Dag Lohmann, CEO, Co-founder.  Before co-founding the risk modeling company KatRisk LLC, Dag was a Vice President of Model Development at Risk Management Solutions in Newark, CA leading a team of modelers and software engineers in building and implementing catastrophe models. He worked for 7.5 years on the development of continental scale flood risk models in RMS and RMS' Next Generation risk modeling methodology. From 1999 to 2004 he was with the National Weather Service, NOAA/NCEP/EMC in Camp Springs, MD, where his main interest was data assimilation with real-time data, forecasting and hydrological modeling. He received a Physics Diploma (Masters) from the Georg-August University in Goettingen (Germany) and a Ph.D. from Hamburg University (Germany) before working for 2 years as a postdoc at Princeton University. He received the 1999 Tison Award of the IAHS and has published numerous papers on risk modeling, hydrological modeling, model uncertainty, forecasting, data assimilation, and climate change.

Guy Morrow, Co-founder.  Guy has more than 25 years of experience in the development of models used to estimate financial losses due to natural catastrophes including earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes/hail. He is a former Senior Vice President in charge of Model Development at Risk Management Solutions. Before RMS he was an Associate Principal in a consulting engineering firm and is a registered Civil and Structural engineer in the state of California.  He has a BSCE from the University of Illinois, a MSE from the University of California, Berkeley, and a MSBA from Boston University.

Swami Krishnamoorthy, CTO, CIO, CISO. Swami brings over 25 years of technical leadership experience in software and platform development. Throughout his career, he has excelled in developing and delivering enterprise applications and solutions across Distributed and Mobile platforms, specifically within the Mortgage, Catastrophic Modeling, and Banking sectors.

Prior to his tenure at KatRisk, Swami held the position of Staff Software Engineer at EllieMae, where he played a key role in the creation of SAAS applications for Mortgage Process Automation. His background also includes seven years as Director of Model Development at RMS, where he contributed significantly to the design and implementation of risk models within RMS and RMS' Next Generation platform. Notably, he served as the Computer Standards Expert Certification Signatory for the 2009 to 2013 RMS Model Standards of the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology.

Swami's academic achievements include a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Bharathidasan University (India), a Master's degree in Computer Applications from the University of Madras (India), and an Executive MBA from the University of Northern Alabama.

Brandon Katz, Executive Vice President Model Solutions. Brandon is a seasoned model developer and client relations expert with a wealth of previous experience building and contributing to catastrophe models ranging from flood to terrorism. Previous to KatRisk, Brandon started out as a climate scientist within the Pennsylvania State University’s Atmospheric Physics Master’s Program where he spent his time working on multidisciplinary projects within meteorology, geology, oceanography, and radio wave propagation. After university, he spent 5 years working for Risk Management Solutions (RMS) within the model development department where he materially contributed to the China typhoon flood model, the North American hurricane model, the inland European/US Flood models, and the exposure database/products development team.  Upon leaving RMS, Brandon then spent 3 years working for the reinsurance brokerage arm of Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT Re) where he lead the research and development team in all of its flood related projects with additional attention paid to creating roadmaps and assisting with the general management and direction of the group.  During his tenure at JLT Re, Brandon conceptualized, executed, documented, and marketed all released products, forging deep relationships with many clients.  Brandon brings with him to KatRisk a deep understanding of full process model development, strong client relationship skills, and an innovative spirit with respect to risk management and mitigation strategies.

Jan Holtkamp, Co-Manging Director KatRisk Germany, Data Analyst and Flood Modeler.  Before joining KatRisk Germany, Jan worked for 6 years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems as an Research Engineer where he worked on the development of methods to measure the material quality of solar grade silicon. He has a Master's in Hydrology from the University of Freiburg, Germany. In his Thesis he designed a physically based model to explain changes in the isotopic composition of the precipitation in Germany.

Jonathan Baenziger, Co-Managing Director KatRisk Germany, Data Analyst and Flood Modeler. Jonathan has a Master's in Earth Surface and Water from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. During his Masters he followed the track Geohazards and Earth Observation and focused mainly on hydrological modelling and remote sensing. In his thesis he investigated the effect of river network parameterization on large-scale flood modelling in the Amazon Basin. During a traineeship at the Joint Research Center from the European Commission, he developed and assessed the underlying hydrological model of the European Flood Awareness System at a higher spatial resolution.

Justin Schulte, Director of Climate Statistics. Justin is an atmospheric scientist with experience in applied statistics, seasonal forecasting, and climate science. Prior to joining KatRisk, Justin was a Research Scientist at Science Systems and Applications, INC (SSAI) where he developed new statistical algorithms to improve the prediction of the Indian Summer Monsoon. Before SSAI, he completed his postdoctoral work at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a postdoctoral scholar, he proposed a new phase-aware ensemble forecasting methodology that improved storm surge forecasts produced from New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System Model. He also led research projects whose research goals were to improve long-range air temperature, water temperature, and precipitation forecasts across the United States. Justin received his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology from The Pennsylvania State University. His dissertation focused on improving streamflow and estuarine salinity forecasts through the development of new mathematical and statistical methods.

Shahrbanou Madadgar, Principal Climate Risk Modeler. Shahrbanou has 9+ years of experience in statistical hydrology, climatology, and risk analysis. She has published several papers in climate-related catastrophes (e.g. wildfire, droughts), probabilistic forecast modeling, and climate change impacts. Before joining KatRisk, she was a Sr. Analyst of Model Development at RMS. As a Postdoc at the University of California, Irvine, Shahrbanou worked on catastrophe risk modeling as well as the hybrid statistical-dynamical prediction of precipitation over the Southwest US with the contribution of SST patterns. She got her PhD from Portland State University, the topic of her thesis was on improving the spatio-temporal forecast of drought events by application of probabilistic models.

Kaia Gordon, Senior Model Developer. Before joining KatRisk, Kaia worked as a technology consultant with Accenture, SAP, and a Denver boutique software consulting firm, implementing  medium- to large-scale technology solutions across various industries. She has also served as a product manager for a ski-industry ecommerce software company where she managed product requirements and coordinated with internal and external teams to test and deliver software releases for new customers and upgrades. She has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley.

Shuo Yan, Senior Flood Risk Modeler. Shuo joined KatRisk in 2019 after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering. As a member of the flood model solutions team. Shuo’s responsibilities include flood model development, data preparation, and probabilistic risk assessment. Shuo's interests and skills focus on the modeling of hydrologic processes, contaminant transport, and catastrophe losses from natural hazards. He recently published a journal paper on his graduate research for improving the numerical algorithm and simulation performance of a widely-used groundwater solute transport simulator.

Nicholas Morrow, Senior Model Developer. Prior to joining KatRisk, Nick worked as a trainer for Apple Maps via Apex, training new editors in their spatial data software and interfacing with multiple teams performing continual mapping updates. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Sustainable Environmental Design.

Jonathan Labriola, Risk Modeler. Jonathan works on KatRisk stochastic tornado model using his meteorological and statistical skills obtained from his postdoctoral and graduate work. Before joining KatRisk, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Severe Storms Laboratory where he worked on data assimilation and ensemble forecast uncertainty, among other things. Prior to his post-doctoral work, he was a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma.

Vasudevan Venugopal, Software Engineer. Vasu has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from San Francisco State University. Before joining KatRisk, he had an interest in full stack development, working mainly on the front-end side but also contributing to the server side of Mesekai, a 3D pose-detection application utilizing the Google Mediapipe engine and Three.js to allow users to create and control virtual avatars, with the web framework and server built using NextJS.

Cybele MacHardy, Administrator.  Joining the KatRisk team, Cybele will oversee the office, website and billing. She is an excellent motivator and will be helping keep everyone on schedule.  Before joining KatRisk, Cybele worked with Oakland Unified Schools as an intervention and ELA teacher for 5 years. Prior to teaching, Cybele worked as an Editor/Producer at CNN, collaborating with on-air reporters and producers to output news content for CNN’s air. She graduated from Seattle University with a double major in Humanities and Broadcast Journalism.

Stefan Eppert, Consultant.  Stefan co-founded KatRisk in 2012 and previously worked for 6.5 years at Risk Management Solutions on the development of continental flood risk models, model implementation and simulation methodologies. He has a Master's in Hydrology from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Stefan is an avid technologist who is comfortable in multiple programming languages and their application to large scale computational problems.