Dr. Robert T. Reville

Dr. Robert T. Reville is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Praedicat. Until recently, Reville was Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. At RAND, he conceived and led the liability catastrophe R&D project that provided the foundation for Praedicat. From 2002 to 2008, he was the Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, a research center dedicated to improving public policy related to liability, compensation and insurance. He was also founder and co-director of the RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy, a policy research center at RAND which published research on terrorism insurance that was influential in congressional debates over the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. Reville has published extensively on compensation for occupationally disabled workers. He served for two terms on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Reville received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.

Lisa Gallagher

Lisa Gallagher is the Chief Financial and Legal Officer of Praedicat. She was most recently a Senior Director in the Emerging Risk Solutions Group at Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) where she was involved with the liability catastrophe model development and business development. Prior to that, Gallagher was an Associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, a large New York based law firm, where she was a member of the corporate group, focusing primarily on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and public company Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance. From 1999 to 2004, Gallagher was a member of RMS’ Risk & Technology Consulting and Enterprise Risk Management groups, initially conducting analyses using RMS' natural catastrophe models, and then contributing to the development and deployment of RMS' risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) model and terrorism model. She is admitted to the State Bar of California, received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and M.B.A. in Finance from Kellogg School of Management, and received her A.B. in Economics from Princeton University.

Fred Kipperman

Fred Kipperman is the Vice President for Global Client Development of Praedicat. He is responsible for managing Praedicat's sales operations, strategic partnerships, customer service and client retention. He was most recently the Senior Director of Strategic Relationships at RAND's Law, Business and Regulation unit and Associate Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ). Kipperman has contributed as an author to several publications in recent years on topics including arbitration, the Medicare Secondary Payor Act and terrorism insurance and compensation. He currently serves on the State Bar of California's Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) and is a member of the State Bar of Texas as well as the Arizona State Bar. Prior to joining RAND in 2003, Kipperman worked in institutional advancement and development at the University of Arizona, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the University of Southern California. He graduated from the University of Arizona with degrees in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship (1991) and Law (1996).

Dr. Lauren Caston

Dr. Lauren Caston is the Chief Mathematician of Praedicat. He is Praedicat's Director, Metadata Engineering and Risk Models, responsible for the development of methodologies for identifying, prioritizing and modeling emerging risks. Previous to his role at Praedicat, Caston was a Mathematician at the RAND Corporation and was a core member of the research and development team for the liability catastrophe project that formed the foundation for Praedicat. He has also worked on numerous Air Force issues, most recently leading an assessment of the U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force. Caston received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He then studied mathematical supersymmetry at the University of California, Los Angeles where he received his Ph.D. in 2005. From 2005-2006, Caston was the first U.S. citizen to receive an “assengo di ricerca” fellowship from the University of Bologna in Italy. There he continued his study of superschemes and group actions; his book, “Mathematical Foundations of Supersymmetry”, published by the European Mathematical Society, is based on this work.

Dr. Adam Grossman

Dr. Adam Grossman is a Metainformation Scientist with Praedicat. From 2010 to 2012, Grossman was an Analyst in the Emerging Risk Solutions group at RMS where he was a core member of the liability catastrophe research and development team that formed the foundation for Praedicat. He received his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2004, after working in simulations development at Defense R&D Canada. Grossman then went on to earn his M.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) in Bioengineering from Stanford University, where he was also a recipient of a Bio-X Fellowship. His doctoral work centered around modeling physiology and physiological processes at the level of an individual. During this time, Grossman created a novel computer interface for children with severe movement disorders and developed a model of physiology relevant to the intensive care unit of a large hospital, earning him an award at the 2010 American Medical Informatics Summit on Translational Bioinformatics.

Dr. David Loughran

Dr. David Loughran is Chief Economist and Director of Casualty Risk Analytics for Praedicat. Previous to this role, Loughran was Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation, Associate Director of RAND Labor and Population, and Professor of Economics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Over his 12 years at RAND, Loughran served as principal investigator for a diverse portfolio of empirically-driven, policy-relevant research in the areas of insurance, labor markets, demography and energy and was a core member of the research and development team that conceptualized and piloted Praedicat’s proprietary liability risk assessment capabilities. Other research conducted by Loughran in the field of insurance includes a study of the effect of no-fault auto insurance on driving behavior, an award-winning study of the determinants of administrative awards for pain and suffering, and an oft-cited study of the relative risks posed by older drivers. Loughran received a RAND President’s Award for his innovative research on the effects of military deployment and combat injury on labor market outcomes and disability compensation and has received awards for best paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance and Energy Journal. Loughran holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Joseph Prindle

Joseph Prindle is Chief Engineering Officer of Praedicat and is responsible for transforming Praedicat’s analytics into products, software and services. He was previously the interim Chief Technical Officer at GraphTrak, Inc., developing technology based on advanced mathematical algorithms used for information processing and propagation in high dimensional complex systems. From 2006 to 2009, Joseph was the Director of Technology for Cooking.com, where he was responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision and led all aspects of the company’s technology and product development. From 2001 to 2005, he was the Director of Engineering for C X-Stream, designing and developing a complete web based application product suite (SaaS). Joseph shared the Emmy® Award for distinguished Technology and Engineering for work done while an employee of IBM. Joseph is the author of “Einstein’s Tears: A Touch of Genius”. Joseph has a B.S. in Physics from Wayne State University.

Dr. Eric Helland

Dr. Eric Helland is a Senior Advisor of Law and Economics with Praedicat as well as the Robert J. Lowe Professor of economics at Claremont McKenna College and a Senior Economist at RAND's Institute for Civil Justice. He is the author of over 50 books and articles on topics in law and economics ranging from bounty hunters to judicial elections. His current research focuses on pharmaceutical and patent litigation, securities litigation, auto safety and medical malpractice. Helland has recently completed a study of the impact of judicial pay on judicial retention, which is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, and another study on Medicare Secondary Payer Act, which was the subject of Congressional testimony in 2011. In 2002 and 2003 he was a visiting fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 2003 and 2004, Helland served as a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. In 2008, he was a visiting professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles. Helland is currently a visiting scholar at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC. He recently became a co-editor of the International Review of Law and Economics and is also an associate editor of the Journal of Regulatory Economics. Helland holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.

Richard Murray

Richard Murray is a senior advisor at Praedicat. His expertise is the liability exposures of professionals, corporations, financial institutions, and their insurers. Murray is also currently: Chairman of Liability Regime Programs for the Geneva Association; a Member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Audit Oversight Board; Chairman Emeritus of the Center for Capital Market Competitiveness and CEO of Liability Dynamics Consulting. His most recent employments were as Chief Claims Strategist for Swiss Re in Zurich and New York (2002-2009), and as Global Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs of Deloitte (1994-2002). He has also recently served on the US Treasury Committee on the Future of the Audit Profession (2005-2007) and on The Bipartisan Commission for the Capital Markets (2004-2006). He was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He has practiced law in The Twin Cities, was the CEO of The Minet Insurance Group in London and was a Director of The Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne.