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JUXT was founded in London in 2013 by its current chief executive Jon Pither and chief technology officer Malcolm Sparks. Their background was in banking and working for premium consultancies like ThoughtWorks but they grew frustrated with the growing complexity of IT systems and yearned for simplicity. They moved to JUXT HQ in Milton Keynes in 2015.
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Main picture: Jon Pither (left) and Malcolm Sparks with Vlad Yatsenko (centre), co-founder and chief technology officer of global neobank and financial technology company Revolut and keynote speaker at JUXT’s XT24 Fintech Conference in Milton Keynes in May. Below: Malcolm Sparks in conversation with XT24 speakers Fran Bennett, Mark Burgess, Vlad Yatsenko and Jason Bloomberg.
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“Our aim is to simplify IT,” said Malcolm. “We had been working in large institutions where IT is complex and firms come to over-rely on it. There are systems that you can build for 1% of the cost and do as much as you need them to.”
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