James, co-founder and COO of Hessian – leads forward-deployed engagements: customer relationship, system design, shipping AI pipelines to production. Previously fiv years at Bloomberg building a data platform processing billions of observations for financial firms, including entity-disambiguation AI pipelines; a year at 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.