It’s not unusual for senior civil servants to leave their public-sector positions and land at a private sector organisation. And so, it has come to pass for Iain Patterson… The former Director of Common Technology Services (CTS) at the Government Digital Service (CTS), who left that position in May this year, has joined infrastructure-as-a-service provider, UKCloud. He will be the company’s Chief Digital Officer (CDO).
According to UKCloud CEO, Simon Hansford, “I pounced quicker than others to get him here! It is a great validation of our platform and the opportunity that an ex civil servant from GDS sees in what we are doing.”
Initially, Patterson will help review UKCloud’s technical platform and operations, its product propositions and its external messaging. UKCloud has launched several new products and platforms over the years to meet the demands of different types of workload, e.g. cloud native apps, big data platforms or specific applications (such as Oracle). Most recently it launched a new healthcare division addressing some of the specific concerns of that sector (see UKCloud launches healthcare division).