Mission: we’re working to make disasters less disastrous
Journey
CEO Ahmad Wani survived being marooned during the catastrophic Kashmir flood of 2014 for seven days, wondering whether he would live or die. That was when he decided to dedicate himself to building long-term resilience to natural disasters. While at Stanford University, Ahmad met AI engineer Nicole Hu and earthquake scientist Tim Frank, and together they channeled their collective passion into figuring out how to apply data science and machine learning to some of the greatest challenges our world faces today - natural disasters and climate change.
Leadership
Co-founders
Ahmad Wani
Chief Executive Officer
Nicole Hu
Chief Technology Officer
Timothy Frank
Board Observer
Board of Directors
Ahmad Wani
Chief Executive Officer
Nicole Hu
Chief Technology Officer
Scott Sandell
Managing General Partner at NEA
Judith Rodin
President Emerita, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Leadership Team
William Atkins
Chief Financial Officer
Joe Paluska
Chief Marketing Officer
Ojas Rege
Chief Product Officer
Nicolette Quispe
Chief People Officer
Craig Fugate
Chief Emergency Management Officer
Hitoshi Akimoto
Japan Country Manager
Vince Temperino
VP of Sales
Carl Hedde
Head of Insurance Practice
Accolades
World Economic Forum
Technology Pioneer 2019
Frost & Sullivan
Company of the Year, Disaster Management
Fast Company
World Changing Ideas, AI & Data 2019
Index
Design to Improve Life Finalist 2019
Women in IT Series
Entrepreneur of the Year 2019, Nicole Hu
Partners & Investors
Advisors
General David Petraeus
Chairman, KKR Global Institute
John Roos
Co-founding Partner at Geodesic Capital
Gregory Deierlein
Director, John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University
Steve Howard
Founder, The Climate Group
Garth Saloner
Professor, Former Dean of Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Governor Jack Markell
Former Governor Delaware 2009 -2017
Kiyotaka Fujii
President, Konica Minolta, Global Healthcare Chairman, Ambry Genetics
Byron Dorgan
Senior Policy Advisor, Arent Fox, Former Senator, North Dakota
Masayoshi Nakashima
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
President, International Association for Earthquake Engineering
Alice Hill
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Technical Working Group
Roger Borcherdt
Scientist Emeritus, Earthquake Science Center, United States Geological Survey
Jeremy Bricker
Associate Professor, TU Delft
Gregory Deierlein
Director, John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University
Nobuhito Mori
Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Dr. Y. Joseph Zhang
Research Professor, Virginia Institute of Marine Science