Nick Wilde

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.

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.

Zoé is a Managing Director at Eurazeo Growth and is based in Berlin. Before joining Eurazeo Growth, Zoé invested globally in technology-driven companies at pre-IPO stage. Prior to that, Zoé was a Senior Investment Manager at Axel Springer, Europe's largest digital publishing house, where she led several growth investments in a joint venture with General Atlantic, focusing on marketplaces, as well as in adtech and traveltech, including Yad2 and @Leisure. Zoé started her career at Blackstone, first out of Paris and then based in New York City, advising on M&A, restructuring and IPOs with a focus on Energy and Consumer.

She is currently serving on the boards of Adjust and Sophia Genetics.

Zoé graduated with a MSc in International Management from ESCP Europe and a degree in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin.

Paul Taylor founded Thought Machine in 2014 because he wanted to use the same cloud technology he was exposed to while at Google to solve the banking industry’s legacy infrastructure problem. He believed something needed to be done about the way most banking systems were so cumbersome and awkward, not to mention deeply frustrating and practically useless for millions of end users.

Thought Machine’s core banking engine Vault was born in the spring of 2015 to liberate banks from archaic legacy systems. Will Montgomery wrote the code while Paul acted as product manager – setting and guiding the overall direction of the system – a role he still plays today.

Prior to Thought Machine, Paul founded two software companies, Rhetorical Systems and Phonetic Arts, and both were acquired by global software companies, Nuance and Google. After Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, Paul joined Google to lead a team of engineers responsible for launching the pioneering text-to-speech system in 2012. This system still provides the basis for all of Google’s speech output, including driving directions, voice search and accessibility to machine translation. The system has been installed on more than a billion phones since 2012.

Paul is the published author of Text-To-Speech Synthesis, lecturer in Linguistics at Cambridge University, and director of the Centre for Speech Research at Edinburgh University.