Prior to joining RANE as Chief Financial Officer in 2014, Bill Detwiler spent more than 20 years as an investment banker covering clients in the Media and Technology industries, with particular expertise in Information Services, Publishing and Digital Content. Bill has extensive experience addressing strategic, economic and financial market issues at the CEO/board level and has executed more than 75 transactions including a broad spectrum of public and private equity and debt financings and M&A advisory assignments.

For the three years prior to joining RANE, Bill was a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets in New York, where he founded and led the firm’s leading investment banking practice focused on Information Services. From 2006 through 2010, Bill was a Managing Director at RBS Securities, most recently as Co-Head of the Telecom, Media & Technology practice within RBS’s M&A and Corporate Finance Advisory Group. At RBS, Bill was responsible for originating and structuring transactions for corporate and private equity clients.Prior to joining RBS, Bill worked at both Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan where he led the investment banking practice focused on Publishing, Information & Marketing Services. He also worked as Associate Director at Bear Stearns in the firm’s Media & Entertainment Group.Bill received a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford CT and an M.B.A. from The University of Michigan. He served for five years as a member of the Alumni Board of Governors for the University of Michigan Business School.

Deirdre is RANE’s Chief Client Officer. Prior to Joining RANE, Deirdre served as Vice President, Global Intelligence at Nasdaq, delivering technology, analytics, and consultative solutions to Investor Relations and Corporate Governance professionals, as well as to the C-Suite. Deirdre had P&L ownership and was responsible for driving organic growth, executing strategic acquisitions, and delivering margin expansion.

During her 17-year tenure at Nasdaq and predecessor companies, Deirdre served in a variety of leadership roles across multiple functions, including client service, operations, commercial management, and strategy. Deirdre has extensive international experience, having been based in London, UK for 11 years, supporting clients and managing teams across EMEA and APAC.

After relocating to New York City, Deirdre was appointed as Global Head of Advisory Services, responsible for a team of analysts across seven countries, providing data, analytics, and content to support Investor Relations professionals and CFOs in their shareholder engagement and capital allocation activities.

Deirdre graduated magna cum laude from Bates College with a BA in Political Science. She is a member of the Women’s Bond Club of New York.

Greg Radner is RANE’s Chief Marketing Officer. Greg is an experienced marketing and business executive with a focus on brand building, business growth, and customer-driven innovation. Before joining RANE, Greg was Vice President, Marketing for National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company and a leading provider of clearing and custody solutions. Greg was responsible for National Financial’s thought leadership, public relations, and advertising programs.

Prior to Fidelity, Greg was Global Head of PR Services at Thomson Reuters, where he managed their solutions for public relations professionals to streamline and simplify their workflow, increase the effectiveness of their media outreach, and help them analyze perceptions among their key stakeholders. While at Thomson Reuters, Greg conceived, designed and launched BoardLink, a web-based board and C-suite communications tool now used by many Fortune 500 companies. Greg has also held senior marketing and product management roles at CCBN (acquired by Thomson Reuters) and at FleetBoston Financial (acquired by Bank of America). He is a graduate of Harvard University and received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sunand is Chief Product Officer of RANE, responsible for Product Management, Strategy and M&A. Sunand is also an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School where he co-teaches the "Leading in the Digital Era" program. He was the founder of New Media Insight, an advisory firm focused on digital transformation and AI commercialization.

Previously, he spent a decade at Thomson Reuters in various roles, including Global Head of New Ventures, where he was responsible for incubating new information and analytics businesses. He was the founder and managing director of Thomson Reuters Indices, which he subsequently grew into a multimillion-dollar global licensing and subscription business. Sunand holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc in Engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands and holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Babu is an experienced technology leader with over 25 years building software products in various capacities. At RANE Babu is focused on building and evolving the technical infrastructure, architecture and strategy to deliver ever increasing value to customers. Before joining RANE Babu was Vice President of Product Architecture at Smarsh a leading provider of archiving and supervision for electronic communications for enterprises. At Smarsh Babu designed and managed the development of a petabyte scale archive and analytics platform that could ingest and analyze over 80 million messages a day.

Prior to Smarsh Babu was the Global Head of IM development at Thomson Reuters overseeing a gobal technology team delivering highly scalable financial analytics solutions like Starmine, Portolfio Analytics and Screener to Investment Managers. Leading the technology team for the biggest revenue unit for the financial division of Thomson Reuters. Babu has also held senior technical leadership positions at PORTIA (formerly owned by Thomson Fiancial) and Fidelity Investments. He has a Masters in Laser and Electro-Optic Engineering from College Of Engineering, Guindy, India.

Jake is responsible for RANE's flagship Core Intelligence product, new product and platform development, and data science. Prior to RANE, Jake spent 13 years at Candid, where he oversaw Candid's data, tech, design, product management, sales, and marketing operations. Jake managed all of Candid's core products, which collectively attracted millions of users per year around the world and were responsible for most of Candid's earned revenue. The Products division also included data discovery, machine learning, user experience research, and prototyping. Jake’s career spans a few seemingly unrelated disciplines: geography, programming, and music. From 1998 to 2008, he was a professional, touring musician. As a geographer and programmer, he worked on projects for NASA, Al Gore's Climate Project, the City of New York, Citigroup, and the U.S. Army.  Jake received a B.A. in political science from Brown University and an M.A. in geography from Hunter College.

Rodger Baker has spent more than two decades with Stratfor/RANE, where he’s focused on the Indo-Pacific region, with special attention to China and the Korean Peninsula. He addresses the strategic dynamics of an evolving world system -- looking at great power competition, the role of middle powers, and the impacts of technological, environmental, and demographic changes on geopolitical relationships. His core emphasis is the multidisciplinary approach to geopolitics and the evolution of international relations to develop mid- and long-term forecasts to assist companies, governments, and other globally engaged organizations make informed decisions. Rodger is a Senior Fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, a Steering Fellow for the Mackinder Forum, and teaches a certificate program in Geopolitical Analysis at Florida Atlantic University.

