Eric Spear Named Chief Technology Officer for Verisk Extreme Event Solutions

August 11, 2025 / 2 min read

Verisk, (Nasdaq: VRSK) a leading global data analytics and technology provider, has named Eric Spear chief technology officer for Verisk’s Extreme Event Solutions.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Eric to Verisk,” said Rob Newbold, president of Extreme Event Solutions at Verisk. “His experience in predictive analytics and risk modeling and his focus on listening to and anticipating the needs of clients will advance our ongoing technology transformation.”

With more than two decades of technology leadership, Spear has led numerous technological transformations across diverse industries. For the past five years, he served as the senior vice president of engineering for Flywire, a global payments enablement and software company. Prior to that, he was the senior vice president of engineering for Cengage Learning, an education and content provider.

As Chief Technology Officer, Spear will lead Verisk’s engineering, quality assurance, and IT functions. Under Spear’s leadership, the team will drive continue to innovation through AI- and cloud-based architecture, delivering high-resiliency solutions that aim to accelerate product development and market delivery. A key focus for him will be enabling automated workflows and scalable computing resources to enhance clients’ catastrophe risk modeling operations. Spear brings experience operating within publicly traded organizations and remains committed to solving customer challenges and delivering unmatched value across the insurance value chain.

“Verisk’s purpose to advance global resilience immediately struck a chord with me,” Spear said. “Catastrophe modeling is a powerful solution for solving complex technological challenges that directly impact insurers and the consumers they protect. I’m eager to help refine and expand the capabilities that allow the global insurance market to respond more accurately and effectively to catastrophes. By leveraging cutting-edge cloud-native software platforms, we’re reinventing how data is harnessed—optimizing workflows and streamlining decision-making to deliver enhanced insights and more resilient support across the insurance value chain.”

Verisk Extreme Event Solutions offers a global suite of catastrophe models that cover more than 120 countries and territories, capturing the risk from global natural catastrophes and man-made events, including terrorism and extreme casualty catastrophes. Insurance, reinsurance, financial, corporate and government clients rely on Verisk's advanced science, software and consulting services for catastrophe risk management, insurance-linked securities and agricultural risk management. These solutions enable clients to make informed decisions and help people, businesses and communities build resilience against potential disasters.

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