CattleGrid is a British technology company built by three people who have spent careers inside enterprise technology, healthcare data, and design. One co-founder came to technology through Microsoft Healthcare and fifteen years in enterprise sales. One built the product. One shapes how it looks and how it communicates. Between them, they have watched organisations make expensive, avoidable mistakes with technology for over two decades.
Rob Harrison brings over 25 years of experience in the internet industry spanning infrastructure, security, SaaS, and software development. He founded and ran a business ISP, giving him first-hand understanding of the operational demands of delivering reliable, secure services at scale. That experience sharpened a career-long focus on bridging business requirements with technical delivery — ensuring architecture serves commercial reality, not the other way around.
His technical depth covers distributed and geolocation computing, container orchestration with Kubernetes and k3s, infrastructure-as-code with OpenTofu, and API-driven automation across multiple sectors. A hands-on engineer who still writes code and reviews architecture daily, Rob brings a rare combination of commercial instinct and deep technical fluency to everything CattleGrid builds.
Rob is a committed advocate for open-source tooling and holistic security — the principle that security is not a layer bolted on after delivery but a design constraint present from the first line of architecture. He firmly believes that every company, irrespective of size, deserves enterprise-grade protection.
CattleGrid exists because Rob saw the same problem everywhere: organisations locked out of AI’s potential by legitimate fears about data exposure, or worse, racing ahead without understanding the risks. His position is simple — every business should harness what AI can deliver, but none should have to gamble their data to do it. CattleGrid is a sovereign AI compliance gateway available as SaaS with on-premises and edge deployment options, built entirely on open-source foundations, making that belief a reality.
Brian is an experienced sales leader with over 25 years in software. He has brought award winning software solutions to market, across the UK healthcare and pharmaceutical markets.
He has an extensive background in the regulation and governance space and worked with data protection teams, Information governance leaders, NOCs/SOCs as well as some of the UKS largest software suppliers. He has worked in the Technology industry shaping and refining industry alignment and go to market strategies for start ups, scale ups, as well as dedicated UK sovereign providers and global platforms like Microsoft.
He is passionate about data privacy and the ongoing commoditisation of citizen and consumer data by corporate interests. His long experience in the industry helps shape a view that recognises the largely benign benefits of working with commodity software providers needs to be remodelled as today’s ever shifting geopolitical boundaries fundamentally realign our data requirements.
He believes open standards afford innovators and software providers alike the ability to develop new solutions to the advantages of business and the public sector alike at scale. He is excited to see UK plc harness all the innovation that AI can bring, safely, economically, securely and sustainably.
Over three decades working across design, digital communications, and technology, Jack has had a closer view than most of how UK businesses actually adopt new tools. Not in boardrooms, but in the everyday decisions made by people trying to do their jobs faster and more effectively. Working alongside clients including SAP, QinetiQ, Vodafone, and Canon, he watched organisations embrace the potential of emerging technology with genuine enthusiasm and, frequently, without anything resembling a safety harness. AI has accelerated that pattern considerably.
That observation sits at the centre of what Jack brings to CattleGrid. Communicating complex technology clearly, to people who are sceptical, time-poor, and making decisions with real consequences, is a discipline that takes years to develop. Jack has spent his career developing it.
His background spans internal and external communications, brand, and digital services, with a particular focus on helping organisations articulate what they do to audiences who need to understand it rather than be impressed by it. He founded ST Webhosting Ltd, which provides managed web hosting and digital services, and runs Jack Stafford Creative, working with SMEs on consultancy, design, and brand development.
CattleGrid’s audience does not respond to vendor theatre. Jack’s role is to ensure they never have to.
This programme admits a small number of UK and EU-based organisations into the first CattleGrid deployment cohort. Early participants help shape the product, receive preferential commercial terms and gain direct access to the product team. Places are limited, and we are accepting requests to join the waitlist.
