Peter Hayes is a career Banker who retired from Lloyds Banking Group in 2018 having joined in 2010 from RBS. During the last 27 years in banking he was focused entirely on the major change programmes undertaken in both banks. As Director Group Change Management at Lloyds, he was responsible for the Group’s full change portfolio.
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.
Matt is responsible for building the underlying operational infrastructure to support the company's global growth ambitions. Matt ensures that the company is operating with agility and resilience on a day-to-day basis, while also building strategic innovation projects for international expansion.
Prior to joining Thought Machine, Matt spent seven years leading the global M&A Engineering Integrations team at Google. Among the 120 acquisitions he led during his time in this role was Paul Taylor’s business Phonetic Arts in 2010. As a computer scientist and a former engineer, Matt decided to join Thought Machine as he is passionate about how technology can be used to positively disrupt outdated industries such as banking.
