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Co-Managing Directors, China

Co-Managing Directors, India

Co-Managing Directors, Spain

Serban Tir

Martin ter Horst

Gautam Srusti

Jonne Heikkinen

Ramiro Castillo

Tammy Chiasson

As Regional Managing Director for ThoughtWorks APAC, Kristan works closely with clients to achieve their ambitious missions through innovative technologies. Kristan is passionate about creating empowered teams and cultivating an environment where diverse technologists can thrive.

Kristan joined ThoughtWorks in 2006, after a number of years working with early internet and AI-based startups.  Kristan has been fortunate enough to play a variety of roles within the ThoughtWorks business, giving me hands-on experience in both software delivery and business operations.

Kristan Vingrys

Zhang Song is the co-managing director of China and the Global Service Lines Lead at ThoughtWorks. 

Zhang has been with ThoughtWorks for more than seven years. Zhang is dedicated to building a team to develop China market and amplify ThoughtWorks' impact in China community, industry and sociality.

Zhang Song

Caroline Cintra has been in the business of helping clients succeed with software development and IT solutions throughout most of her career. With a background in Computer Science, Caroline has worked as a developer, a business analyst, a project manager and many other delivery related roles in between.

Caroline found at ThoughtWorks the opportunity of getting engaged with business strategy and executive decisions both internally as well as with clients, and a greater chance to change the game for those clients and their customers. Part of Caroline's journey is also strongly tied to people growth and development and to fostering teamwork and leadership, and she is constantly excited, amazed and captivated by working with that.

Caroline Cintra

Elise is a social entrepreneur, activist, sustainability advocate and currently the Global head of the social impact group for the Chicago-based global IT company, ThoughtWorks. Elise also leads the North American social impact practice which provides innovative tech strategy consulting and custom software development to non-profit and social enterprise clients.

Before joining ThoughtWorks, Elise founded and directed Rebuilding Exchange, a social enterprise affiliate organization of the Delta Institute.

Elise is a founding member of the Illinois Task Force on Social Innovation and a Chicago Community Trust Leadership Fellow. She received Chicago Magazine's 2012 Green Entrepreneur of the Year Award and is a TEDx speaker.

Elise Zelechowski

Taylor is the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Prior to MSK, she spent 23 years at Accenture — including more than ten years as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Her accomplishments include the company's growth into one of the world's leading brands.

She serves as a Director of [Whalar](/org/whalar), [Pure Storage](/org/pure-storage), [OpenX](/org/openx), and Fyllo. Taylor also serves on the Board of [Reporters Without Borders](/org/reporters-without-borders) and the US chapter of Reporters Sans Frontières.

Taylor has been named one of Forbes's "World's Most Influential CMOs," included in FierceCMO's "B2B CMOs to Watch," and selected for a Changing the Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (now called She Runs It). She is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, the Committee of 200, and the Women's Forum.

Roxanne Taylor

Becks Poulton

Rachel Laycock has over fifteen years of experience in the software development industry. Rachel began their career as a web developer and has since held positions of increasing responsibility, including software developer, global managing director, and enterprise modernization at [Thoughtworks](/org/thoughtworks-inc).

Laycock has a proven track record of success in building and leading high-performing teams. Rachel is an expert in web development and has extensive experience in cloud computing and platforms. Under their leadership, [Thoughtworks](/org/thoughtworks-inc) has modernized its enterprise software and moved to a cloud-based platform. This has resulted in increased efficiency and productivity for the company.

Laycock is a thought leader in the software development industry and is frequently invited to speak at conferences and events. Rachel is passionate about helping others reach their potential and is committed to making [Thoughtworks](/org/thoughtworks-inc) a top employer in the industry.

Rachel Laycock has a Bachelor's Degree in Media Technology from [Teesside University](/org/teesside-university), as well as an MSc in Information Technology from the same school. Rachel has also completed executive education programs in Personal Leadership and Success, as well as Implementing Winning Strategies, both from Columbia Business School.

Some of their coworkers include Karin Verloop - Co-Managing Director, Spain, Dave Whalley - Chief Information Officer, and Wong Wen Shun - Managing Director, Southeast Asia. Their manager is Guo Xiao, President and CEO.

