Thomas Brennan
CEO at Franc
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Brennan is a Rhodes Scholar-trained engineer and CEO of Franc with 12 years of experience building mission-driven products that make smart investing accessible. He blends deep technical chops—from signal processing and machine learning developed during a DPhil at Oxford and research at MIT—with hands-on startup leadership, personally coding, pitching, and shaping strategy. Previously he led R&D across diverse product lines at Discovery and has a track record of applying clinical and telehealth data science to real-world problems. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, Thomas pairs academic rigor with practical product delivery, favoring big, measurable problems like wealth inequality over incremental fixes. Notably, his career moves reflect a sustained focus on using data-driven systems to improve decision-making in both healthcare and financial services.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil Engineering Science, DPhil Engineering Science at University of OxfordBachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cape Town
Spanish, AfrikaansProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tpbrennan/mimic2v30
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 2 months
MIT-LCP/hdlvef
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
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