Software direct to end user organisations. Nathan joined Memset in 2005 and is now responsible for all of our sales and Marketing activities.