Rachel Laycock

Mayur Wadhwa is the current Managing Director for [Thoughtworks](/org/thoughtworks-inc) in Germany. Mayur has over fifteen years of experience in the IT industry, with a focus on software development and project management. Prior to their current position, Mr. Wadhwa served as a Project Lead at SunGard Public Sector from July 2004 to February 2008. Mayur was also a Developer at SunGard from July 2001 to June 2004. Mr. Wadhwa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai.

Mayur Wadhwa has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication from the University of Madras.

They are on a team with Alexey Boas - Managing Director, Chile, Sudhir Tiwari - Co-Managing Director, India, and Patrick B. Sarnacke - Managing Director, UK. Mayur Wadhwa reports to Guo Xiao, President and CEO.

Mayur Wadhwa

Chad ensures ThoughtWorks has the capability to execute its strategy, deliver value to clients, and scale its service offerings. He is responsible for organizational, foundational, and business capability.

Chad joined ThoughtWorks in 2004, after a stint in strategic consulting at the Boston Consulting Group. Two years later, he co-founded the ThoughtWorks Products division, where he served as VP of Product and eventually Managing Director. A product manager by trade, Chad has frequently spoken on the future of product management and innovation. Chad helped drive ThoughtWorks’ early adoption of Ruby on Rails. He also sponsored its early push into Continuous Delivery and DevOps.

Chad Wathington

Joanna joined ThoughtWorks in 2003 as a software engineer, because she believed in the company’s pursuit of software excellence. In 2018, Joanna was appointed as ThoughtWorks’ first-ever chief talent officer where she aims to create a holistic, global approach to diverse talent sourcing, acquisition, and development while scaling 43 offices in 14 countries. Joanna oversees ThoughtWorks University and First-Year Experience. 

Joanna Parke

I'm an experienced executive with a commitment to creating a culture of excellence, where empowered teams succeed. I have more than 20 years’ experience in solving complex business challenges through the innovative use of technology and a track record of putting customer value at the heart of what we do. And I believe in building an environment that encourages teams to experiment, to learn from their experiences and to be creative.

My background is software development and I’m a passionate advocate for ThoughtWorks’ core mission of software excellence and using the power of technology to improve society. 

I joined ThoughtWorks in 1999 as a Programmer. I spent many years programming in various languages and helping customers develop software products. I’ve also spent time in ThoughtWorks China and helped to establish and grow the China business unit, providing services for both local and global customers. 

I've been CEO since 2013, during which time the company has grown rapidly. My primary focus is to embrace our mission of delivering technology to address our clients' toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.

Guo Xiao

Erin joined ThoughtWorks in 2004 when the company was 800 people and incorporated in 4 countries.  In Erin's role as Global Controller, she was based in Chicago and had the chance to work with ThoughtWorks' finance teams around the world.  In 2011, she moved to London and worked closely with the European business as Head of Finance and Operations for UK and Germany.  Erin took on the CFO role in January 2014 and has been enjoying every minute of it.  

Erin Cummins

A software engineer who acted as developer, researcher, innovation analyst and project manager on technology projects for various industry verticals and in some countries since mid 90's. Specialist in not being a specialist. After several positions inside [Thoughtworks](/org/thoughtworks-inc), Matheus is currently the Manager Director for Ecuador. 

Matheus Tait

Rebecca Parsons is the chief technology officer at ThoughtWorks.

Rebecca's technical experience includes leading the creation of large-scale distributed applications and the integration of disparate systems. Separate from her passion for deep technology, Rebecca is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. Committed to increasing the number of women in coding and STEM fields, Rebecca has served on the board of CodeChix and acted as an advisor to [Women Who Code](/org/women-who-code), as well as recently joining the Board of Trustees for AnitaB.org. 

Rebecca Parsons was chairwoman on the [Agile Alliance](/org/agile-alliance) Board of Directors for four years and served the organization over a total of six years.

Rebecca Parsons

Sai Mandapaty is the Chief Commercial Officer at ThoughtWorks.

As chief commercial officer, Sai maintains global responsibility for championing the long term commercial success of ThoughtWorks. Sai drives organizational focus towards awesome customer partnerships and meaningful client impact. Sai's main focus is on executing strategies for delivering greater client value, ensuring effective client segmentation and management, identifying and supporting growth engines, and implementing strategies for long term growth - while still delivering quarterly and annual plan revenue commitments.

