Education
Craig-Wood taught herself various programming languages and internet technologies, and after completing an Master of Science is in Biomedical Science joined Arthur Andersen business consulting as an Information Technology consultant.
Craig-Wood taught herself various programming languages and internet technologies, and after completing an Master of Science is in Biomedical Science joined Arthur Andersen business consulting as an Information Technology consultant.
She is known for promoting energy efficiency in Information Technology, women in Information Technology, and transgender acceptance. She later became head of business development for Easyspace Limited., one of the United Kingdom"s largest web hosting companies. Memset has grown rapidly since its inception.
Memset is Britain"s first carbon neutral Internet service provider. Craig-Wood is a proponent of energy-efficient computing and was a United Kingdom finalist in the 2008 BlackBerry Women and Technology awards for "best use of technology by a woman in a small to medium business".
She is a director of Intellect United Kingdom, the United Kingdom"s high-tech trade association, and chairs its climate change group. She is also involved with the British Computer Society"s efforts on green Information Technology via her committee membership of the Data Centre Specialist Group.
Craig-Wood was born in 1977 as Robert Hardy Craig-Wood. Craig-Wood was educated at the Royal Grammar School and attended the University of Southampton obtaining a 2:1 in Biomedical Science and a Masters Degree in the same field
The divorce was a result of her beginning her male-to-female gender transition, which she undertook between October 2005 and November 2006.
In March 2008 she "came out" in the Sunday Times Magazine "in the hope that she might be the role model to younger transwomen that she never had, and also to try and dispel some myths about the transgendered." In 2009, she was ranked one of Management Today"s 35 Women Under 35. She is executive committee member and trustee of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society, and is working with the group with a focus on improving medical care in the United Kingdom for young transpeople.
She has received a number of awards, including being listed 4th among the 25 most influential women in United Kingdom Information Technology in 2012. Memset has been voted best United Kingdom Web host six years running (2006–2011) and has won a number of other awards for innovation, environmental awareness and Information Technology strategy.
