The UKtech50: The top 20

An award-winning technology entrepreneur, Kate Craig-Wood is co-founder and managing director of cloud company Memset. She is an advocate of green IT and cloud computing, chairs Intellect’s climate change group and was also a key player in the technical architecture of the Cabinet Office’s G-Cloud and App Store project.

Craig-Wood is the youngest-ever main board member of Intellect, the UK’s high-tech trade association, and was recently selected to join a government mission to San Francisco to showcase the best of British cloud computing technology to Silicon Valley. She also won this year’s Social Media Champion accolade at Computer Weekly’s Social Media Awards.