Our team

Oliver Carpenter

Oliver is Director of Environmental Risk Analytics at Risilience, where he leads the research and model development practice related to climate change, sustainability, and natural capital risks.

He has been instrumental in developing Risilience’s science and quantitative models to assess financial risks to businesses from environmental risks. Oliver is passionate about empowering organisations with innovative analytics to address the double-materiality of environmental risk and support net zero business transformation.
 
Previously in his role at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, Oliver’s research focused on quantifying the economic impacts of natural catastrophes and emerging risk scenario development for enterprise risk management.

He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Risk, majoring on physical climate change risk and natural hazard models, and a BSc in Physical Geography from Durham University.

Jacob Barrett

Jacob is a Product Manager and also an active player in communicating the models themselves, along with their outputs, to clients and has engaged in iterative improvements to various models.

With a background in geophysics, prior to Risilience, Jacob worked on assessing the economic viability of mining for a geochemistry company and spent a year investigating deep-mantle geophysics.

Professor Danny Ralph

Danny is Chairman 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.

Peter Hay

Peter is Director of Brand and Content at Risilience, working out of the Marketing team to protect the brand’s integrity and reputation while developing and implementing the company’s content marketing strategy.

Previously working as a journalist, Peter has subsequently had a career spanning 15 years in marketing with a focus on content and comms at B2B tech companies, including ThoughtWorks and Divido.

He holds a Master’s degree in History of Art, with a focus on Psychoanalysis and Modernism.

Tamara Evan

Tamara is a Senior Product Manager at Risilience, tasked with overseeing the expansion of functionalities on the Risilience platform as well as the development of future components of the tool to meet the growing needs of risk professionals worldwide.

She previously led the development of Risilience’s Enterprise risk analysis service, identifying emerging risks, and developing quantitative scenarios for use in corporate risk management, and continues to advise on corporate interest in non-climate associated risks.

Educated in history to a postgraduate level at the University of Bristol and UCL, Tamara approaches her work with an appreciation for the significant and long-term social and political impacts that can arise from major or mishandled shock events.

She was previously the Geopolitical Risk Research Lead at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Risk Studies from 2016.

Nina Pepper

Nina is SVP Marketing at Risilience. She brings 25 years’ marketing experience to the business and is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end marketing function.

Prior to joining Risilience, Nina held senior marketing roles at other rapidly-scaling tech companies, sitting on leadership teams responsible for awards such as Deloitte Fast 50, Queen’s Award for Enterprise, FT1000 and Times Tech Track 100.