Tom Thorne

Technology

Operating Partner

Specialist in cloud, fintech & realtime systems

Board Member | Mapex

MBA | Stanford

Tom Thorne provides Relay Investments with additional due diligence and investment expertise on European technology businesses. He serves as Relay’s representative on the board of Enginyeria Mapex, a business providing Manufacturing Execution Systems software in Barcelona, Spain. Relay invested in the company in April 2018.

Tom is currently acting as CTO at PepperHQ, a cloud-based platform for the hospitality sector that delivers mobile-based ordering, payments, and user rewards via mobile Apps.  Previously, Tom served as Director of Architecture at Eze Software Group (#50 in Fintech top 100), defining and implementing strategy for transforming on-prem products to the cloud.  Prior to Eze, Tom co-founded Tradar, a leading middle and back office platform for the Buy Side, and acted as CTO where he built the technology and engineering teams from scratch. Before joining Tradar, Tom co-founded FPS, a lighting control company that transformed its industry, and drove the creation of advanced lighting control systems for theatre and broadcast control.

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Tom has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.