The Cloud Council provides strategic direction for techUK’s Cloud Computing Programme, ensuring the programme accurately reflects members’ priorities. The Council sits for a term of two years and helps to identify key opportunities and challenges for accelerating cloud adoption in the UK, informs the development of techUK’s policy priorities regarding cloud services, and participates in thought leadership campaigns relating to cloud computing.
This is an elected group composed of representatives from techUK members. To find out more about the election process and timetable, please contact the group managers at the bottom of the page.
The Council has elected the following Chair and Vice-Chairs:
Ksenia Duxfield-Karyakina
Ksenia Duxfield-Karyakina
The full list of members:
Full Name |
Member Company |
| Adam Cockburn | Axiologik Ltd |
| Benjamin Shrive | AMD |
| Caoimhin Graham | Kainos Software |
| Cheryl Razzell | AWS |
| Danny Wootton | Nexor Limited |
| David Hewitt | IBM |
| Duncan Fortescue | Raytheon UK |
| Edward Pearson | Civiteq |
| Gurvinder (Vic) Gabrie | Red Hat |
| Helen Gerling | Shaping Cloud |
| Ismaeel Sulaiman | British Telecom (BT) PLC |
| Jason Rees | Oracle |
| Joe Baguley | Broadcom |
| John Aacht | CloudFruition Technologies Ltd |
| John Abel | Google Cloud |
| Jonathan Grice | KPMG |
| Ksenia Duxfield-Karyakina | Forefront Advisers |
| Mark Sutcliffe | HPE |
| Martin Smith | PwC |
| Matt Johnson | UBDS |
| Matthew Barnard | BBD Software Ltd |
| Mr Ian Stevens | CMS |
| Nick Reid | CoreWeave |
| Nigel Gibbons | NCC Plc |
| Olivier Subramanian | CGI |
| Paul Bevis | FSP Consulting Service Limited |
| Paul Cantle | Ntegra (Actica) |
| Rahul Gupta | Pa consulting services |
| Runita Virdee | Kyndryl |
| Seb Matthews | Adarga |
| Simon Bennett | Rackspace Technology |
| Yesbol Gabdullin | Uptitude |
| Yuliia Habriiel | eyreACT: AI Compliance-as-a-Service Platform |
Chris Hazell
Sophie Greaves
Sophie Greaves
Sophie Greaves is Associate Director for Digital Infrastructure at techUK, overseeing the Telecoms Programme, the Data Centres Programme, and the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.
Sophie leads our work across telecoms networks, security and resilience, supply chain diversification, advanced communications technologies, spectrum policy, and data centres - bringing these areas together into a dedicated Digital Infrastructure unit. She was previously Head of Telecoms and Spectrum Policy.
Prior to joining techUK, Sophie completed a masters in Film Studies at University College London; her dissertation examined US telecoms policy relating to net neutrality and content distribution.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 0207 331 2038
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegreaves/,https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegreaves/
