User:Gaileys/sandbox

Early Life
Stephen was the third child of John McDermott Gailey and Norah Gailey. Born on the island of Malta in 1964 in the military hospital at Mtarfa. He remained on Malta unit he was two and a half year old then moved to Germany as his father (a serving soldier in the British Army) was posted. Much of Stephen's early life consisted of moving and he liven in England, Scotland and Germany for up to three years at a time as he moved around. His early education was in Military schools, whilst his Brother and Sister both attended boarding schools. He finally attended a Secondary Modern school in Bexleyheath from 13 years of age until he left having completed 'A' Levels, at 18. He briefly attended the Thames Polytechnic but dropped out after one year.

Army Life
At aged 20 Stephen joined the British Army and trained at Arborfield in Berkshire as a REME Electronics Engineer. His first posting was to the 5th Inikilling Dragoon Guards, the UK Armoured Regiment stationed at South Tidworth. He returned to Arborfield for specialist training and was then posted to 16 Air Defense Rgt RA where he received an immediate attachment to 5 Airborne Brigade and Ace Mobile Forces (L). Stephen left the Army in late 1989 after seriously injuring his knee in arduous training. His final rank was Corporal.

Career
On leaving the army Stephen moved to Bershire again where he worked as a developer of computer products for a InterQuadram Ltd (Later InterQuad). After a several months he was promoted to be the head of IT Services and ran a number of departments including the customer support teams and internal network teams. He spent a lot of time travelling throughout Europe as part of this role, particularly in Scandinavia. After a merger in 1992 Stephen left and moved to Biotech Systems, initially as a technical consultant but later as the head of Technical Services, where again he ran multiple departments. In 1995 he moved to worked for Hewlett Packard in London as their principle Security and Ecommerce consultant and in 1996 he was head-hunted to work for Nomura as head of Security and Web Services.

Stephen continued to work in Financial Services and worked at SBC Warburg, and Deutsche bank (1998 - 1999) until he started his own business, Buchanan Brown Ltd, with two work colleagues. Buchanan Brown continued trading until 2002 where a downturn in Financial Services resulted in many customers cancelling projects. Stephen then became a consultant specialising in Security and compliance until he joined Barclays Capital in 2006.

Barclays
Having initially joined as a consultant to be the interim programme director for security and compliance projects across the bank, he was asked by the Chief Operations Officer to join permanently to help set-up a security organisation for the bank. Stephen was the head of technical security until September 2008 when during the Credit Crisis he was asked to go to New York to run security and compliance work streams as part of the Lehman's Integration team. This integration was probable the most successful major integrations of all time and those involved soon found promotion easy, Stephen became the head of Security Services and was involved in integrating first Barclays Wealth and Barclays Commercial banking into Barclays Capital and then the entire banks consolidation. At this point he became the head of Security Services for the entire bank until he left to join Splunk in 2013.

Splunk
Stephen became aware of Splunk when his team acquired the technology for the bank and he was then asked by the Investment Banking team to be part of the bid for Splunk's flotation. At this time he became friends with the CEO, Godfrey Sullivan, and used this relationship to Join Splunk as the Head of Financial Services World Wide. Stephen also developed the Security Practice for Splunk, running it in EMEA until he left in 2017.

Exabeam
Stephen currently works at Exabeam as the head of Solutions Architecture.

Personal Life
Stephen Married Melanie Sillett in 1995 at Sommerhill in Tonbridge and has two children, Emily, born in 1996 and Patrick born in 1998. They now live in Kent in England. Stephen has dual British/Irish nationality.