Nathaniel Manning is the Director of Business Development and Strategy at Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company from Kenya that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization, and interactive mapping. He is also the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of 9th Sense Robotics. Nathaniel sits on the World Economic Forum’s Personal Data Tiger Team, on Google’s Data Colloquium Team, and on the technical advisory board to The Rules, and is an alumnus of Singularity University.
Prior to this, Nathaniel oversaw Ushahidi, the biggest open-source data platform for disaster management worldwide. Here, he contributed to expanding the Ushahidi platform to more than 200 countries and obtaining more than 10 million first-hand accounts. Prior to that, he served as the first Chief Data Officer of the US Agency for International Development, where he oversaw the opening and analysis of sizable data sets for humanitarian response. He was also a Presidential Innovation Fellow for Open Data. He was a member of the founding teams of FellowAI and BRCK, two IT businesses.
2023
US parametric hurricane reinsurance is now part of Kettle’s expanded offering thanks to a partnership with Reask, a provider of catastrophe modeling, climate analytics, and data using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. Kettle is a deep-learning and artificial intelligence (AI) MGA with a focus on reinsurance.
Given that both Kettle and Reask are sophisticated users of artificial intelligence and other technologies, their pairing is encouraging for the parametric risk transfer market’s future growth. This is because the market is now entering a phase where the success of parametric triggers will depend on the availability of more precise and well-calibrated models.
Kettle will use Reask’s hurricane modelling product Metryc to calculate premiums for coverage and settle pay-outs swiftly and efficiently within 24 hours of an event, the companies said.
