Our team

Mark Pinkerton

Mark is VP of Software Engineering at Risilience and leads the software development team responsible for the technical development and operation of the company’s cloud-based SaaS offerings.

Mark has over 15 years experience developing risk-management systems and analytics. Prior to Risilience, he was Senior Director of Analytics at Guidewire, where he managed the engineering team, developing predictive analytics for the insurance industry.

Mark holds a Master’s degree in Statistical Science from University College London, where his thesis focussed on statistical approaches to modelling extreme flood depths in the UK, and a Master’s degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Andrew Garraway

Andy is our Climate Policy Lead at Risilience, with a focus on the policy response to climate change and its impacts on transition risk.

Before joining Risilience, Andy was based in the Cabinet Office where he worked on the negotiation strategy for the UK’s Presidency of COP26. Prior to this, Andy worked in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on energy security and decarbonisation policy. Before entering the Civil Service, Andy worked in a range of environmental- and renewables- focussed roles, including consultancy, and in planning and development at Lightsource BP.

Andy holds an MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy from SOAS, University of London. He also holds a BA (Hons) in German and Dutch and an MA in Town and Regional Planning, both from the University of Sheffield.

Yan Bin Pan

Bin is a Senior Software Engineer at Risilience, he specializes in backend development, cloud infrastructure and model development platform. He is heavily involved in building and maintaining the infrastructure and tooling that make up the modelling platform, from large scale geospatial data and high performance compute to data pipelines automation using cloud native technologies and latest security practices.

His background is in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London. He worked as a Lifing engineer at Rolls Royce before moving to a data science aviation startup where he worked as a full-stack engineer building a platform to quantify aviation climate impact.

Aisling Harrington-Brown

Aisling is a Senior Sales Associate at Risilience whose role is to help across the full sales cycle and expand Risilience’s presence in EMEA. Her responsibilities include assisting Sales and Marketing with lead generation, working alongside multinational companies to identify new business opportunities and drive internal business transformation to reduce emissions, and delivering a high level of service to existing clients.

Aisling has previously worked in management consulting and account management and holds a First Class Honours in English Language and Literature from the University of Nottingham.

James Leslie

As VP, Client Solutions, James will build best practices and structure to ensure that our clients, who are increasingly entering a post-implementation relationship phase, continuously drive value from our platform and offering.

James joins us following 17 years of client-facing experience in B2B SaaS companies, primarily in the start-up or scale-up phase. Much of this time was spent at Transversal, a company whose alumni also includes Graham Arnold, where he served as VP of Customer Success and Client Services.

Aaron Gress

Aaron is VP, Sales US at Risilience.

Before joining Risilience, Aaron spent the last decade as a climate-tech sales leader using data to improve corporations’ business and sustainability goals. Most recently, he was at a Series A start-up (since purchased by Generac Power Systems (NYSE: GNRC)) that deployed a hardware-enabled SaaS product to optimize truck routes for the delivered fuel industry; saving delivery costs and reducing CO2.

Aaron’s sustainability journey started as a Sustainable Agriculture Volunteer in Ecuador with the US Peace Corps and during his grad school studies at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.