Leadership

Paul Acton is a technology entrepreneur and business leader with more than 25 years' experience helping organisations reimagine how they use technology, cloud, and digital infrastructure.

He is the Founder & Director of VMease, a technology company building an AI-driven private cloud platform that gives organisations a simpler, lower-cost, and more sovereign alternative to traditional virtualisation and public cloud.

Paul's career spans senior leadership within global technology companies and hands-on experience building businesses from the ground up. He has held leadership roles at major blue-chip IT organisations and tech startups. He has proven thought leadership and experience in leading cloud, managed services, and digital transformation programmes across Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Having seen first-hand the growing frustration around rising cloud costs, increasing complexity, and eroding control within traditional virtualisation platforms, Paul set out to build something different. VMease exists to help organisations reclaim control of their infrastructure through automation, simplicity, and open technologies, while preserving data sovereignty and operational independence.

Under his leadership, VMease is building strategic partnerships and expanding into the UK, Europe, and Caribbean markets, positioning itself at the forefront of the next generation of private cloud infrastructure.

Steve Shellswell is a cloud infrastructure architect and technology leader with more than 15 years of experience designing, building, and operating enterprise infrastructure, managed cloud platforms, and mission-critical technology environments.

Prior to co-founding VMease, Steve held senior technical and infrastructure roles with organisations including Sure, Calligo, C5 Alliance, BT, and Foreshore, delivering solutions across enterprise, service provider, and regulated sectors.

Throughout his career, Steve has specialised in virtualization, cloud operations, networking, automation, and infrastructure resilience. He is passionate about simplifying complex technology and believes infrastructure should be powerful, reliable, and easy to operate.

That belief helped shape the vision behind VMease. Having seen the growing complexity and cost associated with traditional virtualization platforms, Steve set out to build a smarter alternative—one that combines intelligent automation, operational simplicity, and open technologies to give organisations greater control, flexibility, and efficiency.