Our team

Dr Alexandra Dixon

Alex is a 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 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 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.

Dr Paul Burgess

Paul is Head of Client Development, Europe, at RIsilience, responsible for business development in the UK and Europe, and for working with corporate clients to ensure they obtain value from the analytics and services that Risilience provides.

Paul has spent 20 years helping insurance companies understand and interpret science- and engineering-based risk metrics related to natural catastrophe, terrorism, cyber, longevity and pandemic risk.

More recently Paul has been involved in start-up businesses looking to improve risk management in the insurance and corporate space. He has been working with corporations wishing to adopt more rigorous and quantitative risk management techniques, especially around climate change (as an input to TCFD reporting and Net-Zero) and developing projects to connect those companies with the academic work of the Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Paul holds a PhD from the Climate Research Unit of University of East Anglia where he focussed on the dynamics of ice age development and decay to understand possible future ice ages in various carbon dioxide emissions scenarios.

Taryn Hubbard

Taryn is a technical document manager at Risilience and is responsible for the creation of client-facing methodologies for the ‘Climate Risilience’ platform. She works closely with cross-functional teams to gather insights and ensure adherence to industry standards, as well as running workshops in effective technical writing for developers. Taryn was previously a business risk analyst (specialising in aviation) and the first technical writer at Risilience, and prior to joining the company in 2020 worked in the third sector. Taryn holds an MA (Cantab) in English from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

Tim Waterson

Tim Waterson is a Software Engineer at Risilience.

Prior to joining Risilience, Tim worked for a number of years for a large Manchester-based online retailer. He has experience designing, developing and monitoring complex, highly-scalable software systems.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of York.