Sai Mandapaty

Kirsten Völkl

Brandi Hollis

Aaron Lintz

Martin Harrison

Joe Murray

Hima Bindu

Ms. Chwick was a partner at Goldman Sachs where she had a 30-year career in technology, most recently as Co-Chief Operating Officer of the technology pision. In this role, she was responsible for financial and business planning, setting the technical strategy and management of an 8,000-person organization within the firm. Ms. Chwick was also the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Trewtec, Inc., providing Corporate Directors, CEOs and Chief Technology Officers with vital information they need to improve their oversight of a company's technology function. Ms. Chwick currently serves as a director of Voya Financial, a financial, retirement, investment and insurance company; People’s United Bank, the largest regional bank Headquartered in New England; and MarketAxess, the leading fixed income electronic trading platform for institutional investors and dealers.



Jane Chwick

Mr. Parrett is a former Senior Partner of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, a public accounting firm. Mr. Parrett retired in 2007. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT). Prior to serving as Chief Executive Officer of DTT, he was Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche USA since 1999. Mr. Parrett joined Deloitte in 1967 and served in a series of roles of increasing responsibility. Mr. Parrett currently serves as a director of The Blackstone Group L.P., an investment and advisory firm; Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a provider of analytical and laboratory instruments and products; Conduent Corporation, a business process services company. Additionally, Mr. Parrett is Past Chairman of United Way of America and of the United States Council for International Business.



William G. Parrett

A Fulbright and O'Reilly Scholar, Dr. Sands began her banking career in 2004, handling derivatives analysis at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canada's fifth largest general bank. She then joined the even larger Royal Bank of Canada and was the youngest-ever Senior Vice President at the Royal Bank of Canada as the Head of Innovation & Process Design. After moving to New York City to work as Head of Transformation for Global Technology and Operations at Citigroup, she joined UBS Wealth Management, where at the age of 33, she was appointed Chief Operating Officer responsible for technology, operations and corporate services. Currently, Dr. Sands is on the board of directors of three public companies including Symantec Corporation, a member of the F500, and the world’s leader in Cyber-Security; Service Now, an enterprise SaaS service management company; and Pure Storage, a leading innovator in the enterprise storage space. She is also an active investor and serves on the advisory board of Grand Central Tech—a leading New York-based technology incubator - as well as the Dean’s Advisory Board at Heinz College, CMU. She is a member of the Advisory Board at DocuSign and Accompany, as well as a member of the Digital Advisory Board at Box.



Anita Sands

Wong Wen Shun is the managing director of Southeast Asia at ThoughtWorks. 

Wong joined ThoughtWorks in 2015 and has had the opportunity to play multiple roles, most recently as the Head of Finance and pairing as the Head of Professional Services for Southeast Asia. 

Wong is the the Co-Managing Director for Southeast Asia, responsible for expanding influence in this region and being a great partner for ThoughtWorks' clients. 

Wong Wen Shun

Vikram Deo

Davis is currently the non-executive Chair of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, a non-executive Director of Johnson & Johnson Inc. and Majid Al Futtaim Holding LLC, and a Senior Advisor at [Apax Partners](/org/apax-partners).

He retired from [McKinsey & Company](/org/mckinsey-company) in 2010 as a Senior Partner, having served as Chair and Worldwide Managing Director from 2003 until 2009. In his more than 30 years at McKinsey, he served as a consultant to a range of global organizations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Prior to becoming Chair and Worldwide Managing Director, he was Managing Partner of McKinsey's practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland. His experience included oversight for McKinsey clients and services in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Ian Davis

Alexey Boas

Peter Buhrmann is the Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Europe. Peter has been in the software industry for over 25 years and wrote his first code at the age of 15 when he programmed an HP 15C. Since then, Peter has been interested in technology and has worked in both custom software development and IT consulting. With growing his professional experience, his responsibilities gravitated towards management: in sales, as a delivery manager and then as a business unit leader. 

As a Managing Director, Peter is focused on supporting the clients' ambitions missions and on creating an environment that makes ThoughtWorks a destination employer for the best talent in the market.

Peter Buhrmann

Sudhir Tiwari is the Co-Managing Director of India at ThoughtWorks. 

Designing innovative or disruptive products, charting transformation roadmaps and growing winning partnerships with ambitious customers is a short sum up of Sudhir’s passions as a technology leader.

As the Managing Director of ThoughtWorks India, he is responsible for the company’s operations in the region, business strategy, software delivery excellence, new capability development, customer relationships, balancing sustainable growth and building high-performance teams.

