our team
Meet the
Risilience team
Risilience understands that climate and nature risk is business risk. We work together to support global enterprise to understand and manage the financial implications of climate-and-nature-related-risks – and to optimise commercial opportunities.
A multidisciplinary, diverse and passionate team
Our team comprises subject-matter experts who leverage scientifically-grounded environmental frameworks, co-developed with the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, to quantify, strategise, and deliver the analytical depth, precision, and credibility required by global business to turn sustainability into a driver of brand value, financial resilience, and competitive edge.
Meet our founding team
Dr Andrew Coburn
CEO
Dr Michelle Tuveson
Senior Advisor of Strategic Initiatives
Professor Danny Ralph
Senior Advisor
Simon Ruffle
CIO
Dr Andrew Coburn
Andrew is CEO and a founder member of Risilience. He is responsible for the overall business success and direction of the company, and was the main architect behind the models and analytics that go into the Risilience platform.
Andrew has previously been one of the early-stage innovators of the catastrophe modelling industry for insurance, where he has created and brought numerous analytics products to market.
Andrew is one of the founder members of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, where he maintains a position as Chief Scientist.
Dr Michelle Tuveson
Michelle is Senior Advisor of Strategic Initiatives to Risilience where she provides expertise in guiding the strategic direction to its leadership.
Michelle helps teams identify new opportunities for growth and strategies for development. She advises on markets, liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for strategic initiatives.
Michelle is Chairman and Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. She is a frequent commentator and moderator at risk and sustainability thought leadership events and conferences.
Professor Danny Ralph
Danny is Senior Advisor and a founder member of Risilience.
He is an authority on managing risk in business and has published widely in his capacity as Professor of Operations Research at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, where he also founded the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies for which he is Academic Director.
Danny’s interests in business risk include identification and management of systemic risk, risk aversion in investment, economic equilibria models and optimisation methods.
Simon Ruffle
Simon is Chief Information Officer and a founder of Risilience.
He is the original architect behind the Risilience SaaS Platform. He is responsible for compliance, IT, ESG, security, standards, interoperability, and data.
Meet our executive team
Dr Andrew Coburn
CEO
Duncan Powell
CFO
Angela Brown
CPO
Lisa Stanton
CRO
Dr Andrew Coburn
Andrew is CEO and a founder member of Risilience. He is responsible for the overall business success and direction of the company, and was the main architect behind the models and analytics that go into the Risilience platform.
Andrew has previously been one of the early-stage innovators of the catastrophe modelling industry for insurance, where he has created and brought numerous analytics products to market.
Andrew is one of the founder members of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, where he maintains a position as Chief Scientist.
Duncan Powell
Duncan is CFO at Risilience, where he oversees the financial management and strategic business planning for the company.
As a growth-orientated finance leader with over 25 years’ experience, he has deep expertise in strategic and financial planning; corporate and business development; mergers and acquisitions; business and financial optimisation; and fundraising in both private and public companies.
Angela Brown
Angela is Chief Product Officer at Risilience overseeing the company’s development activities including product management, modelling, and engineering.
Angela has nearly 20 years of experience working across the Financial Services and FinTech space with much of that time spent in product strategy and development roles. During her career she has covered a range of technologies and content domains including fundamentals financial data, credit risk, climate analytics, ESG data and scores and, sustainable finance.
Lisa Stanton
Lisa is Chief Revenue Officer at Risilience, where she leads the firm’s business expansion efforts globally.
Prior to joining Risilience, Lisa worked at Moody’s Corporation’s ESG, Climate and Sustainable Finance business unit as its global head of sales and customer success. She joined Moody’s via its acquisition of climate-risk data and analytics firm Four Twenty Seven, where she also held the role of Chief Revenue Officer.
In her early career, Lisa worked in asset management, leading investment strategy and client teams at Barra, AXA Rosenberg, GMO, LLC, and BlackRock.
“We’re committed to delivering the insights that matter to business leaders and strategic decision makers. Whether it’s decarbonisation ROI, physical risk quantification or nature-based scenario analysis, our advanced analytics, tools and expert team make complex data actionable.”
Dr Andrew Coburn, CEO Risilience
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