Meet The Team

 Building one of the world’s fastest growing Insurtechs takes great technology, experienced investors, and most importantly, a world-class team of people committed to making big things happen.

 Our people are rockstars and it’s a privilege to be able to call them colleagues.

 

Rich Counsell CEO & Founder

Growing up on a farm meant Rich experienced the problem of volatile commodity prices first hand. A career in trading and technology took him to Chicago, where he was struck by the lack of innovation and purpose in the commodity industry. This inspired him to build a diverse, and talented team that could reimagine risk management and make hedging simple for millions of businesses around the world. 

If you’re looking for a career in a fast-growth fintech with a purpose, then we’d love to hear from you

Dr Simon Wang

Dr Simon Wang

Chief Data Officer

After completing his PhD, Simon joined the Trading team as our CDO. Based in London, Simon manages the team made up of data scientists and commodity analysts in London, New York and Singapore.

Julia Henderson

Julia Henderson

President and Head of Portfolio Management

Julia is based in our Bermuda office after senior roles at Peak Re (CUO), Renaissance Re, and PartnerRe. She has an MBA from Wharton and is responsible for Risk Capital & Portfolio in the Trading Team. She also has the best office view in the entire company!

John Stotts

John Stotts

Chief Investment Officer

Previously an MD of Nasdaq and several Chicago based commodity funds including Belvedere, Infinium and Allston. John runs our Delta hedging function in the Trading Team in Chicago. We’re thrilled to have him on the team.

Connor Noonan

Connor Noonan

VP Product

Connor joined Stable from Charles Schwab where he was a Director of Trading Product after having previously traded agricultural commodities at Infinium and Geneva Trading.  Based in Austin, Connor leads our rapidly growing Product team brilliantly.

Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan

VP Partnerships

  Jim spent over 10 years at CME in Chicago as Director of R&D. He now works with Stable’s content, index and data partners, as well as our referral scheme to grow the platform and our relationships in the industry as part of the GTM team.

Chris Roeder

Chris Roeder

VP Sales

Previously a Director of Cargill Risk Management, Chris now leads our US sales team, which stretches across the protein, dairy, specialty grains, and energy teams. Based in Austin, he’s at the heart of our current work to rollout Stable across the US.

Louise Derbes

Louise Derbes

VP Sales

Louise was responsible for commodity derivative sales at Rabobank for over 20 years before joining Stable. She has an MBA from INSEAD, speaks 3 languages and helps clients across the Americas to manage their commodity risk. We haven’t found anything she can’t do yet!

Tony Ness

Tony Ness

Sales Director Protein

After a stellar career at Cargill & Atlantic, Tony joined our team in Minneapolis to focus on protein, eggs and poultry.

Tony is at the heart of our rapid growth and unmatched when it comes to rapidly eating chicken wings.

Joe Kobel

Joe Kobel

Sales Director Dairy

One of the leading experts in the global dairy markets, Joe is based in NYC and joined Stable after senior roles at Starbucks, Rabobank & RJO Futures. At the head of one of our biggest markets, Joe is the man to call if you have price risk in the dairy sector.

William Ormerod

William Ormerod

VP Underwriting

Will joined Stable from Louis Dreyfus in Geneva and leads our Underwriting team in Bermuda. He works tirelessly behind the scenes with our sales team to help clients, structure deals and manage our risk. He’s also a pretty handy sailor!

Dr Victor Wang

Dr Victor Wang

VP R&D

Victor leads our R&D team after securing a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Oxford University and worked on the Quant team at CME. Victor is a key member of the Trading team and its leading edge hedging strategies.

Julie Dewandre

Julie Dewandre

VP Sustainability

Julie leads Stable’s work in sustainability and how price risk management can help the income of people and businesses in developing countries. She’s also studying for a PhD from the University of London (SOAS) and manages the Stable Charitable Foundation.

Rachel Qian

Rachel Qian

VP Data Science

With a MSc in Computational Finance from Oxford University, Rachel is a super star in our Trading team. Based in London she runs our data science team, supporting Simon with many aspects of the algorithms.

Joe Brooker

Joe Brooker

VP Research

Previously at S& P Global and ED&F Man, Joe leads our research team looking at fundamental data, index grading and content creation. With a specialism in opaque markets, Joe is at the heart of our ability to operate in untraded markets globally.

Patrick Tear

Patrick Tear

Junior Underwriter

After gaining a MSc in Finance from Edinburgh University, Patrick joined Stable’s Underwriting team and works with Will to support the sales team structuring deals. A rising star at Stable, Patrick is based in London.

