Hessian

Bao, co-founder and CEO of Hessian – leads GTM, fundraising, customer relationships, and ML strategy. He co-founded Zettafleet, leading engineers to build a decentralized LLM training platform on hundreds of GPUs, and was a SWE at Bloomberg building ML pipelines to rate physical assets and managed a Bloomberg-Goldman Sachs Index. MPhil (scholarship) from the University of Cambridge and BSc from Durham University in CS, with publications in ML systems, including research with Google DeepMind.

James, co-founder and COO of Hessian – leads forward-deployed engagements: customer relationship, system design, shipping AI pipelines to production. Previously five years at Bloomberg building a data platform processing billions of observations for financial firms, including entity-disambiguation AI pipelines, then DRW building data infrastructure and pipelines for commodities trading desks. CS at Durham University (top of year); awarded three scholarships from the University of Cambridge.

Tom, co-founder and CTO of Hessian – leads technical direction and engineering of the platform which Hessian runs on. Previously at GoCardless, he was part of a team which migrated the core payments database to a more scalable provider live with zero downtime, on a system processing over £1B on peak days. Prior, spent 2 years at CMC Markets building a 0-to-1 retail trading app for US investors. BSc in CS from Durham University, where his team won the IBM prize for shipping a production CMS.