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Laz heads up Thought Machine’s EMEA sales engineering department and he and his team are responsible for all pre-sales activities in the region. Laz works with clients to understand their needs and validate the Vault platform, focusing on articulating the product's value and enabling financial institutions to transform their core systems.

Prior to Thought Machine, Laz worked with other core banking vendors, and before that worked in the banking sector for eight years.

Brad is the general manager of North America and global head of client success for Thought Machine. Prior to Thought Machine, Brad spent ten years at AWS as managing director of startup business development, a global business unit consisting of hundreds of employees across 22 countries. At this role, Brad was responsible for building and executing on a strategy to gain broad adoption of AWS by technology startups and scaleups worldwide. 

Prior to AWS, Brad spent 18 years in various senior leadership roles within the commercial, retail and treasury management units of multiple US banks, including Comerica Bank, Riggs/PNC, Citizens Bank/SunTrust, Norwest/Wells Fargo, and Square 1 Bank, a challenger bank where he was a founding member of the bank’s senior leadership team.

Brad is the general manager of North America and managing director of global partnerships for Thought Machine. Prior to Thought Machine, Brad spent ten years at AWS as managing director of startup business development, a global business unit consisting of hundreds of employees across 22 countries. At this role, Brad was responsible for building and executing on a strategy to gain broad adoption of AWS by technology startups and scaleups worldwide. 

Prior to AWS, Brad spent 18 years in various senior leadership roles within the commercial, retail and treasury management units of multiple US banks, including Comerica Bank, Riggs/PNC, Citizens Bank/SunTrust, Norwest/Wells Fargo, and Square 1 Bank, a challenger bank where he was a founding member of the bank’s senior leadership team.

Anthony leads the Asia Pacific project services team and is responsible for the delivery of Thought Machine's projects throughout Asia Pacific, ensuring our high-quality client delivery standards.

He is a delivery specialist who has successfully overseen the delivery of transformational business and technology projects and programmes within Australasia and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Thought Machine, Anthony was responsible for project delivery for a number of banking software providers, assisting their clients with the adoption of new technology and the establishment of best practice project delivery and governance methods.

Anthony started his career as an apprentice in the Royal Australian Navy, responsible for the maintenance of various electronics systems on board a submarine, before transitioning into test and trials management for a defence contractor. He eventually transitioned his knowledge and skills into the mainstream technology industry as a project manager and project delivery consultant.

Anand leads the project services function across the EMEA region for Thought Machine, and is responsible for navigating clients safely through their transformation journey and getting their Vault instance, and associated smart contracts, into production.

Anand brings the experience and results from two decades of infrastructure and software transformation experience within the financial services sector having worked with almost every major UK banking client in this time. 

Prior to joining Thought Machine, Anand was a senior transformation programme manager for Wipro and HCL.

Vinoth leads Fintech investing at Draper Esprit. At Draper Esprit, he has been building a deep thesis in the future of financial services which covers how we interact with money, all the way through to the infrastructure software behind the architecture of banks.

Brian leads partnerships in North America for Thought Machine, and is responsible for defining and driving the strategy for growing and enabling the partner ecosystem in the region.

A former management consultant, Brian has significant experience advising U.S. financial institutions on their digital transformation journey. Prior to joining Thought Machine, Brian helped lead the next generation digital banking practice at Deloitte Consulting where he oversaw sales, client delivery, and partnerships. Brian holds an MBA and an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering.

Kerry leads a global team of business analysts, client engineers and banking products specialists within our Client Services function, building and delivering accelerators for our clients to onboard onto Vault, offering a suite of financial products using Smart Contracts and preconfigured integrations with our Partners. 

Kerry has more than 20 years of financial services experience, covering a variety of areas and organisations, from large investment banks to smaller wealth managers. Kerry brings extensive experience from all aspects of change across business and technical areas, markets and technologies.

Harry Margiolakiotis leads Thought Machine's product engineering function and is responsible for the team developing and delivering our core banking product Vault. 

Harry has more than 12 years' experience in engineering, spanning various hands-on and management roles. Before joining Thought Machine in 2014, Harry was a VP and senior developer at Merrill Lynch where he worked on the bank's cross asset risk and pricing platform in global markets, a large distributed system executing hundreds of millions of valuations daily. There, he spent a few years designing and implementing various parts of the platform and eventually led a team of engineers to replace parts of it. 

Prior to Merrill Lynch, Harry gained experience working at Sony UK’s Broadcast and Professional Research Labs. Harry holds a master’s degree in advanced computer science with distinction from the University of Birmingham.

Piotr leads the Vault Payments department, comprising engineering, product management, programme management and quality engineering. He is responsible for the vision, strategy and development of Thought Machine’s payments solutions. 

Piotr spent five years as an individual contributor software engineer before devoting the last several years to engineering management roles, including leading various product engineering teams across Vault Core and Vault Payments at Thought Machine. Prior to joining Thought Machine, Piotr worked as a software engineer at J.P. Morgan, building trading platforms and quantitative research libraries.

Piotr holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from the University of Oxford.

Barry leads the Grow function at Thought Machine. Prior to Thought Machine, Barry led IBM’s banking and financial markets consulting business in North America, and also worked at FIS and Accenture earlier in his career. Barry has a wealth of industry expertise on consumer, wealth, small business and commercial banking, having worked at the C-Suite level of multiple banks. 

His key areas of expertise include strategy, core transformation, payments, digital transformation, salesforce, AI and marketing transformation. 

