Andy Maguire is a recognised banking industry expert with a track record of developing and implementing sustainable transformation and growth strategies. Maguire holds a thirty-year track record as a successful COO, partner to CEOs and Executive Committees, who is equally comfortable in high performing businesses, growth or turnaround situations.
Prior to joining Thought Machine, Maguire was the Group Chief Operations Officer of HSBC (2014 - 2020) having previously been a Partner and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group for 17 years.
As Group Chief Operations Officer of HSBC, Maguire was responsible for the overall operation of the bank’s Wealth and Private Banking, Commercial Banking, and Global Banking and Markets divisions in the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Latin America, Middle East and Asia. He was responsible for the bank’s operational excellence, and led its technology transformation efforts including migration projects to the cloud.
Leading the bank’s efforts on cost management, digitisation and operational resilience, Maguire transitioned the bank away from yesterday's technology, paving the way for forward-thinking HSBC projects including Mobile X, HSBCnet, Payme and Kinetic. These initiatives, among others, have transformed the bank’s cybersecurity, IT service levels and operational process performance.
Prior to his roles at HSBC and BCG, Maguire was a Principal at Gemini Consulting and AT Kearney. Maguire holds a Double Honours degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin.
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.
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.
Andreas leads the sales engineering function for Thought Machine in Asia Pacific. Andreas and his team cover the entire pre-sales process of an opportunity from qualification to success.
Living in Asia for eight years, Andreas joined Thought Machine as one of the first employees to grow the business in Asia Pacific. Andreas has spent more than 15 years in consulting, IT management, solution and integration design, development & supporting (L1, L2) of complex systems, using high-graded multi-tier architecture across Europe, Asia and Australia.
