Summary

  • Vorboss Limited's registered control has not moved since 27 November 2020, but its board and executive leadership have been rebuilt since the founder's October 2025 departure and his December 2025 announcement of litigation.
  • The company filed full accounts to 30 June 2025 on 17 May 2026; their contents are not established in any public source examined here.
  • Three public figures for the network's fibre length — more than 600km, 700km and over 900km — circulate without a reconciling basis.

Vorboss Limited is the London-focused business-fibre operator behind AS25160, a company that has drawn increasing attention less for its network than for the question of who runs it. This article assembles the dated public record from the twelve months since the founder's exit and separates three layers that are easy to blur together: what the corporate register shows, what secondary reporting asserts, and what no public source measures at all.

The register. Vorboss Limited (company number 05678571) remains an active private limited company, with full accounts made up to 30 June 2025 filed on 17 May 2026, a confirmation statement dated 22 March 2026 filed on 16 April 2026, and the next accounts due by 31 March 2027 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05678571; https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05678571/filing-history). The filing history records a sequence of officer changes that constitutes the post-founder reconstruction: John Julian Browett's directorship terminated on 13 May 2025, the same day Adam Charles Dunlop was appointed; Timothy Aidan Creswick's directorship terminated on 21 October 2025, filed the following day; Robert James Skinner's appointment ended on 12 December 2025, the same day Bryony Marshall was appointed; and Rhodri Charles Kenneth Morgan was appointed a director on 1 May 2026 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05678571/filing-history). The officers register confirms Marshall as an active director appointed 12 December 2025, with identity verification complete (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05678571/filing-history; https://open.endole.co.uk/insight/people/32742240-bryony-marshall).

Control. None of these changes touched the persons-with-significant-control register. Fern Fibre Limited (company 11783185) has been the sole active person with significant control since notification on 27 November 2020, holding 75% or more of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. Creswick's own PSC entry ceased on that same November 2020 date. Whatever the founder dispute involves, registered control has not changed through it (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05678571/persons-with-significant-control). Fern Trading's shareholder-information page places Vorboss within the Fern Trading Group, managed and advised by Octopus Investments (https://ferntrading.com/shareholder-information/).

The dispute. On 14 December 2025, Creswick published on LinkedIn that he had resigned as chief executive "a few weeks" earlier, that the departure was not amicable, that he had hoped Octopus Investments would "put things right", and that he was beginning a "rather public legal battle" against the company he founded twenty years earlier (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tcreswick_completing-the-final-step-in-the-founder-activity-7406042717266419712-rKAJ). ISPreview reported the statement on 16 December 2025, noting that the grounds and status of the dispute were not public and that Vorboss had not yet responded to its request for comment (https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/12/former-ceo-and-founder-of-london-full-fibre-isp-vorboss-to-sue-company.html). Fibre Provider reported the action the day before, framing it as directed at Vorboss and Octopus Investments (https://fibreprovider.net/news/creswick-takes-legal-battle-octopus-investments). The critical evidentiary point: no claim number, forum or filing date appears in any public source located for this article, and Companies House does not record litigation. The lawsuit exists in the public record so far only as its author's own announcement and its press amplification.

The accounts question. Full accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 were filed on 17 May 2026 — thirty-seven pages that would answer the central financial questions about the post-founder year (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05678571/filing-history). Their contents were not directly read in the research for this article, and this article therefore asserts nothing about Vorboss Limited's own FY2025 revenue, loss or going-concern language. What exists is context of varying reliability. Contemporaneous reporting at the October 2025 exit cited FY2024 figures: pre-tax losses of more than £55m on revenues of £3.5m and net liabilities of £87m, with Fern Trading stating an intent to support the company for twelve months (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boss-octopus-owned-broadband-firm-091429646.html). Third-party aggregators attribute to the latest filed accounts a turnover of £4.05m, total assets of £129.42m, liabilities of £275.88m and net assets of minus £146.47m — figures that are not the filed accounts themselves, whose reporting basis (company versus group) is unstated, and which conflict in basis with the FY2024 net-liabilities figure (https://explore.datagardener.com/company/vorboss-limited-05678571; https://open.endole.co.uk/insight/people/32742240-bryony-marshall). The gap between a filed document and an aggregator's parse of it is precisely where this article declines to follow.

The parent's own numbers. Fern Trading's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2025 is available only as provider-reported text extraction; the PDF was not page-verified, and every figure drawn from it carries that caveat. The extraction states group revenue of £685m in 2025, an accounting loss attributed mainly to higher operational costs in the fibre division "as we near the end of its build-out phase", a write-off of surplus stock and assets "amounting to £100m", and an expectation that the fibre division will not report a profit in the coming three financial years. It describes Vorboss as having laid "more than 600km" of fibre since 2020 and as having broadened its offering through three acquisitions (https://ferntrading.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2026/02/Fern-Annual-Report-and-Accounts-30-June-2025-FINAL-SIGNED.pdf). The report names those acquired businesses as Optimity, "Fortify" and Layer8 — while contemporaneous trade coverage names the security business 40fi. Whether that is an extraction error or a different entity is unresolved. Secondary reporting on the same document has attributed figures — a £420m loss, a £125m fibre impairment — that do not appear in the passages extracted here; they cannot be confirmed or refuted from this evidence and are not adopted.

Leadership and the network claim. Vorboss's own blog announces David Gilbey and Rhod Morgan as Co-CEOs, describing Gilbey as previously CFO with a background at Zayo Group and RBC Capital Markets, quoting Adam Dunlop as "Operating Partner at Octopus Capital and Chair of the Vorboss Board", and claiming the network "now spans over 900 km" (https://vorboss.com/blog/the-next-phase-of-growth-for-vorboss-meet-our-co-ceos). Three details qualify the page. Its displayed date conflicts with the October 2025 press timing of the co-CEO change. The register records Rhodri Charles Kenneth Morgan as a director only from 1 May 2026. And the 900km figure exceeds both the parent report's "more than 600km" and the 700km quoted in July 2025 coverage — three source-specific claims for the same physical network with no reconciling basis in any public document (https://ferntrading.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2026/02/Fern-Annual-Report-and-Accounts-30-June-2025-FINAL-SIGNED.pdf; https://vorboss.com/blog/the-next-phase-of-growth-for-vorboss-meet-our-co-ceos).

What this adds up to. The dated register tells a consistent story: an active company, an intact controlling shareholder, and a deliberately constructed board — an Octopus-affiliated chair, a December 2025 replacement and a May 2026 operations-led appointment — completing the transfer of authority from a founder. What the record does not yet contain is any measurement of the network or the business in the post-founder year: not the FY2025 accounts' contents, not any court filing, not any routing-level delta. Those three absences define the next observable milestones.