What’s your weather?
We’re a team of seasoned risk advisors leveraging advanced technology and rich data to manage climate-driven financial volatility. With increasingly variable weather conditions, we offer businesses the ability to manage risk and create opportunity.
Partner with us to protect
and grow your business.
Climate resilience for your bottom line.
We’ve brought together decades of experience across tech, risk management, capital markets, commodities, insurance, climate science, financial management and energy to develop cutting-edge technology and customized solutions for your localized challenges.
Solutions Center
The Demex Solutions Center is our proprietary technology and the foundation of the climate resilience we provide. It powers the complex data analysis required to solve your specific challenges.
Our customers use this unique platform to receive tailored recommendations and can also license the Solutions Center to build their own applications and innovate beyond our products.
Customized Solutions
Too much snow or rain? Not enough? No problem. We recognize that unprofitable weather comes in a variety of forms.
Whether it’s through our innovative flagship products, Budget Defender and Precision Markets, or our new approach to weather-related marketing, One Perfect Day, with us your business will have a good forecast.
Work with us and see all the ways our technology can help you.
Nice to meet you. We’re Demex.
We have decades of diverse experience. Together as The Demex Group, we leverage all we know to deliver top-notch solutions that truly meet your needs.
Ed Byrns, Ph.D.
President and CEO
The Demex Group
Ed is the founder and mastermind of The Demex Group. He has spent more than 20 years working in commodity and weather markets and holds a PhD in Engineering and a MS in Economics. Before Demex, Ed served for seven years as Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Munich Re Trading.
Stephen Bennett, J.D.
Chief Product Officer
The Demex Group
Steve is a weatherman-turned-entrepreneur whose 25-year career includes working for The Weather Channel and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as founding EarthRisk Technologies. Steve’s mission is to bridge the gap between climate volatility and business operations.
Ken Konecki
Chief Technology Officer
The Demex Group
Ken is a technologist who draws on 30 years of experience in finance to lead our team of software engineers. He architects the Demex Solutions Center and builds innovative products at scale. Previously, he spent several decades in FinTech working at Citadel Investment Group.
Kevin Paley
Managing Director
Demex Markets
Kevin is a risk specialist who is one half of the founding vision behind Demex Markets. For 20 years Kevin has translated complex data into groundbreaking insights. He leads channel development as well as broker and customer partnerships. Previously, Kevin worked in a variety of commodity trading roles, most recently as the Global Head of Commodities at the Royal Bank of Canada.
Chuck Whitlock
Managing Director
Demex Markets
Chuck is a strategist who leads core initiatives across all market verticals and is the other half of the founding vision behind Demex Markets. Chuck’s 25-year career spans operations, energy trading and risk management, strategy execution and business incubation.
Bruce Garner
Chief Revenue Officer
The Demex Group
Bruce leads sales and is focused on initiatives to identify practical client solutions. Bruce has 30 years of experience working in global financial institutions from London to Singapore, with a focus on commodity markets.
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What’s in a name?
Demex is short for data empowered parametrix. Parametric is a mathematical term for any group of equations. Parametrix refers to a fundamental solution. That “x” marks the spot—your unique solution, by Demex.
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