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NEWARK, Calif. - July 23, 2018  RMS, the world's leading risk modeling and analytics company, today announced the appointment of Reed Birnbaum as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), from his prior post of Senior Vice President, Finance and Analytics at RMS.

As CFO, Birnbaum will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Karen White, and serve as a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Birnbaum will oversee the company's financial management, including financial planning and reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, procurement and facilities functions. With his appointment, Birnbaum also joins the Board of Directors of RMS Japan.

“Reed has an exceptional track record of strategic leadership coupled with an adept talent for aligning people and resources to drive great outcomes,” said RMS CEO Karen White. “Reed’s high integrity, breadth of experience and skills along with his approach to collaboration with the team makes him the ideal choice. The Executive Committee and I are thrilled to have Reed in this role.”

Birnbaum brings more than 20 years of finance experience across private and public companies to RMS. Prior to joining RMS, he was Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller of Intermolecular, including through the company’s successful IPO in 2011. There he was responsible for corporate, field, and global finance and accounting. Prior to Intermolecular, Birnbaum held positions in finance and accounting at Better Place, BigBand Networks, Cellon and Exodus. Birnbaum started his career in public accounting at KPMG LLP, where he earned his license as a certified public accountant.

“I am excited and humbled by this appointment and the opportunity to join such a talented executive team,” said Birnbaum. “Having spent much of my career in fast-paced technology companies, I look forward to putting my background and skills to work to help facilitate continued growth for RMS.”

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Moody’s RMS shapes the world’s view of risk for insurers, reinsurers, financial services organizations, and the public sector, with Moody’s RMS models underlying the nearly $2 trillion USD Property & Casualty industry. Moody’s RMS empowers organizations to evaluate and manage global risk from natural and man-made catastrophes, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, climate change, cyber, and pandemics.

Moody’s RMS helped pioneer the catastrophe risk industry, and continues to lead in innovation, unmatched science, technology, and 300+ catastrophe risk models. Organizations can address the risks of tomorrow with the Intelligent Risk Platform™, the only open cloud with collaborative applications and unified analytics that can power risk management excellence.

Further supporting the industry’s transition to modern risk management, in 2020, Moody’s RMS spearheaded the Risk Data Open Standard (RDOS), a modern, open-standard data schema designed to be an extensible and flexible asset within modeling/analysis systems.

In 2021, Moody’s Corporation acquired Risk Management Solutions, Inc. and as part of Moody’s Analytics, Moody’s RMS serves the P&C insurance industry as the leading provider of expertise, science, and technology in integrated risk. A trusted solutions partner, Moody’s RMS enables effective risk management for better business decision-making across risk identification and selection, mitigation, underwriting, and portfolio management.

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