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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.
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.
Saim Ghouse
Saim is VP, Sales US supporting our efforts to substantially grow our footprint in North America. Saim is based in New York, tipping the US (Risilience) center of gravity back to the East Coast!
Saim joins us from Moody’s Analytics where he was an ESG and Climate Sales Specialist, selling primarily into the Corporate, Asset Management and Commercial Real Estate (CRE) verticals. Prior to Moody's, Saim worked at Aon in their consulting practice with a focus on Banking and Capital Markets.
Lisa Stanton
Lisa is Chief Revenue Officer at Risilience, where she leads the firm's business expansion efforts globally.
Prior to joining Risilience, Lisa worked at Moodys Corporation's ESG, Climate and Sustainable Finance business unit as its global head of sales and customer success. She joined Moody's via its acquisition of climate-risk data and analytics firm Four Twenty Seven, where she also held the role of Chief Revenue Officer.
In her early career, Lisa worked in asset management, leading investment strategy and client teams at Barra, AXA Rosenberg, GMO, LLC, and BlackRock.
Lisa holds a BBA from Southern Methodist University and is a CFA charterholder.
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.
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.
Dr Alexandra Dixon
Alex is a Associate 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.
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.
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.
Thomas Harvey
Thomas is SVP Product at Risilience and is responsible for the overall strategy and commercial success of the Risilience product suite. He also leads the data science and model development team. In this role Thomas defines the product strategy and roadmap and, working closely with the development teams, manages the end-to-end development lifecycle.
Prior to joining Risilience Thomas worked at Guidewire Software where he led the European Predictive Analytics and Risk Consulting team. Thomas spent seven years at Risk Management Solutions (RMS) in a variety of client-facing and product-management roles.
Thomas holds a BSc (Hons) from the University of Leeds in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics.
