Dan Sutherland - Meet the man fixing fraud using crypto

Dan Sutherland, Self Group.

Dan Sutherland has worked in technology for 25 years. His deep knowledge of how things are done is met by a rigorous questioning of why things are done that way, often with surprising results.

An early foray into unconventional thinking came when his managed hosting company was running services for eBay. In the days before cloud computing he realised that for them the data centre was horribly inefficient, so he persuaded them to move to a utility model, a forerunner of cloud computing, which was faster, cheaper and greener.

“It worked so well that in 2005 we took the decision to pivot from being a managed hosting business into a very early cloud company.”

He ran this business for another 11 years, before selling it to Six Degrees in 2016. Dan admits he enjoys working with cutting-edge technologies – where he can tackle big challenges.

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