Andy is an experienced entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Active Hotels which he sold to Priceline.com and became CEO of their non-US business. He then co-led the acquisition of Bookings BV and subsequent merger with Active Hotels to form what is now Booking.com (market cap over $50bn). He was Chairman of Toptable (now part of Priceline) and co-founder of Reevoo. He is an active business angel, regularly teaches at LBS and INSEAD and is a board director or adviser to a number of tech ventures.
Will leads Thought Machine’s engineering teams in developing world leading cloud native technology, and is responsible for building a company culture of engineering excellence.
Prior to joining Thought Machine in 2014, Will was a senior software engineer at Google where he worked on their advertising systems accounting for 80% of company revenues. Will became an expert in cloud technology while working on Ad Exchange, a large-scale real-time auction platform, before becoming Technical Lead of mobile ads on the AdSense network.
Will received an MPhil in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and a first class degree in Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
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.
Anthony leads the Asia Pacific project services team and is responsible for the delivery of Thought Machine's projects throughout Asia Pacific, ensuring our high-quality client delivery standards.
He is a delivery specialist who has successfully overseen the delivery of transformational business and technology projects and programmes within Australasia and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Thought Machine, Anthony was responsible for project delivery for a number of banking software providers, assisting their clients with the adoption of new technology and the establishment of best practice project delivery and governance methods.
Anthony started his career as an apprentice in the Royal Australian Navy, responsible for the maintenance of various electronics systems on board a submarine, before transitioning into test and trials management for a defence contractor. He eventually transitioned his knowledge and skills into the mainstream technology industry as a project manager and project delivery consultant.
