Get To Know Us
We started as a partnership between commercial and academic entrepreneurs who believe both universes should work together to cut through agendas, define issues, and seek innovative solutions to global challenges.
We will continue to build a network of like-minded Universities and businesses around the world focused on risk management and saving lives.
Our Founders
Our strength lies in our breadth of our experiences, open minds, creativity and dogmatic objectivity.
Learning from the past, we seek new ways to solve problems leveraging the best of modern technology and thought.
John Black, Sr. CPCU
Founder / ExecuTive Director
CEO, Base Consulting LLC
Professor Annette Hofmann PH.D.
Founder / Co-Chairperson
Great American Insurance Group Chairholder, Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati
Academic Director, Lindner Center for Insurance and Risk Management
Editor-in-Chief, Risk Management & Insurance Review
Professor Chris Gassman
Founder / Co-Chairperson
Executive Director, University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business
Director - Footprints to Wings (zero carbon accelerator)
Member - Net Impact (Renewable energy projects, valuation)
