Leadership
People who have run the systems our customers are trying to protect
Vault Cloud UK is led by a team drawn from UK government technology, Defence, national security and high-growth industry — people who have sat on the customer side of these problems before building the answer to them.
Governance
Mike Stone
Chairman
Former UK Government Chief Digital and Information Officer, with a career built on large-scale public sector transformation. Previously Global Managing Director for Public Sector, Healthcare and Life Sciences at IBM, and Global Chair of Defence and National Security at KPMG.
Mike Feltham
Chief Executive Officer
Former Defence Chief Technology Officer, specialising in secure collaboration, sovereign capability and interoperability. A career spanning government and industry, including Chief Information Officer roles in insurance and financial services.
General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE
Non-Executive Director
Former four-star Commander of Joint Forces Command, with deep experience of Defence transformation and national resilience.
Gaven Smith
Non-Executive Director
Former Director General for Technology in UK Government and Chief Technology Officer at GCHQ, with more than thirty years in national security.
Running the business
David Haydock
Finance Director
A senior finance executive whose career spans Defence, technology and high-growth commercial businesses.
John Cook
Chief Information Security Officer
Former MOD Chief Information Security Officer, who led the introduction of the MOD Secure by Design framework. Brings deep expertise in security, assurance and accreditation.
Founder
Rupert Taylor-Price
Founder and Chief Executive, Vault Cloud Group
Founded Vault Cloud in 2012 and built it into Australia's leading sovereign cloud provider. Formerly Chief Executive of JN Solutions, he leads group strategy across the AUKUS expansion.
Vault Cloud UK is separately owned and operated under UK jurisdiction. What the group shares is engineering, not control — a common platform lineage, hardened once and maintained across all three nations.
Talk to the people who will actually run your workload
Our team is small, senior and directly involved. If you want to test whether Vault is the right fit, you will be talking to the people who build it.