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Business Wire
27-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Thoughtworks Appoints Rav Hayer as Managing Director for UK & Ireland and Head of European Financial Services Practice
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, announced the appointment of Rav Hayer to the dual role of Managing Director for UK & Ireland and Head of Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) for Europe. In this position, Rav is responsible for driving Thoughtworks' next phase of strategic growth in the UK and Ireland market while simultaneously expanding the firm's influence within the financial services sector across Europe. "Rav brings the precise blend of strategic leadership and deep financial services expertise required to accelerate our growth," said Kaushik Sarkar, Regional Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and India, Thoughtworks. "His proven track record in transforming organizations through technology and cultivating high-performing teams makes him the ideal leader for our UK and Ireland business and instrumental in elevating our European financial services practice." As the UK & Ireland Managing Director, Rav will focus on leading Thoughtworks' regional strategy, operations and market expansion. A key aspect will be enhancing client relationships by delivering high-impact technology solutions that empower our clients to navigate and capitalize on the incredible pace of change in technology. Additionally, he will cultivate the company's reputation as a leading employer for highly skilled technology professionals. In his role as Head of Europe BFSI, Rav will guide financial institutions through complex digital transformations, made even more critical by the adoption of AI, cloud and data, to lead through this era of unprecedented technological dynamism. "This is a pivotal time for both Thoughtworks and the financial services sector," said Rav Hayer, Managing Director of UK & Ireland and European Head of BFSI, Thoughtworks. "The UK and Ireland market holds immense potential for technology-driven transformation, while financial institutions across Europe are actively reshaping their digital futures. I am thrilled to lead our exceptional teams in delivering innovative and impactful solutions for our clients." Rav joins Thoughtworks from Alvarez & Marsal, where he most recently served as Managing Director. In this role, he led complex digital transformation programs for financial services clients across Europe. He is a qualified accountant with an MBA and over 25 years of experience in financial services technology, business strategy and large-scale transformations. He is also recognized as a dedicated people leader and passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion. - ### - About Thoughtworks Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation. We are over 10,000 people strong across 48 offices in 19 countries. For 30+ years, we've delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator.
Business Wire
29-04-2025
- Automotive
- Business Wire
carsales Drives Operational Transformation and AI-Powered Customer Service in Australia with Thoughtworks
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, has collaborated with carsales, Australia's #1 digital auto marketplace, to support a successful operational transformation. Leveraging Thoughtworks' advanced engineering practices, carsales streamlined its internal development processes and accelerated the launch of its new AI-powered features and capabilities to enhance the automotive customer experience and maintain its competitive edge. Founded in 1997, carsales revolutionized the automotive industry by digitizing print classifieds. Recognizing the need to adapt and innovate in a rapidly evolving technological landscape, carsales embarked on a journey to optimize its engineering organization. "To sustain our competitive advantage and continue delivering exceptional customer experiences, addressing some challenges within our engineering processes was important," said Matt Earle, EGM of Consumer at carsales. "Thoughtworks' Engineering Excellence offering provided the structured approach and AI-powered software engineering capabilities that helped us to unlock our full potential." In collaboration with Thoughtworks, carsales implemented key initiatives: Optimizing high-performing teams: By adopting a customer experience strategy for new products and feature releases, the roles and responsibilities of the team focused on private buyers' purchasing experiences were redefined. More specifically, leveraging story mapping for the planned feature releases alongside identifying streamlined deployment processes and cost reduction priorities, resulted in improved decision-making, execution speed and delivery efficiency. Reducing the time to value: Through an iterative approach with Test-Driven Development, Thoughtworks helped increase delivery predictability of new capabilities faster. As a disruptive, digital native company, this enables carsales' developers to roll out new features to customers ahead of the competition. By enhancing the test pyramid with system and contract tests, and automating quality checks, carsales achieved higher code quality, improved developer confidence and faster delivery speeds. The impact of these improvements were evident in the successful launch of carsales' Model Finder - an AI-powered vehicle recommendation tool that tailors car suggestions based on buyers' lifestyle needs and preferences, whether for family driving, commuting, trade work, or other purposes. This project showcased the benefits of the new engineering practices, including more efficient resource utilization, risk reduction, faster time-to-market and higher ROI. 'carsales' commitment to keeping up with the latest innovations in engineering excellence and AI is driven by its mission to make buying and selling a great experience for customers,' said Karin Verloop, Managing Director for Tech and Business Services, Thoughtworks Asia Pacific. 'The successful launch of the AI-powered Model Finder is a testament to their commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences. We're proud to have played a role in their operational transformation and look forward to their continued advancement in the digital auto marketplace sector.' Thoughtworks' Engineering Excellence is a field-tested and data-driven methodology that combines platform technologies, engineering practices and developer experience approaches under an overarching measurement and governance model. By addressing key focus areas such as platform engineering, developer productivity, testing strategies and knowledge management, the service offering enables organizations to identify and eliminate waste, reduce friction and accelerate value delivery. Supporting resources: About carsales carsales, Australia's #1 digital auto marketplace has been transforming the way Australians buy and sell vehicles for over a quarter of a century. Driven by a simple yet powerful mission: to make buying and selling a great experience, carsales prioritises innovation and effective solutions to connect users seamlessly. carsales is part of CAR Group Limited – an ASX50 business and global leader in digital marketplaces. The carsales network of sites extends beyond cars, encompassing bikes, boats, caravans, trucks, farm and construction equipment, and more. carsales has Australians covered, no matter how they move through life. About Thoughtworks Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation. We are over 10,000 people strong across 48 offices in 19 countries. For 30+ years, we've delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator.
