Our Team
Our Leadership Team
Julia Armstrong D’Agnese
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Julia Armstrong D’Agnese is an innovator and change-maker and as Earth Knowledge CEO drives strategic partnerships and big-picture transformational opportunities to help build a more sustainable world. She uses her ability to gain respect of, and constructively challenge, business and organizational leaders, advocating and driving reinvention through technology. Read more
Frank D’Agnese
President/Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder
Dr. Frank D’Agnese focuses his professional efforts on leveraging the internet and cloud computing as tools for empowering cross-functional agility in organizations. This helps them to better access and share information for efficient and effective business decisions. Frank is known for creating and facilitating large, interdisciplinary and multi-organizational teams, developing a common understanding among project participants, and delivering tools that provide knowledge in a context appropriate for business decision-making. Read more
Anthony D. King
Chief Information Officer and Cyber Security Officer
Anthony King, as CISO and as key Earth Knowledge leadership, brings deep experience in scaling technology, people and processes to worldclass success. This includes his wisdom with Earth Knowledge’s system approach, management of our petascale Digital Twin of the Earth, and cyber-security risks, alongside his experience of scaling to multi-billion-dollar company success, and exceptional team and culture building gifts. Read more
Sandra Lueders
Chief People and Culture Officer
Sandra Lueders brings worldclass leadership to Earth Knowledge’s culture and key principles of integrity, respect, mindfulness, accountability, execution, innovation. As a result, and being a culture and science driven company committed to building a sustainable world, Earth Knowledge attracts highly gifted, caring and hardworking people to our team. Read more
Fraser Wyatt
SVP Strategic Industries
Fraser Wyatt serves as SVP Strategic Industries, a role where he is able to utilize his passion for, and extensive expertise in both the science of the Earth, Geology, and providing SaaS solutions to help drive better information and decisions in the financial, government and corporate sectors. Fraser has the rare ability to take theory in driving solutions and scaling customer success and put it into practice building deeply trusted and collaborative customer and partner relationships and growth. Read more
Mark Westergaard
SVP Platform and Business Intelligence
Mark Westergaard is brilliantly talented with our Earth Knowledge Foresight Platform development and Planetary Intelligence SaaS interface, helping to manage our petascale Digital Twin of the Earth, to help our customers make the best decisions to mitigate operational, supply chain and investment risks. Read more
Marianne Braunstein
SVP Product Strategy and Management
Marianne Braunstein brings over 35 years of experience in product management and information technology, with a focus on industries that care for others including healthcare and Earth Science. Her passion for end-users and their experiences with products, as well as insights into new market opportunities, forms the foundation for her strategic product planning, execution and success for Earth Knowledge and for all her past companies. Read more
John Woolf
SVP Operations/Customer Success
John Woolf, PhD , PT, ATC is an entrepreneur, business leader, behavioral and performance specialist with expertise in communications and team success. With roots in healthcare as a physical therapist and athletic trainer, he served as the Director of Medical Service for the University of Arizona's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Read more
Doug Schumman
Chief Operating Officer
Doug Schumann has over 25 years of leadership experience and has been instrumental in helping several companies develop world-class services organizations, operationalizing their processes, and preparing them to scale. While he started his career as a high school history teacher and track coach, he pivoted into business getting his start at Andersen Consulting and Accenture where he was trained in project management, change management, performance, and process improvement. Read more
Cindy Pearlman Tank
VP Finance
Cindy Tank has more than 20 years of experience in senior finance, accounting and administration roles in multi-billion-dollar defense and engineering consulting firms. She has been involved in driving growth and financial performance, planning and forecasting, profitability and improvement, management and reporting, process improvement, and internal controls. Cindy brings financial wisdom, integrity, experience and enthusiasm for scaling Earth Knowledge’s success and global impact. Read more
Earth Knowledge Science Council & Platform – Indicator Development Teams
Donald J. Wuebbles
Director of Climate Science
Dr. Don Wuebbles, as Earth Knowledge’s Director of Climate Science, focuses on bringing world-class science to our Climate Downscaling Scenarios, Digital Twin of the Earth, and Indicators. Don shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Change and is a lead author on numerous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. He also served as assistant director, Office of Science & Technology, Executive Office of the President 2014-2016. Read more
Lorraine Flint
Co-Director of Earth Systems Modeling
Dr. Lorraine Flint shares in development of Earth Knowledge’s Petascale Digital Twin of the Earth. Earth Knowledge’s System of Systems approach integrates multi-dimensional models integrated to provide the most comprehensive view of risks and opportunities across the globe. Read more
Bryan Turner
Senior Geoscientist
Dr. Bryan Turner is one of Earth Knowledge’s key experts on the planet’s subsurface. He helps guide our models and predictive analytics, incorporating information from the subsurface to atmospheric level. A brilliant integrated Earth systems thinker, Bryan is also instrumental in the development of our EK Indicators and the calculations of measurements. Read more
Jessica Tréanton
Earth Systems Scientist - Data and Analytics
Jessica Tréanton comes to Earth Knowledge as a talented geologist and Earth Systems thinker with a strong research and scientific background. Her applied science approach has been instrumental in advancing our product development. Read more