Ethan Soh

Ethan Soh

Data Scientist

Ethan is based in Singapore and works on the trading team. He has a degree from LSE and a MSc in Quantitative Finance from the University of Singapore. Ethan is a key part of the pricing and data team.

Taylor Coughlin

Taylor Coughlin

Customer Success Manager

Taylor joined Stable from McDonalds where he managed their financial risk across multiple commodities. He has a degree in Finance from Marquette and helps our corporate clients make the most of the Stable solution from our Chicago office.

Claudia Zhu

Claudia Zhu

Data Scientist

After securing her MSc in Financial Engineering from NYU, Claudia joined Stable from GRMA in 2021 as a Data Scientist. An outstanding mathematician, she now works on the data science team to manage the portfolio and price the risks.

Harry Palmer

Harry Palmer

Content Manager

With an MA in International Business from Edinburgh, Harry is well placed to manage our international partners and the indexes, data and content. Harry is a key part of the research team and is friends with most people working at the USDA!

Yuchen Pei

Yuchen Pei

Data Scientist

Yuchen first joined Stable on our internship program and after securing a MSc in Astrophysics from Cambridge University he joined our R&D department and now works with Victor on the Trading team. 

Michael Nepveux

Michael Nepveux

Senior Analyst

Based in Washington, Michael joined Stable from American Farm Bureau where he was the lead economist for protein and dairy markets. Working closely with the team in Chicago and London, he’s a key part in our understanding of the market data in those sectors.

Paola Luporini

Paola Luporini

Senior Analyst

Paola arrived at Stable in 2021 and instantly made a big impression after gaining experience at Platts, Italpreziosi and Raizen in Sao Paulo. A key part of the research team, Paola works with our commodity analysts globally.

Dr Rui Hao

Dr Rui Hao

Data Scientist

The superstar Rui arrived at Stable after achieving a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University. She now runs our data team, ingesting, managing and processing extraordinary amounts of data from our analysts. 

Allison Pan

Allison Pan

Data Scientist

 Another outstanding data scientist, Allison joined Stable after gaining her MSc in Pure Mathematics from Cambridge University. Allison is at the heart of our trading team and runs the pricing process for clients around the world.

Sam Horsfield

Sam Horsfield

Junior Analyst

 Sam joined Stable in 2021 after working at Tesco as a Commodity Analyst. With a MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University, Sam joined our trading team and works with Paola and our global commodity analysts.

Sam Scrutton

Sam Scrutton

Senior Front end Developer

One of our earliest employees, Sam is always at the centre of anything good that comes from our product team. A rockstar front end developer and the ultimate team player, we’re fortunate to call him a colleague.

Gaby Keeton

Gaby Keeton

EA

Previously Gaby managed famous players at NYC Football Club before joining Stable as an Executive Assistant for the senior team. Gaby is the first person that welcomes you to Stable and is always on hand to help the team make things happen.

Sonia Garnier

Sonia Garnier

Partnership Director France

Sonia joined Stable from Cargill in France. She is now responsible for building our partnerships across France so users can better understand their risk. Based in Nantes we’re thrilled to have Sonia on our European team.

Denise Deng

Denise Deng

Junior Data Scientist

After securing her math degree from UCL,  Denise worked at Ipsos as a data analyst before joining Stable as a junior data scientist working in our Trading team. Going to play a big role on the team as we grow. 

Adam Tucker

Adam Tucker

Junior Developer

Adam joined Stable as a junior developer and works on the platform as part of our Austin based engineering team. The platform work he and the team have developed is world class.

Edward Angeles

Edward Angeles

Junior Developer

Edward joined Stable’s product team as a junior developer and is based in beautiful Lisbon where he works on the client facing platform elements. When not eating Pastéis de Nata, he finds time to make the Stable platform beautiful.

Jean Baptiste Plasmans

Jean Baptiste Plasmans

Partnership Director, Benelux

Based in Amsterdam, JB joined Stable in 2020 to work with content and data partners in Benelux to help clients understand the risk they face.

Gillian Gipson

Gillian Gipson

Compliance Manager

 Gill leads our compliance team from our office in Hamilton, Bermuda.

A key part of the trading team, she overseas all the trades, policies, reporting and client KYC globally. We’d be lost without her.

Barbara Tapsell

Barbara Tapsell

Finance Manager

After moving to the UK in 2021 from South Africa, Barbara joined our Operations team as our finance manager, overseeing payroll and management accounts for the US and European entities.

Fahd Abdellaoui

Fahd Abdellaoui

Junior Designer

 Fahd joined Stable in 2021 after 3 years working at Upwork on UI/UX. Working closely with Connor in Austin he makes sure ease of use is at the top of our mind when it comes to the platform.