Brian W. Lynch is RANE's Executive Director, Safety + Security and Chief Security Officer. Brian is a recognized leader in the security, safety, risk, and crisis management space. He previously served for over 10 years as Head of Global Security at The Vanguard Group, Inc., having retired in February 2020. Brian successfully developed and implemented the firm’s corporate security and crisis management programs on a global basis. During his tenure, Brian designed the firm’s programs specifically related to crisis management, workplace safety and active shooter planning/training, threat and breach management, travel security, and intelligence, reducing the firm’s risk exposure. He authored and successfully implemented the firm’s active shooter program, to include the design of training modules and drills. Brian also authored the firm’s threat assessment team, the mechanism by which internal threats were successfully mitigated and addressed. As part of travel security, he designed the specific travel briefings afforded travelers related to security, safety, and counterintelligence matters, the latter of which dealt with the risks posed by state-sponsored intelligence agencies. Brian also designed Security Command Center operations across the enterprise, providing the capability to identify, analyze, assess and respond to security and safety incidents in a more efficient and effective manner, thereby reducing overall risk exposure to the firm and its employees.

Prior to working at Vanguard, Brian was a Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, retiring in 2009, after having served over 22 years. He was promoted to the Senior Executive Service, having served as both the Chief of the Terrorist Financing Operations Section, and as Deputy Director of Operations for the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center. During his tenure, Brian was Supervisory Special Agent leading a squad of agents addressing white collar crime and civil rights matters, as well as Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, leading division programs related to counterterrorism, counterintelligence and civil rights. He has extensive investigative experience, successfully addressing criminal and terrorism matters. Brian was also a primary member of the FBI’s SWAT team.

Brian has a B.S. degree in Accounting from Penn State University and is both a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant. He received numerous awards during his career in the FBI as well as from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Brian was selected to attend numerous executive leadership opportunities, to include: Leading Through Organizational Change at the Kellogg School, Northwestern University; Leading in Counterterrorism Matters at the Center for Counterterrorism, United States Military Academy at West Point; and the Executive Leadership in Counterterrorism, a four-week curriculum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Australian Institute of Police Management in Canberra and Sydney, Australia.

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Dr. Michael Lesser is a recognized leader in the public and hospital-based healthcare and crisis management space. He possesses wide-ranging experience as the director of major city-wide healthcare enterprises, hospitals and in the oversight of educational programs for medical professionals. In his recent positions as a Medical Director for New York City and State, he was instrumental in developing and implementing nationally recognized emergency and crisis response programs – including the training of law enforcement and first-responder agencies.

Michael has been at the forefront of public policy and educational efforts to effectively address mental health and substance abuse. Michael has also been active in designing effective mental health responses in the wake of terrorism attacks. As a practitioner and thought leader, he has a highly established track record of professional collaboration and problem solving throughout the state, federal and private sectors.

Michael received a B.S. from Brooklyn College and an M.D. from The Chicago Medical School. He did a residency in psychiatry at the Long Island Jewish – Hillside Medical Center and fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York. Among other positions, he served as Medical Director of the New York City Department of Mental Health Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services as well as New York City Medical Director of the New York State Office of Mental Health.

As RANE's Senior Director of Data Operations, Siobhan is responsible for establishing and maintaining data governance and quality control across the organization.  In addition, she manages the strategy and data collection for RANE's Global Composite Risk Index and Benchmarking datasets.  

Prior to joining RANE, Siobhan was the Global Head, Corporate Disclosures at Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters) where she led the product strategy, data collection and quality for Events, Transcripts, Filings and ESG datasets.  During her tenure at Thomson Reuters, Siobhan also served in several leadership positions within account management and client service teams.

Siobhan received a B.A. from Providence College.

Chris is a seasoned technology leader, covering a broad expanse in the information technology, cybersecurity, risk management, privacy and compliance arenas.  At RANE, Chris leads and coordinates departmental design and implementation of RANE’s holistic security strategy.

Chris is an active member of the FBI’s Infragard program, specializing in the Information Technology sector and he holds professional designations for CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) and CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information System Control) from ISACA.

Prior to joining RANE, Chris held technology, security and risk leadership roles at Planview, Troux Technologies, Question.com and Dallas Fire Insurance Company among others.  Chris attended Concordia Lutheran College and the University of Texas (Arlington).  Chris is an active local community volunteer.

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Laura Klein joined RANE as the Director of Business Intelligence in December 2021 with 15 years of experience in the due diligence industry. Prior to RANE, Ms. Klein served as a Senior Director at Kroll with the company’s Forensic Intelligence & Investigations practice where she managed teams assisting clients in making risk management decisions by conducting corporate intelligence investigations, locating and interviewing witnesses, asset searches, threat assessments, and fraud investigations. During the first year of the pandemic, Ms. Klein also worked to develop and publish Kroll’s COVID-19 Heat Map forecasting the impacts of the pandemic across multiple geographies and sectors. Before working for Kroll, Ms. Klein served as a Managing Consultant for Navigant (now Guidehouse) with the company’s Global Investigations & Compliance practice. While with the company, she specialized in fraud investigations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act due diligence, and Enhanced Due Diligence engagements. Ms. Klein also assisted in the creation, implementation, and management of anti-corruption third party due diligence programs for Global 500 companies. She began her career at a small private investigations firm, Corporate Resolutions, where she served as hiring manager and focused on litigation support investigations. Ms. Klein received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a Certified Fraud Examiner since 2009.

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