Mary C. Hill
Model Evaluation, Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis
Dr. Mary Hill, a Princeton-trained hydrologist, is one of the leading global experts in uncertainty analysis. She was with the US Geological Survey (USGS) from 1981-2014 and was promoted to the rank of GS-ST, the highest level possible for government scientists and only the second woman to reach that level in the US Department of Interior. Read more
Anne Stoner
Principal, Earth Systems Modeling Analyst
Dr. Anne Stoner shares in development of Earth Knowledge’s Petascale+ Digital Twin of the Earth. Earth Knowledge’s Earth System of Systems approach incorporates multi-dimensional models to provide the most comprehensive view of risks and opportunities across the globe. Read more
William C. Steinkampf
Director of Science Coordination
William Steinkampf oversees key coordination for our Earth Knowledge Science Network and Partnerships. Bill has over 30 years of experience in the design, implementation, and supervision of multidisciplinary programs. He works closely with businesses, NGOs, and many levels of government to address natural resource sustainability issues of regional, national or international concern. Read more
Hugh Smith
Senior Process Engineering
Hugh Smith is a multi-skilled engineer with over 30 years of management, hardware and software experience. He has managed multi-million-dollar projects for development with extensive experience creating software architecture. Most recently, Hugh was a senior principal software engineer with Test Systems Design Center at Raytheon Missile Systems. Read more
Kenneth Kunkel
Climate Data Advisor
Dr. Kunkel is an internationally renowned Atmospheric Scientist and leader on multiple U.S. National Climate Assessments. He has spent more than 40 years performing wide-ranging and internationally recognized research on climate variability and change, particularly related to extreme weather and climate events. Read more
Stephen Polasky
Director of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services and Economics
Dr. Stephen Polasky, is Earth Knowledge’s Director of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Economics, and provides leadership related to Natural Capital Metrics and Indicators. Steve is a globally recognized leader in quantifying the economic value of natural capital and ecosystem services. Read more
Alan Flint
Co-Director of Earth Systems Modeling
Dr. Alan Flint shares in development of Earth Knowledge’s Petascale+ Digital Twin of the Earth. Earth Knowledge’s Earth System of Systems approach integrates multi-dimensional models to provide the most comprehensive view of risks and opportunities across the globe. Read more
Steven Franchi
Principal, Enterprise Software Engineering
Steven Franchi has over 30 years of experience in software development, hardware design, testing and integration. Bring an idea to Steven that has never been done and that people say can’t be done, and he’ll do it. As Earth Knowledge breaks into innovative terrain for the financial services and corporate sectors, building our Petascale Digital Twin of the Earth, Steven is devoted to building the most powerful tools to drive a green economy. Read more
Daniel Franchi
Enterprise Software Engineering
Daniel Franchi offers over 11 years of experience in software development, systems integration, and data management. Daniel is an “out of the box” thinker who provides creative solutions while helping build our Petascale Digital Twin of the Earth. Read more
Business Advisors
Barry J. Glick
Lead Business Advisor
Barry Glick is an experienced and successful tech entrepreneur, executive and Internet mapping pioneer. As co-founder of Mapquest and leader of multiple successful ventures, he has been at the forefront of emerging digital technologies that have changed the way people and companies use maps, navigate, search for places, analyze data, and efficiently plan and execute. Read more
John Andersen
Business Advisor
John Andersen is a key Business Advisor related to Earth Knowledge’s corporate business development with a special focus on Chicago and the US Midwest Region. John is President and Founder of Greenleaf Advisors and helped Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), as International Director, scale from their earlier days with 200 people to IPO with 40,000 people. John brings to Earth Knowledge his mission-driven alignment, outstanding business success and Harvard-based education and networks. Read more
Richard Peers
Sustainable Finance
Richard Peers is a highly regarded leader of strategy, marketing, sales and technology evangelism in the financial services and software industry. He is the founder of ResponsibleRisk, driving improvements in sustainable finance adoption and outcomes, via better understanding, data and solutions. Read more
Gail Sturm
Business Advisor
Angelica (Gail) Sturm comes to Earth Knowledge not only as a highly accomplished Chicago business leader, but also a highly successful leader devoted to saving our Planet, working with Robert and Sibylle Szaggars Redford as Chairman of Way of the Rain and also Chairman of the Board for Chicago’s Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods. Read more
Bob Litterman
Climate and Nature Financial Risk Advisor
Bob Litterman is on the Earth Knowledge Advisory Board providing advise related to Earth Knowledge’s Platform and Indicators which inform Nature, Climate, Environmental Risks and Opportunities for corporations and financial institutions.
He is a founding partner of Kepos Capital and the Chairman of its Risk Committee. Prior to founding Kepos Capital in 2010, he enjoyed a 23-year career at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he served in research, risk management, investment, and thought leadership roles. He researched and published groundbreaking papers in asset allocation and risk management during his tenure at Goldman Sachs. Read more
William Sturm
Business Advisor
Bill comes to Earth Knowledge with an outstanding track record for decades of leading innovate paradigm shifts to true sustainability in architecture and design. His award-winning work is highly sought after as is his thought leadership in bringing transformational shifts to his and other’s planning and design. He is passionate about building a restorative world, in vision and in practice, and is another outstanding addition to our Earth Knowledge Advisory Board. Read more
