Rob Thatcher has worked on technology deployment, management and support projects in the financial services industry for over 15 years, with technologies including Solaris, Linux, Microsoft, Cisco and Juniper networking.

Prior to that he spent time working in a range of IT roles from task scheduling to teaching and mentoring IT skills in the workplace.

He has built and led successful matrix teams, combining IT staff across multiple disciplines, for managing electronic trading platforms, technical infrastructure, remote offices, VPN services, virtual machines, and storage platforms. He has co-built four trading floors in the City of London along with associated data-centre and Direct Market Access components.