Management
Management
Mr Nicholas Plowman – Executive Director
Nicholas was a founding investor in Typhoon and became CEO in January 2003. Prior to his involvement with the company Nicholas was based in Hong Kong, during which time he worked for the US sports network ESPN, the World Sports Group, and Frontiers Capital.
Dr Bradley Goldsmith - Chief Technology Officer
Brad has been working in R&D and management in the IT industry for over 15 years. Starting in heavy industry, designing thermal imaging systems, Brad worked for Circle Technology (formerly a division of Boral) in Australia and then FLS Automation in Denmark. He began private consulting in early 1999 and was involved in numerous projects and start-ups involving broadcast multimedia systems, mobile devices and satellite telephony. In addition to his commercial work, Brad has lectured at Australian and Chinese universities and has been invited to speak at conferences internationally on distributed supercomputing. Brad holds a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Wollongong as well as master and PhD degrees from the University of Tasmania. Previously technical director of BetOptions, Brad has a broad experience in fixed price bookmaking operations and has worked with leading Australian and International corporate bookmakers.
Mr Emil Koutanov – Chief Architect
Emil's background includes 12 years of software development, of which 7 years was comprised of engineering experience, specialising in high speed transaction processing, clustering and signal processing.
Emil's academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Engineering (in Software Engineering) and Diploma of Engineering Practice, with First Class Honours and the University Medal. Emil's input and expertise have been pivotal in developing many of the innovative features behind the Typhoon wagering platform and other products of Typhoon Gaming. Emil is also a co-founder and advisor to a number of other Australian companies specialising in high performance and high availability computing, as well as financial markets.
Mr Greg Kopff – Senior Architect
Greg is the principal co-inventor of Typhoon and the company's senior system architect. He is also head of the R&D group at Typhoon Gaming. Greg is a professional software engineer and he graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with First Class Honours in 2004. He finished first in the Order of Merit. Greg has been designing and building complex transaction processing systems since 1998; most of these systems have been for wagering and gaming and all have required ultra-high performance and very high fault tolerance. Many of the innovative system architectural features, and the advanced application facilities in Typhoon were invented by Greg.
Ms Zoe Rankin – Finance and Operations Manager
Zoe joined Typhoon in 2010 from the Sydney accounting firm Kirkby Jones and holds a Bachelor of Business degree in Accounting. Zoe recently completed studies in the Chartered Accountants Program with the Australian an Institute of Chartered Accountants and is now completing a part-time MBA.
