Laz heads up Thought Machine’s EMEA sales engineering department and he and his team are responsible for all pre-sales activities in the region. Laz works with clients to understand their needs and validate the Vault platform, focusing on articulating the product's value and enabling financial institutions to transform their core systems.
Prior to Thought Machine, Laz worked with other core banking vendors, and before that worked in the banking sector for eight years.
Vinoth leads Fintech investing at Draper Esprit. At Draper Esprit, he has been building a deep thesis in the future of financial services which covers how we interact with money, all the way through to the infrastructure software behind the architecture of banks.
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.
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.
