Nitesh joined Thought Machine in January 2020 as the global director of risk and compliance. Prior to Thought Machine, Nitesh had 15 years’ financial services experience working in consultancy, regulation and politics. He has worked at international marquee brands in the private and public sector, including as a management consultant at PA Consulting, Financial Services Risk and Regulation consultant at PwC, regulator at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and advisor at UK Parliament.
Nitesh's career in financial services regulation was predominantly focused on regulatory investigations and retail conduct and has experience with working with all of the big five UK retail banks, as well as several other retail banks, building societies and investment banks.
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.
John leads the project services team in North America at Thought Machine, and is responsible for ensuring high quality delivery of customer implementations of Vault. A transformation specialist, John has led many organisations and teams to grow, change and perform.
John joined Thought Machine from Virtual Clarity (A DXC Technology Company), where he led a specialist team of advisors in guiding clients across all sectors in cloud transformation, modern platform development and technology strategies.
He has worked with multiple financial services organisations, including LCH, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, PNC Bank and Barclays Bank. John started his career as an apprentice for what was British Rail Telecommunications, as an electrical/electronics engineer, before transitioning into IT networks, services and software, working for Lotus Software as a sales engineer and then into project management and technology change consulting.
Randy leads the partnerships and strategic alliances function for EMEA, and is responsible for executing the growth and go-to-market strategy.
Prior to Thought Machine, Randy was at Bottomline Technologies leading their global strategic partnerships team. He also has an extensive background, with senior positions at Visa, American Express, Rank Xerox and Intelligent Environments.
Randy holds a first class bachelor’s degree in business.
