Ashley Ward
Principal Solutions Architect, Minimus
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Ashley Ward is Principal Solutions Architect at Minimus, where he helps organisations strengthen trust, resilience, and security across their cloud-native environments. His work focuses on enabling customers to adopt minimal, standards-aligned container images that reduce risk while supporting scale. He brings extensive leadership experience from previous roles including Group CTO at a publicly listed company with revenues exceeding €4.5B, CTO within a cloud-native consultancy, and Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Palo Alto Networks. His career spans enterprise architecture, product strategy, and technical due diligence, consistently bridging innovation with practical execution. Ashley serves as a Non-Executive Director on the OpenUK board, where he champions open software, hardware, data, standards, and AI.