Business Wire
24-04-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Thoughtworks Signs Global Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, today announced a three-year global Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help accelerate modernization and migration to AWS. This SCA leverages Thoughtworks' proven software and data engineering frameworks, strategies and methodologies combined with AWS' advanced generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, to speed up clients' digital journeys. As part of the agreement, Thoughtworks and AWS will work together to develop generative AI-powered solutions that run on AWS for clients across several verticals including banking, financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing and automotive industries. Through use of Amazon Bedrock, which offers a vast selection of proven foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI and Stability AI, and includes Amazon Nova, a new generation of FMs, customers can test and deploy solutions to solve industry use-cases. Additionally, the companies will also co-create a cloud strategy to drive operational excellence for clients. That includes using Amazon Q Developer, one of the most capable generative AI assistants for software development, to take the heavy-lifting out of complex and time-consuming application migration and modernization projects, saving customers time and money. 'Together with AWS, Thoughtworks is committed to helping organizations driven by efficiency and cost optimization demands to build a migration and modernization strategy that will improve cost and efficiency while reducing risk with better compliance and security,' said Gene Reznik, Chief Strategy Officer and Global Head of Service Lines, Thoughtworks. 'As we continue to create customized cloud strategies that align with our clients' unique needs, our strategic collaboration agreement with AWS is crucial to helping ensure clients' cloud investments deliver meaningful business outcomes.' 'Our expanded collaboration with Thoughtworks provides customers with ready-made, industry-specific solutions that combine AWS's advanced generative AI services with Thoughtworks' engineering expertise to accelerate business outcomes,' said Chris Sullivan, Vice President, Americas Channels & Alliances at AWS. 'Whether looking to modernize a legacy application or build a new product experience, this collaboration will give customers across industries the tools they need to innovate faster while benefiting from the security, reliability and resiliency of AWS's global infrastructure." Thoughtworks has been partnering with First Student, the largest provider of student transportation services and leading operator of electric school buses in North America, since 2023. In support of First Student's new alternative transportation division, FirstAlt, Thoughtworks built a digital platform on AWS to match specialized vehicles to student transportation needs and a mobile first app that provides end-to-end ride visibility, allowing for the safest ride experience for students, their families and school districts. 'We selected Thoughtworks as a trusted collaborator to transform our business at speed and scale in the cloud with AWS. We saw strong results from the creation and launch of First Alt which provides school districts with a safe and reliable transportation option for students with special needs, students experiencing homelessness, out-of-district students and hard-to-serve trips,' said Sean McCormack, CIO, First Student. 'The collaboration we're seeing between Thoughtworks and AWS continues to ensure our cloud investments deliver meaningful business outcomes as we drive the future of school transportation through investment in digital technology and further expanding our AI capabilities.' The collaboration between Thoughtworks and AWS will benefit clients by: Accelerating Generative AI (GenAI) efforts: This SCA will help clients achieve a cohesive and forward-thinking GenAI strategy that leverages the full potential of data and AI. Thoughtworks will also leverage Haiven™ team assistant, an AI-enabled knowledge amplifier, to augment teams' expertise across all industry verticals and to accelerate tasks across the software delivery lifecycle. Thoughtworks' comprehensive approach to GenAI implementation provides an end-to-end capability to help customers move quickly from strategy development and proofs of concept to production-ready solutions. Creating industry-focused solutions: The companies will build technology integrations across industry verticals such as core banking and legacy payment modernization for the banking, financial services and insurance industries. Following the launch of the co-created SDV Pulse report, the companies will be introducing solutions that address capabilities such as Continuous Compliance for Vehicle DevOps and engineering efficiency. In healthcare and life sciences, the companies will help clients to break down silos for more efficient data sharing and insights for enhanced innovation. Accelerating enterprise platform modernizations: Thoughtworks' deep engineering expertise and proven practices in legacy modernizations, combined with AWS funding through programs such as the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), creates a powerful synergy. Thoughtworks will also leverage CodeConcise Legacy Assistant, an AI-enabled tool, to help clients assess legacy systems, tackle capability gaps and reduce the time and effort required to reap the rewards of enterprise modernization. Fueling our strategic collaboration: The strategic three-year collaboration will be underpinned by joint investment between AWS and Thoughtworks towards joint market development, opportunity acceleration, AWS training and certification, expansion of AWS-specialized sales and technical teams and technical development of new cloud and AI solutions. Thoughtworks has been helping clients migrate to AWS since 2006. Most recently, Thoughtworks has earned the AWS GenAI Competency. With over 500 AWS-certified Thoughtworkers globally across a variety of specializations, Thoughtworks has invested in training to gain a deeper and wider scope of expertise with which to help clients achieve their goals. Supporting resources: About Thoughtworks Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation. We are over 10,000 Thoughtworkers strong across 48 offices in 19 countries. For 30+ years, we've delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator.