After graduating from university with a degree in Physics, I knew that I wanted my first job to be difficult, intellectually stimulating and fun. I first found out about Thought Machine when one of our in-house recruiters reached out to me via LinkedIn and invited me to a hiring event to meet the Engineers and CEO. Having been through a number of recruitment processes, I was impressed by the attitude to hiring at Thought Machine and came away from the event with the impression that this was an exciting company in an exciting industry, which really cared about its culture and employees.

I am one of five Back End Engineers working in the Kernel Users & Accounts team. The majority of code that we write and the features that we add are directly used by clients. I enjoy how closely we work together and being able to learn from Engineers who have much more experience than I do. I also like the fact that we can have fun while doing our job and have even started to build our own team traditions and long-running jokes.

The tech stack at Thought Machine is cutting edge. Coupled with the fact that we are going through a phase of rapid expansion, this makes the work environment very fast paced. In the five months that I have been here so far, the team has doubled in size and the tools I use on a daily basis for development are continuously evolving. There are many socials and events that go on outside of work, and you are given many opportunities to make your own mark on the company. In my time here so far, I have been able to start a sports club, given a talk at a tech conference and visited my alma mata, Imperial College, as part of the sponsors’ delegation for ICHack, the university's biggest annual hackathon.

Initially, the level of professionalism put into the website for such a small company (at the time) gave me the impression that Thought Machine held things to a high-standard. It was clear the company held their engineers in high regard; after attending the hiring event, and meeting a few of them, I was convinced.

My favourite aspect of Thought Machine is the fact that a group of people with diverse backgrounds and disciplines can band together, and collaborate under a common desire; to engineer our product to be the best in scalability and reliability.

Things move fast at Thought Machine, at the speed we are growing it can be hard to stay on top of everything. To manage this, the Cloud team is striving to add more documentation and automation to our processes. It can be tough to balance resolving toil with creating the tools to reduce it, but it's a worthwhile investment to ensure the company can scale.

Working with the cloud gives me a lot of exposure to the different development streams at Thought Machine. Because of this, I get the opportunity to work with other engineers on several parts of the product. In addition, having a mix of software and systems tasks means there's never a dull day at the office.

Outside of work I like to contribute to open-source projects, mostly around tools I use at work, or in my (very) amateur home lab, and automating as much of my life as humanly-possible. I'm also quite fond of video games -- Adventure/Logic are my favourite, as well as the occasional competitive game -- and also cinema/animation.

Piotr leads the Vault Payments department, comprising engineering, product management, programme management and quality engineering. He is responsible for the vision, strategy and development of Thought Machine’s payments solutions.

Piotr spent five years as an individual contributor software engineer before devoting the last several years to engineering management roles, including leading various product engineering teams across Vault Core and Vault Payments at Thought Machine. Prior to joining Thought Machine, Piotr worked as a software engineer at J.P. Morgan, building trading platforms and quantitative research libraries.

Piotr holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from the University of Oxford.

The attraction to Thought Machine for me was the chance to work at the cutting edge of cloud technology for a pure product company. The contribution to help shape our growth both in size and professional maturity was too exciting not to be involved in. The product is laser focused on solving a decades old business problem faced by the entire global banking cohort, and Thought Machine have a head start against their nearest competitors. This meant I was confident that, despite us being a StartUp FinTech and not yet product ready, Thought Machine would have longevity in the sector and be one of the few in the sector to beat the odds and become what the industry considers a ‘Unicorn’. Combine this with the cultural philosophy for engineering excellence without forgetting we still want to have fun and really bond with our colleagues and ride our success together, which means I feel I have a work ‘family’ for the first time in my 20+ year professional career.

My team is made up of top talent from two separate ends of the industry spectrum. We have amazing Business Analysts and fellow Delivery Managers with extensive banking sector experience, having worked for some of the biggest global banks. Industry stalwarts are joined by superb Technical Analysts and Developers from the top academic institutes both in the UK and globally. This balance is a testament to Thought Machine’s deliberate strategy of building the perfect balance of personnel whilst we grow to service our expanding customer base. It means I am working for the first time with a mix of talent from which I am learning continually from my peers, despite my already long established career.

My favourite part of the role here is that I get to work closer to the engineering excellence who build the product, more so than in any previous roles working for the big SI companies. This allows me to operate at the coal face and not abstracted away from the day to day grind of sprints, testing, releases etc. The Engineering talent at Thought Machine really sets us apart from the rest of the industry, including our architects, who have such deep, end-to-end knowledge of both our product platform and the wider core banking ecosystem but also regularly still contribute to the core product codebase on a sprint to sprint basis.

A little while back, I was looking for a fresh start in an industry I’ve never worked in before. Thought Machine had this really interesting hiring process where you get to meet people from the team before committing to the hiring process – and for me that was a great way to get to know a company’s culture beforehand. I got to ask many questions about how they work and what things they are working on, and from there I felt like I shared many values with Thought Machine’s working culture.  

I love how we cultivate a safe space to express our ideas and set each other up for success. My team also works with really challenging areas of software development, specifically on application infrastructure and reliability, which are key components for smoothly running a core banking system in the cloud.

It is great being able to work with multiple programming languages and working with both the application and infrastructure layers. There are many people with different specialisations to learn from. I especially find it exciting to work with new technology for cloud applications and learn how to work with them in production.  

Outside of work I strangely find Botanical Painting and Calligraphy to be very similar activities to coding in the sense that they both require focus to create nice things, so I am really into those outside of technology.