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With over 25 years of experience in cloud, managed services, and e-business, Andrew has a successful track record of aligning new and transformative technology with business objectives. He’s held key roles in the startup, strategic planning, and consultative sales development of technology-driven businesses. In the process, Andrew has built and led multicultural and multi-regional teams through periods of high growth and stability, as well as through economic downturns. This resulted in developing and leading some of the biggest managed cloud projects in the UK, such as The O2, Westfield White City Shopping Centre, Wembley Stadium, and Ascot Racecourse.

He is now CEO and co-founder of his third startup leveraging 6 years of expertise in GRID and edge graphics computing with a specialisation in high-end virtual and augmented reality

Ben Jones is the co-founder and CTO of THE GRID FACTORY. As CTO, he mainly works in areas such as virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, resource intensive 3D applications, and multi-GPU environments.

Ben is a long-term contributor on the NVIDIA vGPU (link to NVIDIA vGPU page) forums and is one of the founding members of the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor Program. He built his career with roles in consultancy, engineering, and system architecture. Ben also spent several years working heavily with server hardware and remoting technologies, such as Citrix and VMware, before changing focus to NVIDIA technologies.

Adrian Godfrey is in charge of THE GRID FACTORY’s business strategy and development. He first joined the company in September 2020 as interim COO. Now, he is focused on the role of immersive solution’s across different locations and sectors as well as creating shared value proposition for customers, consumers, and ecosystem partners.  
 
Adrian’s previous roles include VP of Strategic Partnerships at Pearson, Director of Mobile Education at the GSMA and Director of Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). In all of his prior positions, he has been responsible for consulting on digital transformation and business development, while specialising in partnerships. In addition, Adrian is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and is a trustee of Digital Opportunity Trust (uk.dotrust.org).  

Rakesh is the Lead VMware Architect at THE GRID FACTORY. In this role, he builds complex systems which incorporate NVIDIA technology including vGPU and CloudXR. His expertise is in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, which entails the use of a virtual machine to deploy and update work from a centralised location.

He has previously worked in the defence industry as a system integrator, designer and technical authority. In these roles Rakesh delivered complex systems on Naval platforms.