Our team
Meet the Risilience team
At Risilience, you’ll be part of a multidisciplinary, diverse and passionate team of richly talented individuals.
Our team has one common goal: to put the power of risk science in the hands of global enterprises, translating data into actionable insights, through our Climate Risilience solutions.
Thomas Harvey
Thomas Harvey
Thomas is SVP Product at Risilience and is responsible for the overall strategy and commercial success of the Risilience product suite. He also leads the data science and model development team. In this role Thomas defines the product strategy and roadmap and, working closely with the development teams, manages the end-to-end development lifecycle.Prior to joining Risilience Thomas worked at Guidewire Software where he led the European Predictive Analytics and Risk Consulting team. Thomas spent seven years at Risk Management Solutions (RMS) in a variety of client-facing and product-management roles.
Thomas holds a BSc (Hons) from the University of Leeds in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics.
Dr Scott Kelly
Dr Scott Kelly
Scott heads the Model Development Team. He is responsible for the full scope of product related R&D activity including modelling, data science, data acquisition and corporate finance.Before joining Risilience, Scott was Chief Economic Advisor to the Environmental Commissioner of the New Zealand government. Prior to that he was Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and was an invited member of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative. He was instrumental in raising early awareness on the importance of sustainable finance and worked to establish the Climate Measurement Standards Initiative to standardize climate reporting across the financial sector in Australia.
Dr Alexandra Dixon
Dr Alexandra Dixon
Alex is a Associate Data Scientist at Risilience, working predominantly in climate modelling. Her main goals are to develop Bayesian statistical models which incorporate uncertainty into the product.Prior to joining Risilience Alex worked for a SaaS start-up, designing algorithms to detect fraud, waste and abuse in private healthcare data.
Alex holds a MSci and a PhD in Physics from the University of Birmingham.
Eric Drattell
Eric Drattell
Eric is Risilience’s general counsel. Working remotely from the San Francisco Bay Area, he is responsible for the company’s global legal requirements. Eric joined Risilience after 15 years as a general counsel, including 10 years with Risk Management Solutions where, in addition to having led its legal services team, he also headed the company’s information security, regulatory teams and communications teams, and managed the company’s London and Zurich offices.Prior to going in-house, Eric was a partner in the DC offices of the global law firm, McDermott, Will & Emery, where he acted both as a litigator and lead negotiator on a range of technology transactions.
Eric’s specialty is in technology transactions; however, he also has a broad range of experience in other disciplines, including corporate and employment law, privacy, information security, litigation, and regulatory practices.
An active mentor, Eric currently works with university students through the ScholarMatch programme
Eric is a member of the District of Columbia and California bar associations.
William Turner
William Turner
William is Business Risk Data Scientist at Risilience, where he is responsible for developing climate models and integrating them into the platform.He works closely with climate risk modellers at Risilience to develop frameworks for mapping the physical and transition risks of climate change onto a company’s balance sheet. He also supports product development.
Prior to Risilience, William completed a graduate scheme in model development at a transport planning consultancy.
William holds a Master’s degree in Natural Sciences, specialising in Physics and Mathematics, from the University of Nottingham.
