Karen Clark & Company
Karen Clark & Company was founded in 2007 by two pioneers in the catastrophe risk management space—Karen Clark and Vivek Basrur. Ms. Clark developed the first catastrophe model and founded the first catastrophe modeling company, AIR Worldwide—which she ultimately sold to Insurance Services Office. Mr. Basrur architected and led the development of the major AIR software applications.
An Impressive Team of Scientists, Engineers, Data Analysts, and Technologists
Catastrophe modeling is a highly specialized industry requiring experts from many fields, including meteorology, seismology, structural engineering, and software engineering. What sets the KCC team apart is a passion for excellence and delivering the most accurate and timely information possible. KCC experts build the most advanced models and software applications through a highly collaborative team environment in one of the most dynamic cities in the world.
Innovating the Quantification and Management of Risk
KCC models are proven to be the most accurate and up to date with respect to current scientific knowledge on extreme events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and floods. The KCC team continually advanced the science through innovative applications like KCC LiveEvents™, Characteristic Events, and WindfieldBuilder®. KCC Models capture hundreds of property characteristics so that the impacts of mitigation activities can be readily assessed and incorporated.
Tackling the World's Most Challenging Problems
Climate change is the most important issue of our time, and the costs and societal impacts of natural disasters continue to rise. KCC models incorporate the effects of climate change to provide current and future projections of likely impacts on weather-related events for multiple time periods and scenarios. KCC models are forward thinking and therefore avoid the frequent "model misses" of other catastrophe models.
History
KCC was founded by two pioneers and innovators in the catastrophe modeling industry—Karen Clark and Vivek Basrur.
Karen Clark created the first catastrophe model and founded the first catastrophe modeling company in 1987. Ms. Clark has been leading innovation in this industry since that time, and she has been well recognized for her leadership and contributions, including being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize certificate in 2007 for her contributions to work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Vivek Basrur created the first data standards and web-based applications for the catastrophe modeling industry in the mid-1990s. Mr. Basrur has been instrumental in the evolution and advancement of catastrophe modeling software applications since that time.
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