Henry van Statten Henry van Statten was the CEO of the American corporation GeoComTex and a collector and exploiter of alien technology . He was the billionaire owner of the Internet in 2012 . As head of GeoComTex , Henry van Statten had enough influence to sway the course of the next presidential elections . Van Statten had been collecting extraterrestrial artefacts on the grey market for years , buying bits and pieces of alien technology at auction s and then reverse engineering them to create " new " technologies which he would then exploit commercially . He claimed to " own " the Internet , and said that broadband was derived from technology scavenged from the Roswell crash . He kept these artefacts in a private collection , inside a bunker called the Vault more than fifty floors below ground in Utah near Salt Lake City . ( TV : " Dalek " ) In 2007 , van Statten ' s image appeared while the Tenth Doctor was researching H . C . Clements , along with the Guinevere website , UNIT website , and GeoComTex website . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) Sometime before 2012 , van Statten acquired a living but unresponsive Dalek , who had survived the Last Great Time War . He called it a " metaltron " . Van Statten tried to make the Dalek talk through torture but all it did was ' scream ' . In 2012 , the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler arrived in the Vault in response to a distress signal , unaware that the signal came from a Dalek . They were quickly captured by van Statten ' s guards . At this time , Diana Goddard , van Statten ' s personal assistant , and Adam Mitchell , a scientist , worked for him . Learning the Doctor was alien , van Statten examined his Gallifreyan physiology . He had plans to make use of his binary vascular system in a marketing venture , branding it as his own creation through a patent . When the Dalek freed itself , he gave the Doctor free rein to deal with it . By the time events came to a conclusion , two hundred GeoComTex personnel had died and the Dalek had self - destructed . Goddard took charge at this point and van Statten got a taste of his own medicine : she ordered van Statten to be taken away , mind - wiped and dumped on the streets , " somewhere beginning with an ' S ' , " due to him causing the death of so many personnel . ( TV : " Dalek " ) Personality . Intelligent , arrogant and selfish , van Statten treated his employees as though they were expendable human livestock , to the point of mind - wiping them when they left his employ so they could not betray his secrets . He also displayed no concern for their safety and even when there was a deadly Dalek on the loose , he ordered them not to cause any damage to it and was willing to let them die just to keep the Dalek in one piece . Eventually he decided to help the Doctor stop the Dalek but only did so to protect himself , telling the Doctor that the only reason he was helping was because he didn ' t want to get killed . Van Statten had a wry , dark sense of humour and treated other humans , and aliens especially , as things he could use to amuse himself or turn to his advantage . The Doctor mentioned Davros , the Dalek creator , to him and secretly compared them , calling Davros " a genius , a man who was king of his own little world " and telling van Statten , " You ' d like him " . However van Statten was not entirely heartless and apologised to the Doctor when they thought that Rose Tyler had been killed . ( TV : " Dalek " )