Vault Cloud's Board of Directors
Peter Lawrence
Chair
Peter brings a wealth of experience across multiple industries including Defence, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Utilities and Resources covering the Public and Private sectors. He has held senior positions in technology both domestically and internationally having worked in the UK, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and across Asia. Most recently Peter has been working with HESTA and prior to that O2 in the UK. Peter held the position of Chief Information Officer in the Department of Defence from 2012-2017.
Margaret Staib
Non Executive Director
Margaret brings with her expertise in defence, national security, transport and logistics, aviation and aerospace, technology, cultural change and organisational transformation. Prior to joining the Vault Board, Margaret commenced her professional career as a military logistician with the Australian Air Force. Her military service included holding the position of Commander Joint Logistics and Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy. From the Air Force, Margaret continued her executive career as the CEO and Managing Director of Air Services Australia, the air navigation, and air traffic management organisation for Australia.
Rupert Taylor-Price
Director
Rupert leads the development and execution of Vault Cloud’s long-term strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders. Rupert founded Vault Cloud in 2012, driven by his strong desire to improve citizens’ lives through government. He has a long history of handling sensitive data, stemming from his eight years as Chief Executive Officer at JN Solutions. While at JN Solutions, Rupert developed a world-leading SaaS (Software as a Service) Information Management Platform for the Australian Government, which provided extensive support to the community services sector.
Vault Cloud's Leadership Team
Rupert Taylor-Price
Chief Executive Officer
Rupert leads the development and execution of Vault Cloud’s long-term strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders. Rupert founded Vault Cloud in 2012, driven by his strong desire to improve citizens’ lives through government. He has a long history of handling sensitive data, stemming from his eight years as Chief Executive Officer at JN Solutions. While at JN Solutions, Rupert developed a world-leading SaaS (Software as a Service) Information Management Platform for the Australian Government, which provided extensive support to the community services sector.
Joe Ruggero
Chief Operating Officer
Joe leads the operational and organisational execution of Vault’s strategic plan in collaboration with key stakeholders.
Having successfully scaled technology businesses globally. He brings a long history of strategic, operational and human cohesiveness to an organisation having held roles across Global Operations Finance, Commercial Execution, Project Delivery and Corporate Development, including 10+ years of global roles outside of Australia.
Andrew Boniface
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew retains full end to end responsibility for the finance and risk management functions at Vault Cloud.
He brings extensive experience to his role, with over 20 years in both the professional services sector and more recently in the technology sector, where he held senior roles at ASX listed and scale up companies.
Patricia Taylor
Chief People & Culture Officer
Patricia leads the strategic and operational execution of People & Culture, driving growth through high-performing teams and scalable systems.
With experience in FinTech, SaaS, and financial services, she has supported M&A activities and workforce transitions. Renowned for commercial acumen, Patricia advises boards and executives on growth and cultural shifts. She brings international experience and is dedicated to fostering inclusive, high-trust environments.
James McManus
Chief Information Security Officer
James directs Vault Cloud’s information security initiatives as Chief Information Security Officer, driven by a lifelong passion for Information Technology and Cyber Security.
With a robust background in the defense and technology sectors, he has previously held significant roles at Thales, BAE Digital Intelligence, and Tesserent. A recognized specialist in governance, risk, and compliance, James possesses extensive expertise in operational technology and cloud security.
Unleashing Innovation
Government and critical industries need to able to quickly adapt to changing market conditions, which can be difficult when your organisation is caught up in the complexities of hardware and long-term budgeting. Vault provides you with future-proof cloud infrastructure that’s flexible; able to grow with your data needs while making data safely accessible to end users.
Our services leverage the strengths of your existing team. We liberate your innovators to create business solutions that work, while coders can focus on their core competency. Network engineers have the freedom to deploy environments that are trusted, secure and lightning fast.
Delivering Security at Scale
Vault Cloud’s secure data centres are staffed around the clock to provide consistent, fast and scalable performance. That means you can trust us with your security, performance, reliability and capacity, while you focus on your core business.
Ensuring Flexibility Through Open Standards
OpenStack is our core technology. It allows us to offer greater flexibility to grow and iterate on a cloud platform without being locked into a specific vendor. OpenStack is one of the world’s fastest growing open-source communities and the largest and most widely adopted open-source cloud platform. Work undertaken on the OpenStack platform can be leveraged across most clouds.
OpenStack is built on open standards and works well with popular enterprise and open source technologies. This makes it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure, just like Vault Cloud. OpenStack’s in-built security, complete scalability, open standards and interoperable platform all work seamlessly with Vault’s cloud.
Investing in Technology
We are the only Australian Hyperscale cloud built exclusively for security. We have engineered high-performance systems designed to scale up and scale out to deliver order of magnitude performance on legacy IT systems.
Keeping Data in Australia
Vault Cloud operates out of world-class data centres specifically designed for accommodating sensitive data and workloads with strict operating controls. Our two data centres in Sydney and Canberra are centrally located to provide easy access to your critical data and infrastructure, regardless of your physical location, equipped with fully-redundant optical fibre connectivity for lightning-fast response times. Through these data centres, we provide a holistic cloud-computing environment that addresses requirements for Block storage, Object storage, Compute, Virtual networking, Auto-scaling resources, and Automation.
Delivering Local Support
Our cloud was built to cater for intensive legacy workloads, but many intensive legacy workloads were not built for the cloud. We recognised early on that many large, legacy systems need to scale up first in order to be easily migrated, which is why over 94% of our infrastructure is common to the latest supercomputer.
AIIA Awards
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is Australia’s peak industry body for the technology sector. The AIIA’s iAwards has been Australia’s leading awards program for innovation in the digital economy for more than 25 years. Each year the iAwards publicly recognise the exceptional achievements of those at the forefront of Australian innovation.
AIIA ACT Awards 2020
Not-for-Profit and Community Solution Award
National iAwards 2018
Big Data Innovation of the Year | Merit Recipient
ACT iAwards 2018
Big Data Innovation of the Year
ACT iAwards 2017
Infrastructure & Platforms Innovation of the Year
ACT iAwards 2017
Public Sector & Government Markets
IRAP ASSESSMENT
Vault Cloud has achieved IRAP assessments for PROTECTED, SECRET, and SIG classifications, demonstrating our commitment to meeting stringent security standards.
We are proud of our IRAP assessments, as they position us among a select group of organizations that meet the Australian Government's rigorous security requirements.
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