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Travers heads up Thought Machine’s sales and marketing teams, and is responsible for leading business development, customer acquisition, and brand building activities to drive global growth.
Travers has over 15 years’ board level experience scaling regional sales and marketing functions across software, banking, energy and retail industries. Before joining Thought Machine, Travers was Chief Marketing Officer at Fiserv and Managing Director at Barclays, where he led the market launch of peer-to-peer payment app PingIt. Prior to this, Travers was responsible for launching EDF Energy into the UK, as well as building their pioneering Nectar scheme.
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.
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.
