Thomas Horner
Cofounder and COO, BabelBit
With over 25 years at the forefront of technical innovation, Thomas Horner has shaped mission-critical systems: from flight simulations and infrastructure megaprojects to two decades building trading platforms for global giants including Citibank, BNP Paribas, and Millennium.
Selected highlights
- Directed elite engineering teams to deploy and manage enterprise-grade, distributed trading infrastructure under intense market pressures.
- Served as global technical lead for cutting-edge platforms at institutions including HSBC, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Royal Bank of Canada, and DRKW.
- Pioneered EDF Energy's first trading desk as part of an award-winning team honored nationally for innovation.
Pivot to Bittensor
Now, Thomas is channeling this expertise into Babelbit's mission: harnessing Bittensor's decentralized, open-source AI to tackle real-world challenges with the scalability, security, and reliability that institutions demand. From trading floors to AI frontiers, he is now bridging worlds to unlock transformative potential.
Now: BabelBit
Delivering a secure, high-availability, fault-tolerant Bittensor subnet for low‑latency speech‑to‑speech translation, where miners compete to reduce latency, improve accuracy, and increase computational efficiency, by optimising state-of-the-art LLMs.