Matt Coleman is Chief Risk Officer at Demex. He has over 20 years of experience valuing weather risk and building risk transfer businesses. Matt began his career at Citadel where he forecasted and valued weather risk to support its energy trading and reinsurance investments. He also spent more than a decade at Nephila developing and scaling its climate investment business, with responsibilities spanning underwriting, strategic partnerships, and investor relations.

Matt oversees relationships with risk capacity providers that underwrite and sell the financial protection that Demex creates for global institutions. He also leads Demex’s structuring and pricing of weather risk transfer transactions.

Matt graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. Matt also holds an M.S. in Meteorology from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from The University of Virginia Darden School of Business.