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Jason’s first exposure to Ark was as the lead hosting enterprise architect for the UK Ministry of Justice. Tasked with consolidating the back-office IT of eleven data centres into two using private cloud infrastructures, Ark bid for and won the contract for the two data centres. Jason liked the innovation and forward thinking of Ark so much that he joined in 2014 as their CTO and was instrumental in winning the Crown Hosting contract, awarded by Cabinet Office in 2015. Alongside his role as Ark’s CTO, Jason also simultaneously served as CIO to Crown Hosting Data Centres Ltd which addressed the growing needs of the public sector. In 2020 Jason left to become a consultant to the Cabinet Office and Crown Commercial Service, within the Crown Hosting Framework Authority to assist with the steering of central government’s aims towards a public cloud future, using Crown Hosting as a bridging step from traditional IT services. This led to changes in the UK Government’s Cloud First Policy and the award of the Crown Hosting II Contract (RM6262). In January 2024, Jason re-joined Ark as the CEO to Crown Hosting Data Centres Ltd and is looking to make greater inroads into the digital transformation journey of the public sector.