Our team

Laurence Smith

Laurence is the Director of Financial Services Analytics. He leads the development of Risilience’s financial services models and digital twin models.

Laurence’s most recent employment was at Lloyds Banking Group where he had several roles in the past 15 years including: credit risk modelling of mortgages impairment; probability of default modelling for corporates, universities, housing associations, sovereigns and project finance; pricing of personal products; and profitability analysis. Prior to that Laurence worked for Aviva pricing motor insurance and for a small economics consultancy.

Yee Voong

Yee is Office Manager at Risilience whose main focus is to streamline and optimize the physical workspace for better efficiency. To foster a positive workplace culture by recognizing accomplishments, offering growth opportunities, and providing a platform for open feedback. She is also the Executive Assistant to the CEO, managing the C-Suite’s calendar and scheduled meetings, engagements, conferences and business trips.

Before joining Risilience, Yee spent time at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge as Executive Assistant in the Alumni Department and before that spent 8 years at British Airways as Executive Assistant to the Director of Aircraft Engineering.

Robert Hardie

Rob is a Senior Solutions Specialist.

Rob has a background in the physical and social sciences and holds a PhD in public-private partnerships in carbon sequestration projects, which focused on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. Prior to working at Risilience, he led a regional sustainability programme at the University at Sheffield, creating and sourcing funding for cross-sector sustainability projects in the South Yorkshire region.

Rob also holds a MSc in Environmental Change and International Development from the University of Sheffield and BSc in Physical Geography from Newcastle University.