Kate Craig-Wood

Kate Helen Craig-Wood, born on 1 February 1977 in Surrey, England, and died on 22 September 2020, was a British IT entrepreneur who co-founded and ran Memset Dedicated Hosting. She taught herself programming and internet technologies after a degree and master's in biomedical sciences at the University of Southampton, then worked as an IT consultant at Arthur Andersen and as head of business development at the web hosting company Easyspace. In 2002 she left Easyspace and founded Memset with her brother Nick. The company grew quickly, was described as Britain's first carbon neutral internet service provider, and was voted best UK web host six years running from 2006 to 2011. She argued for energy-efficient computing and green IT, served as a director of the technology trade association Intellect UK, where she chaired its climate change group, and worked with the British Computer Society on green IT. She was a trans woman who spoke publicly to encourage acceptance of trans people and women in IT, and served as a trustee of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society. Memset was sold to iomart in 2020.