Thoughtified

About

The Thoughtified team

We are an experienced team of developers, designers, geniuses and code monkeys that work around the clock to create the best cloud-based software systems. Thoughtified was created in 2009 by Aaron Mason and Georgios Michalakidis, gathering numerous awards as they initially developed location-aware and data processing technologies.

As the team has grown, focus has remained on developing intelligent software for internet-based systems within the geographic, enterprise and mobile environments. Thoughtified makes it easy to commission custom built, technically advanced software systems and Web platforms. To find out how we can help meet your requirements, read more about working with us.

The Management Team

Georgios Michalakidis   Managing Director
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Georgios is an experienced and extremely enthusiastic entrepreneur – he has been team-leading and growing software, Web and data businesses since 1999. He co-founded and directs Thoughtified (awarded Best Graduate Startup 2011) and currently working on online data delivery and asset tracking for SMEs conservation and wildlife as well as social collaboration platforms. His business was recently awarded TSB funding. He has previously worked for NASA, OECD, UKTI and Logitech and currently directs three businesses. Georgios holds a BSc (Hons) degree, a MSc degree and is completing his thesis for a PhD award. He is also an Associate of the Higher Education Academy. He also has excellent taste in eyewear.
Aaron Mason  
Managing Director
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Aaron has a passion for turning thought into action through the application of technology in innovative ways. He has an established interest in startups and co-founded Thoughtified in 2009. Aaron is passionate about Web technologies and related technologies, such as the Internet of Things. He holds a Computing and IT bachelor degree and a master degree in Internet Computing. Aaron is currently finishing his PhD which focuses on Participatory Sensing.
Nick Ryman-Tubb 
Business Development Director
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Nick started as a software engineer; by twenty Nick had produced and sold his own designed 8-bit rack-based computer, popular computer games and published many articles. Nick founded Tubb Research in 1986 and worked to help bring the world’s first neural computing Integrated Circuit to market. In 1990, he founded Neural Technologies Limited to concentrate on the application of neural network software that he had created. He became a Research Fellow at City University London researching state of the art neural-symbolic approaches at the Department of Computing and then moved on to the University of Surrey, as Director of Industrial Liaison, to carry on his leading edge neural computing research hands-on producing over 50,000 lines of software, a patent, papers and books and working with industry partners and experts to develop research into practical solutions.

The Advisory Team

Paul KrauseProfessor Paul Krause  Research Advisor
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Paul Krause is Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computing at Surrey University. His research career has spanned 34 years, with contributions in the fields of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. Paul was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for his work on applying theoretical approaches from Artificial Intelligence to software engineering. His work currently focusses on the application of open systems theory to industrial and digital ecosystems.
Jonathan Hodrien 
Public Sector and IP Advisor
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Jonathan graduated from University College London, holds an MBA qualification and is the University of Surrey’s Technology Transfer Manager with responsibilities for Bio-health, IT and environmental technologies. He has 22 years of commercial banking experience. Jonathan is key SETsquared staff and helps ensure strong, collaborative links with Surrey’s Research and Enterprise. Jonathan has been heavily involved with environmental charities as a past director of Stakeholder Forum, Director of Friends of Conservation, and Chair of Trustees of the Cheetah Conservation Fund UK. He remains Chair of Global Tiger Patrol 

Senior Development Team

Alfie
Senior Development Officer
Antonios
Senior Web Developer
George
Coder Extraordinare
Simon
Web App Developer
Vassilis
Algorithm Developer
Adrian
Web and mobile developer

Join the Thoughtified Team

The Thoughtified team also consists of designers, frontend/UX developers, junior developers, researchers and interns. Want to get involved? We’re always looking for the best talent so contact us or check our recruitment page for immediate vacancies.