Our team

Dr Tim Summers

Tim is a Senior Data Scientist at Risilience, working on large datasets and integrating information flows into the product analytics.

One of the main themes of his work is the rigorous study of climate change models, and the emerging costs to corporate business models of changes to temperature and precipitation patterns globally. Tim’s other focus areas are the data modelling of cyber and geopolitical risks.

Tim holds an MA and PhD in Engineering from University of Cambridge, and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong.

Tom Sabbatelli-Goodyer

Tom is VP, Client Solutions and is responsible for supporting clients as they use Risilience products and ensuring accurate climate and enterprise analytics. In this role he oversees all client service and support operations and implements initiatives to maximize efficiency and client satisfaction.

A passionate science communicator, his commentary has been featured in media, including television (BBC News, Sky News) and print (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal).

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 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.

Dr Matthew Hopwood

Matt is a Risk Modeller at Risilience whose role involves the research and construction of models examining a wide variety of phenomena related to risks encountered by business due to climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as general enterprise risks.

Prior to working at Risilience, Matt completed a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the Universities of Birmingham and Adelaide.