Wayne Nelms
CTO of Ornn, building a financial exchange for trading GPU compute and memory as standardized commodities; background in quantitative trading and co-founded Ornn to financialize compute markets.
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Feb 10, 2026 • 41min
The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn
Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn and former quantitative trader, is building a financial exchange to trade GPU compute and memory as standardized commodities. He discusses pricing dynamics, hedging with futures, memory trading, depreciation and residual-value products. Short, forward-looking conversation about how financial markets could reshape GPU utilization, data-center finance, and hardware lifecycle risk.