Sudhir, a ThoughtWorker for over twelve years has in depth experience in a variety of development methodologies and has played roles of a Technical Lead, Agile Coach among others. He has a proven track record in leading global transformational initiatives. In his previous role at the company, Sudhir was the a co-founder and VP of Global Operations at Studios, the company’s product arm. His team helped take the unit from 0 products and 0 customers to 3 products and 400+ customers, across 30 countries over 3 years.

Sudhir Tiwari

Sameer Soman is the co-managing director of India at ThoughtWorks.

In a nutshell, Sameer’s passions lie in building a diversified, vibrant talent force, inspiring ThoughtWorks’ next generation of leadership and constantly creating avenues to upgrade the organization’s capability.

Sameer has over 2 decades of experience and his time at ThoughtWorks has seen him play key roles in crafting the company’s innovative approach that delivers custom software solutions to global enterprises. In his current role as Managing Director for ThoughtWorks India, he collaborates with ThoughtWorks’ different business groups to develop advanced models of business transformation for clients.

Sameer’s strong experience in both, engineering and management, ensures his proficient managerial skills coming into strong play whether it’s Technology Management, Talent Management, Program/Project Management, Product Delivery or Operations Management.

Sameer Soman

Hu Kai is the Co-Managing Director of ThoughtWorks China and co-author of ‘Software Development Practices’. Hu Kai consults with leading global organisations on continuous improvement using agile practices and principles. He is an experienced account manager, helping offshore clients set up large delivery centres and businesses in China from the ground up.

Hu Kai

Patrick currently serves as Managing Director of ThoughtWorks UK, where he work closely with the delivery and operations teams to ensure clients execute on their most ambitious missions and navigate their treacherous digital transformations. Patrick has been with ThoughtWorks since 1997, and has played many different roles in that time, from Network Engineer to Trainer, to Head of Entry-level Employees.

Patrick B. Sarnacke

As a lawyer, Marta had the chance to support the incorporation and operations of several businesses from the outside. That is how Marta met ThoughtWorks, back in 2009, and three years later, made the huge decision to leave the firm and join this organization with its never-ending ambitious missions.

After a few years dedicated to building a collaborative and effective legal function that is deeply integrated with the business, and being part of our Brazilian leadership team, Marta has taken on the challenge to lead the recruiting function and expand her impact through a different and fascinating space.

Marta Saft

Julie is the chief marketing officer for ThoughtWorks. As a digital leader with deep insights in cloud, mobile, IoT, augmented reality, machine learning, and marketing technologies, Julie has worked with startups to Fortune 500 companies for more than 30 years.

Julie joined [Tata Communications](/org/tata-communications) in 2012, where she was the first chief marketing and innovation officer. Julie played a key role in the successful transformation of [Tata Communications](/org/tata-communications), building a global enterprise brand from scratch on a limited budget, and creating partnership ecosystems with a variety of technology and cloud companies. Whilst at [Tata Communications](/org/tata-communications), Julie was also CEO of the Nextgen Business, where she built a $300M dollar business.

Julie Woods-Moss

Chris is the chief executive officer of ThoughtWorks' North American business, where he works closely with our clients to help them obtain a sustained competitive position through the innovative application of technology.  Chris is responsible for operational results and has the privilege of working with ThoughtWorks' passionate technologists to accelerate the strategic and impactful evolution and expansion of the ambitious business and societal mission.  

Chris Murphy

Ramona Mateiu

Dave Whalley joined ThoughtWorks in 2003 as a Project Manager in the London office. Since then Dave has had the opportunity to be in charge of client delivery in UK, client delivery globally and then Chief Operating Officer. For the last few years Dave has been the Chief Information Officer looking after all of our internal IT. 

Dave Whalley

Martin, renowned author, software consultant and speaker, brings two decades of experience helping corporations utilise object technology for mission-critical information systems. He was one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, and has written seven books on software development and collected awards for them. He's also a highly regarded speaker at international conferences, although these days he prefers to stay off the stage.

Martin Fowler

Together with Gabriel Notari, Karin is responsible for running ThoughtWorks in Spain. 

Julie's career started with IBM in the Netherlands and in 2008 she joined ThoughtWorks in Melbourne, Australia. Julie has the privilege to work with clients in the Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Latin America and Spain. 

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