Richard Little is an angel investor and entrepreneurial non-executive director in software and services businesses. Richard is a board member of Thought Machine, previously holding the role of Chair. Richard holds Chairman positions in CenturyTech and ChargePoint. He is also an investor in a number of start-ups including Form3 and Azur. Richard has achieved significant exits in his career including Dovetail Group to Fiserv in 2017 and GreenHat to IBM in 2011.
Richard’s career began in 1979 with Burrough Machines Ltd, selling accounting systems to small businesses in West London. In 1982 he set up his own business Braid, leading the company to exit with a sale to Mercator for $125m.
Arnaud leads finance, risk and compliance for Thought Machine. He previously held financial leadership roles at Finastra where he led their program office focused on strategic and corporate finance projects related to maximising shareholder value and return, adjusting the capital structure, and developing best practices. He was also responsible for the treasury, investor relations and strategic finance planning functions. Under his leadership, the medium-term plan was revamped and the communication to external investors was improved.
Prior to Finastra, he was a senior investment banker. Over the course of his 20-year banking career, Arnaud led strategic advisory and financing transactions including over $150 billion in M&A, $25 billion raised in equity offerings and billions in high yield and investment grade issuance. Arnaud was a managing director at TAP Advisors, the investment banking boutique, where he co-led coverage in the EMEA region, based out of London.
Prior to that, he worked at Bank of America and Merrill Lynch for 15 years, where he covered TMT clients across the EMEA region.
He holds a master’s degree in financial engineering and corporate finance from Paris Dauphine University.
Matt is responsible for building the underlying operational infrastructure to support the company's global growth ambitions. Matt ensures that the company is operating with agility and resilience on a day-to-day basis, while also building strategic innovation projects for international expansion.
Prior to joining Thought Machine, Matt spent seven years leading the global M&A Engineering Integrations team at Google. Among the 120 acquisitions he led during his time in this role was Paul Taylor’s business Phonetic Arts in 2010. As a computer scientist and a former engineer, Matt decided to join Thought Machine as he is passionate about how technology can be used to positively disrupt outdated industries such as banking.
