Ron Dembo

CEO & Co-Founder at RiskThinking.AI

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Dr. Ron Dembo is renowned in the fields of mathematical algorithms and finance and is a leading authority on financial risk management. His distinguished career spans significant contributions to both sectors, with a strong focus on the intersection of finance and climate change. As a Yale University professor and a visiting scholar at MIT, Dr. Dembo garnered numerous accolades for his work on methods for solving large-scale nonlinear equations. In 2007, he was honoured as a Lifetime Fellow of the Fields Institute of Mathematics, recognizing his contributions to Canadian mathematics.

As an entrepreneur, Dr. Dembo founded and grew Algorithmics Inc., which became the foremost provider of enterprise risk management software to the world's top banks and largest insurers. Algorithmics was acquired by Fitch Ratings and subsequently, IBM Corp. He then established Zerofootprint, a pioneering tech firm dedicated to combating climate change.

Dr. Dembo's latest endeavor, riskthinking.AI, is at the forefront of pricing climate risk in worldwide financial markets. riskthinking.AI developed a ground-breaking climate earth digital twin, which offers unparalleled data and algorithms to assess climate financial risk with precision and scale. Under his leadership, riskthinking.AI is setting new standards in environmental financial analytics.