Horace Cyrus founded GRIOTech to address a challenge he had encountered throughout his engineering career: buildings generate enormous amounts of operational information, yet the specialist expertise needed to interpret that information and act upon it remains difficult to apply consistently and at scale.
His career began in Trinidad's petrochemical industry, working in electrical and instrumentation engineering before moving into building services in the UK. Over more than 25 years, he progressed from hands-on BMS engineering, commissioning and operational management into energy optimisation, advanced analytics and technology leadership.
His experience spans complex commercial buildings, critical infrastructure, financial institutions and multi-building estates, combining practical engineering intervention with the development of new approaches to monitoring and improving building performance.
During nine years at Chartwell Controls, Horace progressed through senior engineering and energy-management roles to become Head of Connected Systems & Data Driven Services. He led the direction and development of connected building-performance services, including remote technical support, energy management, building analytics and data-driven maintenance.
He also conceived and led the development of in-Sites, Chartwell's building-analytics platform, translating years of practical engineering experience into a structured approach to evaluating building performance and identifying operational inefficiencies. The platform remains in use in commercial buildings today.
His work extends beyond conventional building engineering into product development and invention, including a granted patent in specialist healthcare-environment design, reflecting a broader interest in developing practical solutions to complex operational and environmental challenges.
At GRIOTech, Horace leads the product vision, architecture and design of ABIE, including its patent-pending cognitive architecture. His ambition is to make specialist engineering understanding continuously available across individual buildings and entire property portfolios.
