Max co-founded IQ Capital in 2007 and looks after investments in fintech, insurtech, comms and medtech space as well as leading fundraising activities.
Max has been in venture capital since 2001 and has led investments into over three dozen start-ups, with exits including Grapeshot (Oracle), Phonetic Arts (Google), Neul (Huawei), Spectral Edge (Apple), Stillfront (IPO), Sirigen (BD) and Quotient (EKF). He currently represents IQ Capital on the boards of several scale-ups – including Audio Analytic, Concirrus, Fluidic Analytics and Thought Machine, collectively valued at well over $1bn and growing rapidly. Max also works with a number of seed stage companies as board advisor.
Prior to venture, Max spent a few years in telecoms, where he caught the start-up bug while being part of operating teams building mobile operators from start to scale up.
Max has been a member of Invest Europe (formerly EVCA) Venture Capital Council since 2015 and was elected to the Board in 2019. Max holds a BSc in Economics (Maryland) and an MBA (Cambridge).
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.
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.
Brian leads partnerships in North America for Thought Machine, and is responsible for defining and driving the strategy for growing and enabling the partner ecosystem in the region.
A former management consultant, Brian has significant experience advising U.S. financial institutions on their digital transformation journey. Prior to joining Thought Machine, Brian helped lead the next generation digital banking practice at Deloitte Consulting where he oversaw sales, client delivery, and partnerships. Brian holds an MBA and an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering.
