CV
Every position I've held, newest first.
Download CV (PDF)May 2026 – October 2026
Chief Risk Officer (designate)
Agriculture MGAAgriculture MGA planned but not launched
- Planned, as incoming Chief Risk Officer, an MGA targeting a few hundred million dollars in gross written premium.
- Shaped its two lines: bespoke price risk coverage for agricultural commodities, and reinsurance of USDA agricultural insurance programs.
- Shelved in October 2026 following change in market demand.
2018–2024
Chief Financial Officer
Scoot ScienceOcean analytics start-up using physics based models of the ocean to manage risk for near-coastal industrial operators.
- Advisor, Board member, and Executive at a first-of-its-kind startup.
- Sold innovative science-first risk management software to multinational industrial clients.
- Built the company's financial forecasts (FP&A) and helped raise all of its more than $8 million in venture funding.
- Ran a team of five direct reports building analytics for ocean-based insurance.
- Took an MGA built on Scoot's ocean analytics to the eve of launch inside reinsurance broker Howden's MGA incubator. Shelved due to large losses in traditional aquaculture mortality coverage.
2015–2020
Senior Quantitative Strategist
Nephila CapitalNephila Climate, the weather and climate risk funds of Nephila, one of the world's oldest and largest providers of property catastrophe capital (roughly $13 billion in assets at the time).
- Underwrote all agriculture risk for a team managing $900 million in assets for institutional investors, building new quantitative risk models for risks outside traditional catastrophe models.
- Delivered an estimated $300 million in underwriting profit to shareholders from the agriculture book, led by India's national crop insurance scheme.
- Grew the agriculture line at Lloyd's of London to $120 million, among the largest agriculture books in the Lloyd's marketplace.
2014–2015
Catastrophe Modeler
PraedicatStart-up modeling emerging casualty catastrophe risk ("the next asbestos") for insurers.
- Built, as the company's first catastrophe modeler, the first version of the forward-looking model that became Moody's casualty catastrophe model, in C++, R and Python.
- Modeled hundreds of property-casualty catastrophe hypotheses under active litigation, covering a comprehensive suite of potential casualty losses.
2012–2013
Researcher, Office of the Chief Economist
Commodity Futures Trading Commission- Developed the most comprehensive statistics to date on the lifecycle of new derivatives, as graduate research supporting the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
2010–2012
Researcher
GlobalAgRiskDevelopment research firm; work funded by grants from the Gates Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme and the German development agency GIZ.
- Priced, modeled and sold the world's first insurance against catastrophic El Niño, to Peruvian microfinance bank Caja Nuestra Gente.
- Transferred 95% of the risk to US reinsurer PartnerRe in a commercially priced hedge.
- Built the first regulated insurance on a predictive index, using NOAA sea surface temperatures.
2007–2009
Project Manager
J.E. Austin Associates- Porject manager for a consulting firm administering large agribusiness development projects funded by the World Bank and USAID