Jake Weber is Partner and Head of Analytics at Elementum Advisors, LLC. Jake is responsible for Elementum’s view of risk, leading the firm’s research on how to best quantify the impact of hurricanes, earthquakes, and other perils on catastrophe bonds and collateralized reinsurance investments. He also leads Elementum’s work on how climate change affects the way catastrophe risk is modeled. Prior to the founding of Elementum, Jake was a member of the reinsurance and risk-linked investments team at Stark Investments. He started his career at Aon in 1999, working in catastrophe modeling, catastrophe bond securitization, and catastrophe bond trading. Jake holds an MBA in Finance and Econometrics from the University of Chicago, a Diploma in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois.