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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.
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.
Robert Capurro
Robert is VP, Sales UK/EMEA, supporting our drive to continue growing our client base across the UK and Europe, with a particular emphasis on DACH and Southern Europe.
Robert joins us from S&P Global Market Intelligence where he was Director of Sales Risk Intelligence, enabling corporate leaders and risk professionals make better strategic decisions leveraging Economic and Country Risk intelligence and insights. Prior to S&P Global, Robert was CEO of Canning House, the UK's leading Latin America focused think tank. This followed many years as a corporate insurance broker in the City of London and Europe and Latin America with Aon and Willis Towers Watson, specializing in major complex risks across multiple sectors including utilities, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, mining, paper & pulp and forestry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lisa Millard
Lisa joins us as Content Writer in the Marketing team and will play a key role in supporting our content strategy.
Lisa previously worked as a journalist (fashion initially), and latterly as a feature writer and columnist contributing to a number of national and regional titles.
More recently, Lisa has worked closely with research centres across the University of Cambridge including; Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, Centre for Climate Engagement, Centre for Digital Built Britain, and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Targeted Delivery for Hard-to-Treat Cancers, creating articles, blog posts, and website and social media content for a wide audience across a range of platforms. Much of her recent writing about smart infrastructure has championed the benefits to industry of using digital tools and data-driven insights for better decision making in relation to net zero, resilience and resource constraint.
