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The Lapham Group Recruits Chief Revenue Officer for One Concern

(Sept. 8, 2021) The Lapham Group has successfully placed Sean Rider as Chief Revenue Officer for resilience-as-a service-solution provider One Concern. Mr. Rider was most recently Executive VP and Head of Client Development for Willis Towers Watson’s risk and analytics business.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Sean to the One Concern team,” said Ahmad Wani, co-founder and CEO of One Concern. “Sean’s established leadership and expertise across strategic risk finance and the alternative risk space will enable us to offer our clients unparalleled value in the resilience space. We’re seeing an increased demand for resilience solutions given that climate change is here and now.” Mr. Rider previously served as executive vice president and head of client development in Willis Towers Watson’s risk and analytics business. In this role, he drove double digit growth and differentiated product proposition in the North American market. Before that, Mr. Rider led business development as part of the strategic management team of HSBC’s global insurance management business.

In his new position, he will lead the scaling and expansion of commercialization of the company’s resilience-as-a-service solutions for climate adaptation, extreme weather and natural disasters.

“I am incredibly excited to join an energetic team committed to building resilience to increasing climate threats and other disasters,” Mr. Rider said. “Today, there’s a disconnect in global markets deriving from a failure to fully understand the underlying vulnerabilities that impede resilience and consequently allow for mispricing of risk.”

“One Concern rather uniquely is building a ‘digital twin’ – for nearly every piece of the built environment – to the physical world that enables a better understanding of physical and transition risk, and ultimately can guide proper mitigation and pricing of that risk through proprietary resilience metrics at an asset level,” said Mr. Rider. “By combining best-in-class research from academia with machine learning, One Concern transforms how the market measures and manages resilience.”

One Concern provides resilience-as-a-service solution to bring disaster science together with machine learning for better decision-making. With operations in the U.S. and Japan, the company quantifies resilience from catastrophic perils, empowering leaders to measure, mitigate and monetize risk. One Concern is part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community.