Simon Thornington's career in professional software development began while still studying Computer Science at McGill, when he joined The Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation. While his prior hobby experience included writing device drivers and hardware simulators, it was at Hutchison that he came into his element, working notably on the creation of a back-end ticker plant, as well as the interface to their market data platform.

Mr. Thornington left Hutchison in 2001 to pursue research into proprietary algorithmic trading systems, but stayed engaged in software consulting, primarily related to web services and IP-based geolocation technologies.

In 2002, he co-founded Bradley & Thornington, a software consulting firm largely focused on capital markets oriented firms such as hedge funds and market data distribution vendors. The bulk of his work during this tenure was for a major US data vendor, working on both their back-end server platform as well as on several of their client-facing projects. Most recently, he built a reusable message bus based on a reliable multicast technology whose deployment is expected to dramatically reduce telecom costs.

Mr. Thornington took a leave of absence from software development in 2009 to pursue his MBA at HEC Montreal, focused on economics and finance. He is excited to resume his career in the software industry.