Insuring weather risks
Wx Risk Global is a global weather risk solutions company that provides weather and natural peril risk mitigation products and services to individuals, organizations, cities, and nations world-wide, that are the potential victims of increasingly frequent climate-related disasters.
Weather risk solutions provide capital resources after an extreme weather-related event and typical applications include agriculture, green energy, budget defence and catastrophe protection.
In addition, the company operates an Impact Investing service which aims to offer investors the opportunity to strike a balance between financial returns and social good. Typical investment areas include water resources management, sustainable energy, pollution prevention & waste management, and health improvement.
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Rebecca Leonardi
Managing Partner, Wx Risk Global
Rebecca Leonardi is one of the original founders and partners of Wx Risk Global, an international weather risk solutions company that provides risk transfer products and services to individuals, organizations, cities and nations worldwide.
Rebecca has years of experience in entrepreneurial partnerships over multiple business types as well as various board positions with non-profit foundations. As Principle, Rebecca is responsible for managing the business relationships between the corporate client base, the OTC derivative counter parties, and their various finance-related business partners. Rebecca also manages the company’s weather-related investment fund, Weather Logix, LP. The Fund executes a market neutral strategy designed to capitalize on the pricing inefficiencies within the over-the-counter weather derivatives market when significantly anomalous weather patterns are detected.
