Chief Product Officer, Climate Engine
2022 - 2024 (acquired in 2025)
I joined Climate Engine at its infancy to lead the productization and go-to-market of the company. As Chief Product Officer in a bootstrapped start-up, I held many roles and responsibilities, including product management, product delivery, partner management, business development, and customer relationship management.
Below highlights to product solution and clientele that used SpatiaFi:
Solution of the Year for Sustainability
SpatiaFi connects the environment with the economy to support regulatory reporting, risk management, and sustainable finance investments.
In partnership with Google Cloud, the company and product achieved notable success with clients and accolades, globally. In doing so, we enabled organizations around the world to accelerate strategies to incorporate climate and nature data.
How SpatiaFi works
Search
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Analyze
SpatiaFi contains 250+ million business locations with key economic attributes.
Analyze
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Analyze
SpatiaFi then merges climate, extreme event, biodiversity and water data with business locations.
Extract
Automate
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Clients order data by company, geography, industry, financial exchange or other groupings.
Automate
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Insights are then converted into tables and delivered as automated data feeds and applications.
Portfolio of Customers
Led the integration and product delivery of Climate Engine data into Dun & Bradstreet to help power the 2023 launch of the D&B Climate Risk Insights product.
SC Johnson's OFFNowCast! was launched in 2022 to forecast the severity of mosquitos. Powered by my former product, SpatiaFi, this tool serves USA, Canada, and has been used in Africa.
Led a joint project between Climate Engine, Google, and the Bank of Canada to explore the economic impact to GDP based on the effects of short-term and long-term drought conditions.
The BMO Climate Institute utilized SpatiaFi to apply scientific analytics to better understand risks and opportunities of a changing climate and the transition.
In collaboration with Google Cloud and Deloitte, SpatiaFi was used by NatWest to build a UK wide geospatial database of agricultural fields to identify opportunities for sustainable loans.
Unveiled at the 2022 Global AI Summit, SDAIA and MEWA, in collaboration with Google Cloud and Climate Engine, launched the first sustainability research center in the Middle East.
Led the business development for Climate Engine to secure Robeco as a customer and partner to collaborate on thought leadership for the application geospatial data for nature insights.
Working closely with CN's innovation group and Google, I led the product delivery of a real-time fire risk monitoring platform for managing rail infrastructure and supply chain risks.
SpatiaFi enabled the South Florida Management District to identify harmful algal blooms and analyze water quality to inform water management decisions across the district.
Publications
Earth Finance Acquires Spatial Finance Platform
Dun & Bradstreet
NatWest Group
Google Cloud
Bank of Montreal
Gulf Business - Global AI Summit
SC Johnson