Our team

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.

Jean-Pierre (JP) Wack

Jean-Pierre (JP) Wack is a Product Manager with experience developing science and technology driven businesses for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Previously at Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), he was productizing applied research for wildfire risk modelling with the Pyregence consortium in Western US and remote sensing services with the USAID/NASA SERVIR program in the Amazon basin. Prior to SIG, he led the adoption of forest fire detection technologies in Indonesia with Insight Robotics and environmental design for historic buildings In London with Eight Associates.

Jean-Pierre holds an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a master’s in Economics from the University of Strasbourg.

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.

Jonny Clarke-Hassell

Jonny joins us as a Client Success Manager (CSM), which is fast becoming a critical role for our company as an increasing number of our subscription-based clients are nearing the end of their platform implementations and require a touchpoint for post-implementation support and service.

To clarify his title, Jonny is not a manager of people but of customer relationships: the development and expansion of our CSM team will enable us to cultivate proper SaaS provider-style relationships with our subscription customers, as well as establish additional structure around our account and renewal strategies.

Ben Boukhobza

Ben is SVP, Sales EMEA. He is responsible for new business growth across the EMEA and APAC regions as well as leading two key growth initiatives for Risilience. Building relationships and use cases with Financial Institutions, most notably on the investor side as well as creating and implementing commercial partnerships to open further sales distribution channels.

Prior to joining Risilience, Ben spent 12 years at Moody’s in a variety of commercial positions across Sales, Strategy, Account Management, Sales Operations with experience creating and building out new teams across Moody’s corporation, most recently leading the ESG & Climate Sales and Solution Specialist teams in EMEA and the Americas.

Ben holds a BSc (Hons) in International Business with French & Spanish from Aston University, Birmingham.

Charlie Whitton

As Head of Finance, Charlie is responsible for managing the financial reporting, control environment and day-to-day financial operations.

Charlie has a background in early stage technology companies and experience of scaling operations to manage growth. He trained as a chartered certified accountant at Deloitte, where he managed a portfolio of audit clients focusing on Cambridge based technology companies and UK real estate.