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.
Nicki heads up Thought Machine’s marketing function in Asia Pacific. Nicki joined Thought Machine with 15 years of experience in regional marketing leadership roles across the technology industry in Asia Pacific, including stints at SunGard/FIS and LinkedIn, as well as building the regional marketing functions in APAC for Anaplan and SolidFire. Prior to marketing, Nicki held various roles at Reuters in London, Tokyo and Singapore covering customer relations, account management and product management.
Nicki graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Japanese and economics from the University of London and holds a postgraduate diploma in digital marketing from the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing and a diploma in financial management from ACCA.
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.
Barry leads Americas Sales for 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.
