Nitesh joined Thought Machine in January 2020 as the global director of risk and compliance. Prior to Thought Machine, Nitesh had 15 years’ financial services experience working in consultancy, regulation and politics. He has worked at international marquee brands in the private and public sector, including as a management consultant at PA Consulting, Financial Services Risk and Regulation consultant at PwC, regulator at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and advisor at UK Parliament.
Nitesh's career in financial services regulation was predominantly focused on regulatory investigations and retail conduct and has experience with working with all of the big five UK retail banks, as well as several other retail banks, building societies and investment banks.
Giovanni leads Thought Machine’s engineering team responsible for building and executing on the product strategy for our core banking product, Vault Core.
Prior to joining Thought Machine, Giovanni worked in finance as a research assistant and software engineer for one of London’s algorithmic trading firms, developing various parts of the research tools and trading platform.
Giovanni holds a degree in computer science from the University of Parma and a MSc in computing with distinction from Imperial College London.
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.
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.
