Robert Holmes, president of Spectrum Weather and Specialty Insurance, returns to The Snow Magazine Podcast to discuss the importance of knowing your true numbers when it comes to snowfall totals, and how this directly impacts the bottom line.
A frequent Snow Magazine contributor, Robert Holmes began his career as a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center, studying the weather of Antarctica. During his time there, he earned awards from the National Science Foundation and the US Navy and, in 1999, had an Antarctic geographical feature, Holmes Ridge, named in his honor by the United States Geological Survey.
After 10 years, Holmes left academia and joined a hedge-fund-owned weather derivatives trading business. In 2008, he created a weather insurance agency designed to facilitate the sale of weather-based policies. Three years later, he founded his own brokerage, Spectrum Weather and Specialty Insurance.
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