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.
Andreas leads the sales engineering function for Thought Machine in Asia Pacific. Andreas and his team cover the entire pre-sales process of an opportunity from qualification to success.
Living in Asia for eight years, Andreas joined Thought Machine as one of the first employees to grow the business in Asia Pacific. Andreas has spent more than 15 years in consulting, IT management, solution and integration design, development & supporting (L1, L2) of complex systems, using high-graded multi-tier architecture across Europe, Asia and Australia.
Robin heads up Thought Machine’s marketing function in North America. Robin joined Thought Machine with 18 years of experience in various global and regional marketing leadership roles at EY and Deloitte. Prior to the Big Four, Robin was a product manager at Dun & Bradstreet’s ecommerce division and led the go-to-market effort in launching its first digital solution. Robin started her career as a software engineer and then a product development manager with extensive hands-on experience with various programming languages and relational database design.
Robin holds a master’s degree in information networking from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin.
Paul Taylor founded Thought Machine in 2014 because he wanted to use the same cloud technology he was exposed to while at Google to solve the banking industry’s legacy infrastructure problem. He believed something needed to be done about the way most banking systems were so cumbersome and awkward, not to mention deeply frustrating and practically useless for millions of end users.
Thought Machine’s core banking engine Vault was born in the spring of 2015 to liberate banks from archaic legacy systems. Will Montgomery wrote the code while Paul acted as product manager – setting and guiding the overall direction of the system – a role he still plays today.
Prior to Thought Machine, Paul founded two software companies, Rhetorical Systems and Phonetic Arts, and both were acquired by global software companies, Nuance and Google. After Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, Paul joined Google to lead a team of engineers responsible for launching the pioneering text-to-speech system in 2012. This system still provides the basis for all of Google’s speech output, including driving directions, voice search and accessibility to machine translation. The system has been installed on more than a billion phones since 2012.
Paul is the published author of Text-To-Speech Synthesis, lecturer in Linguistics at Cambridge University, and director of the Centre for Speech Research at Edinburgh University.
