Executive Team

Anthony Galley, Chairman

Anthony’s career started in the Contact Lens Industry where he was responsible for a number of acquisitions across Europe and the USA.

In 2001 Anthony acquired Mistral Internet, an ISP and hosting provider. Over 5 years and via a series of acquisitions as well as organic growth, sales grew by a factor of five to over £20m in revenue by 2007.  The business was successfully sold to Kingston Communications in 2007. 

Anthony is also Chairman of our sister company Global Data Vault which was created as a subsidiary of Mistral in 2002 and retained by Anthony after the sale.

Glenn Carroll – Managing Director

gcarroll [at] clouddata [dot] com

Glenn Carroll is an experienced commercial Chartered Accountant, working for over 20 years in IT, manufacturing and wholesaling companies.

Glenn was previously Chief Financial Officer and founding shareholder of Mistral Internet Group. Glenn left the company after successfully securing its acquisition by Kingston Communications (KCOM) in 2007. 

Since then, Glenn has worked as a consultant for a variety of high-tech companies and was behind the creation of Cloud Data and vision to specialise as a technology partner focussing on hosting, backup and DR. 

John Dudmesh – Technical Director

jdudmesh [at] clouddata [dot] com

John is a qualified VMware Certified Professional (VCP) with more than three decades of experience in the IT industry.

Prior to becoming one of the founding directors of Cloud Data, John was Systems Development Manager for Mistral Internet Group Ltd with overall responsibility for managing, maintaining and developing the entire internal hardware and software platform.

At Mistral, John was responsible for delivering customer-facing projects including on-demand VMware virtual server provisioning, large scale DSL circuit management and interactive telephony services.

John has a long track record of delivering complex software and hardware systems in the UK and Europe to a number of high profile clients including PepsiCo, Telewest, FedEx, Compaq, Enron and BT.