Meet the experts driving Risk Frontiers’ research and innovation.

Our team combines scientific expertise with industry experience to deliver world-class risk analysis and resilience solutions.

Executive leadership team

Ryan Crompton

Managing Director & CEO

James O’Brien

General Manager

Mark Leplastrier

General Manager

Foster Langbein

Chief Technology Officer

Staff

Stuart Browning

Climate Risk Scientist

Jacob Evans

Senior Risk Scientist

Steven George

Research Associate

Estefania Montoya

Risk Scientist

Maxime Marin

Senior Risk Scientist

Tahiry Rabehaja

Principal Software Engineer

Paul Somerville

Chief Geoscientist

Behnam Beheshtian

Risk Engineer

Vicki Chen

Software Engineer

Glenn Stone

Principal Statistician

Rosa Cammareri

Office Manager/ EA

Board members

Paul Allison

Chairman

Ryan Crompton

Managing Director & CEO

Andrew Pitman

Non-Executive Director

Ambassadors

John McAneney

Russell Blong

Advisory board

Associates

Risk Frontiers has an affiliation with a team of associates with specialist knowledge and experience to draw upon.

Dr Brian Ashe

MD, BASIC Expert UK LLP

basic.expert/brian-ashe

Dr Deanne Bird

Victorian Department of Health

Dr Keping Chen

Independent R&D Scientist

Dr Kevin Cheung

NSW DPIE

Jason Evans

Professor, UNSW

unsw.edu.au/staff/jason-evans

Ian Goodwin

Assoc. Prof., MQU

researchers.mq.edu.au

Dr Chas Keys

Retired

Dr Phil Klotzbach

Research Scientist

iii.org

Dr Christina Magill

Research Scientist, GNS

gns.cri.nz

Dr Matthew Mason

Assoc. Prof., UQ

civil.uq.edu.au

Daryl McClure

CBA

Blair Nicholls

CEO, Clover Insurance

cloverinsure.com.au

Simon Opper

Prof. Roger Pielke, Jr

University of Colorado

sciencepolicy.colorado.edu

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