The Thinkingcap Team

		Rod Dowler Rod Dowler, the Chief Executive, has wide experience of technology companies and management consultancy. He worked initially as a software developer and then spent a number of years in management consultancy. While a partner at KPMG, he led the KPMG European High Technology Practice. Rod is also a director of Technology Consulting, a business-focussed City management consultancy that he founded after leaving KPMG. He specialises in negotiating IT contracts and outsourcing deals. Rod joined Thinkingcap Technology as CEO in to help obtain VC funding and position the company for growth. Rod holds an MA in Physics from Oxford University. Why did Rod join Thinkingcap? Because, he says, ' It is simply the most promising approach to business solutions that I have seen'.
		Bimal Shah Bimal Shah, a founder and co-patent holder of the Thinkingcap intellectual property, heads research and design. Before joining Thinkingcap Technology, he was Global Head of the Financial Data Group for D. E. Shaw & Co., an American investment bank specializing in statistical arbitrage and computational trading. In that role, he managed a world-wide group, including a large software development team in India. Before that, he was a manager in the Technology and Integration Services Division at Accenture, where he worked as the technical architect on such high profile projects as the regulatory system of the London Stock Exchange. He is experienced in delivering software solutions to high specifications and under tight commercial pressures. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in Physics & Computer Science from the University of London.
		David Romano-Critchley David Romano-Critchley, the Chief Technical Officer, is a founder and co-patent holder of the core Thinkingcap intellectual property. After working as a research fellow in computer science at the University of London, he joined D. E. Shaw Securities as a senior developer in the Financial Operations Group. There he was involved in developing and implementing the latest back-office technologies. He has worked on many other commercial projects including a large telecoms project for the European Union. He attended the University of London and holds BSc and PhD degrees in Physics & Computer Science.
		Chris Cussons Chris Cussons, Chief Financial Officer. Chris is an FCA who has successfully raised money for a number of start-up companies and has acted as Financial Director for some of these. Currently he is working with a young e-commerce and smartcard solutions consultancy and, as the Financial Director and a shareholder in that business, negotiated a funding and trade investment package valuing the new business at £12m. For Thinkingcap Technology he managed an EIS round of investment and second stage financing.
		Tristram Graham Tristram Graham heads client technical support. He is a software consultant with experience as a developer, architect, analyst and trouble-shooter. Tristram has a background in engineering and design with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London plus over 10 years' experience across a wide range of technologies and platforms. He has worked primarily on high-end enterprise software systems from bank trading systems to application server software at the architectural level. Tristram joined Thinkingcap 'because it seemed more ambitious than many of the dotcom companies'. He has worked on the core product on the GUI aspects and on major client projects.
		Jason McFall Jason McFall heads client project services. He is a software consultant who specialises in client solutions. He has extensive experience as a software developer and architect. His background is in particle physics having worked for seven years within large international research organisations. Jason has a first class degree in Physics from Imperial College, London and a Doctorate from Oxford University. Before joining Thinkingcap, Jason worked for a media distribution company on streaming media applications. He met the Thinkingcap team while working for a client and joined Thinkingcap because he 'relishes finding elegant techniques for solving problems'. He has worked on the core Thinkingcap product and on some major client projects including an innovative web-crawler application that selects keywords from websites. This type of technology is the basis of 'paid search' a fast-growing segment of the search engine market.