Helen Brown, CEO
Helen leads Safinea’s strategy. She is an applied mathematician specialising in how models of complex systemic risk are built, evaluated and used, and in what their uncertainty means for the decisions that follow.
She led the modelling function at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control through the COVID-19 pandemic before moving to the European Commission in Brussels. She served as a technical expert to the President’s scientific advisory platform, advising Commissioners and the Secretariat-General.
Her methodological work, developed over a decade at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), covers Gaussian-process emulation and Bayesian calibration of agent-based models.
At Safinea she leads work on compound and cascading risk across disease, catastrophe and climate, speaking and writing on the topic regularly.
Rok Grah, CTO
Rok owns Safinea’s modelling and technical direction. He holds a PhD in mathematical modelling and data science and has spent over a decade quantifying risk and uncertainty, using probabilistic and statistical modelling, machine learning and scenario analysis.
At the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control he led the European Forecasting and Scenario Hubs, combining forecasts from independent models into ensembles and scoring how each one performed — the discipline behind Safinea’s validation work.
At the Stockholm Environment Institute he published on consumption-based carbon footprints and the distributional effects of low-carbon transition. That experience of carbon accounting at fine spatial resolution now feeds Safinea’s forestry platform, where he leads the modelling that turns satellite, public and drone data into estimates of forest growth, disturbance and hazard.
He is consulted by the European Commission, UN agencies (WHO, UNICEF, UNOOSA) and national expert advisory groups.
Amanda Evans, CCO
Amanda leads Safinea’s commercial strategy and client relationships. She was chief executive of POC, the Swedish helmet and protection brand, which she grew and led through to its acquisition, and chief operating officer of a venture-backed software company operating across eight countries. Earlier she ran Eurosport’s Nordic business, with teams in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki.
Her work in trade finance technology has established her reputation with global banks and corporates.
She mentors early-stage companies through the Stockholm Techstars accelerator and has served on multiple company boards.