Team
Reask brings a broad range of expertise from the fields of numerical modelling, data science, high-performance computing and insurance.
Jamie Rodney
As leader of Reask, Jamie is concerned with all aspects of driving our business forward with innovative and practical products for the market. With extensive commercial experience underpinned by academic success, Jamie embodies Reask’s combined ambition of scientific excellence and pragmatic solutions.
Leadership and Strategy
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Thomas Loridan
Thomas leads the development of our global risk models, with a slight obsession for all things machine learning. Having built several tropical cyclone risk models for the cat modelling industry, Thomas has a strong understanding of the strength and limitations of current model solutions. His job at Reask is to make sure we get rid of these limitations.
Risk Modeling Solutions
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Louise Braybrooke
Understanding our complex market requires extensive experience and a pragmatic approach to achieve success. As a specialist in Technical Sales, Account Management and Customer Success in the catastrophe and geospatial analytics vertical, Louise has deep industry knowledge and a strong market network leading our growth across the globe.
Client Success
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Innocent Ndoda
To bring our world class services to market in an efficient and effective way, we need the best understanding of how to combine our financial structure and investment strategy. Fortunately Innocent has been helping leading technology companies understand this over the last 20 years, and we’re blessed to have him on our team.
Finance and Investment Strategy
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David Schmid
With the increasing importance of parametric solutions in the global insurance market, Reask are delivering solutions that ensure sound science underpins critical risk transfer mechanisms. David brings to Reask experience in developing and structuring innovative parametric Nat Cat solutions for the world’s leading risk carriers.
Parametric Products
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Stephanie Powell
Servicing our customers and clients demands the most dedicated professionals in the market, which is why Stephanie is our Head of Relationships. Stephanie brings more than 18 years of experience in the insurance and catastrophe analytics space to define our relationships with our clients across the world.
Relationship Management
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Nic Hannah
High-performance computing lies at the heart of our proposition. As Chief Technology Officer and founder of Reask natural hazard repository InCyc, Nic brings a wealth of expertise in the use of distributed and super-computing capability from his experience in environmental modelling as a software engineer and scientific programmer.
High Performance Computing
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Nico Bruneau
Our models are only as good as the data they are built on. Nico has developed our automated knowledge discovery engine, using state-of-the-art methods from the field of image processing and pattern recognition. Beyond mining global earth system data, Nico oversees the research around our new generation of innovative catastrophe models.
Earth System Data
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Balaji Mani
Understanding why our models accurately represent the risks they characterise is as difficult as building the models themselves. Balaji is an experienced practitioner of model development and evaluation and brings a well-deserved reputation for excellence in delivering world-class solutions to market
Catastrophe Model Development
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Nick Hassam
Nick is an expert in the application of technology to the global re/insurance industry to better understand the impact of natural catastrophes, and has over 20 years’ professional experience. In close collaboration with our team, partners and clients, Nick is helping define the future of catastrophe modelling.
Commercial Operations
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Laura Owen
Bringing research experience from the UK’s finest academic institutions, Laura is helping us define the science underpinning our market-leading models. With a strong background in Mathematics and having recently completed a PhD in the subject, Laura is helping us model the extremes of the weather and climate.
Catastrophe Model Development
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Ignatius Ryan Pranantyo
With multi-disciplinary knowledge and experience in ocean, tsunami, and surge modelling, Ryan brings more than 10 years of research experience to Reask, collaborating with respected academic and governmental organisations across Indonesia, Australia and the UK. As one of our Catastrophe Model Developers, Ryan will help advance Reask’s product offerings.
Catastrophe Model Development
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Joseph Lockwood
Developing the human resources to build the climate risk models of the future means finding the newest and brightest academics for our internship program. Joseph brings knowledge and research experience across geophysics and atmospheric science from the leading academic institutions in the UK and US.
Catastrophe Model Development
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Advisors
Eugene Dubossarsky
When it comes to leveraging the latest advances in machine learning, we understand there is no faking it. That’s why we turned to the best for advice and mentoring. Eugene has over 20 years of experience playing with neural nets and the likes, and we are proud to have him as Reask’s in house AI guru.
AI and Innovation
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Daniel Swain
As a pre-eminent climate scientist, Daniel holds joint appointments within UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, as a research fellow in the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and as the California Climate Fellow at The Nature Conservancy.
Climate Science
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