Gareth leads Thought Machine’s client services and partnerships functions, and is responsible for delivering high quality support to customers and partners.
A former engineer, Gareth holds over 20 years of experience in senior positions delivering software solutions to the world’s leading banks. Prior to joining Thought Machine, Gareth founded emerging technology consulting business MV37, served as Managing Director of GFT Group, and as Global Head of Delivery at Rule Financial.
Gareth is a Board Advisor to Adaptive Financial Consulting and invests in emerging technology companies such as Seven Feet Apart and ems.ai.
Martin is a commercially focused lawyer with over twenty years’ experience who is leading and expanding Thought Machine’s global legal team and corporate secretariat function. Martin is responsible for defining, implementing, and managing the group's global legal strategy, which involves navigating complex environments in multiple markets, facilitating governance and working with Though Machine’s customers in their highly regulated industries.
Prior to joining Thought Machine as General Counsel, Martin was a senior partner at the commercial technology legal practices of both Taylor Wessing and Latham & Watkins. Martin specialises in the financial services sector and has advised many of the world’s top-tier investment, commercial and retail banks in the UK, Europe and the USA.
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.
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.