OUR TEAM

We are the fusion of meteorology, tech and sport. As former NASA engineers, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, meteorologists, sports scientists and MLB players, we have united with a common goal: to showcase and apply just how impactful the force of nature is on sports. Our combined talents makeup a WAM team passionately committed to applying the force of data to discover how weather changes the outcomes of our favorite pastimes.

Brett Jackson
Brett Jackson
Chief Executive Officer
Brett is a former Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks. After retiring from baseball in 2015, he has worked in the tech start-up space, most notably for the sports science technology company, Sparta Science, where he worked directly with professional and collegiate sports organizations to predict and prevent injuries and improve performance with Sparta's force plate data analytics.
Having played in Wrigley's notorious elements, Brett is excited to apply WAM's game changing insights to sports, aiding in-game play, statistical depth, and the viewer experience.
Ken Arneson
Ken Arneson
Chief Technology Officer
Ken is an experienced software engineer who has worked at several internet startups. He holds a BA in English from UC Berkeley, and a BS in Computer Science from Cal State Hayward.
In 2005, Ken founded Baseball Toaster, a popular baseball blogging web site. In addition to writing there, he has also written articles for the leading online sabermetric journal, Baseball Prospectus.
A dual US-Swedish citizen, Ken thinks the old Swedish proverb, "There is no bad weather, only bad clothes," is quite apt for the goals of this project. He looks forward to helping the sports industry become better prepared for the weather.
Matt Long
Matt Long
Chief Commercial Officer
Matt has experience in the sports tech industry and in professional sports. A former professional baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels and Milwaukee Brewers organizations, Matt joined WAM's team after working for Sparta Science where he contributed in building the the company from a 10 person human performance technology company to a 50+ person human data platform working across three major industries - Sports, Government, and Healthcare. Having worked in sales, marketing, and product, Matt has a strong understanding of the ways data is leveraged across different departments to drive organizational succcess.
Dan McInerny
Dan McInerny
Chairman of the Board
Dan brings over four decades of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and brand strategy across the action sports, outdoor, and apparel industries. A former professional baseball player and UC Berkeley graduate, Dan has held executive roles at industry-leading companies, including Quiksilver and No Fear, and co-founded successful ventures such as Surfers, cie., Hub360, and OluKai. In 2022, he joined Weather Applied Metrics to leverage his expertise in innovation and strategic growth, supporting the company's mission to quantify weather's impact on sports.
Abhi Kesbhat
Abhi Kesbhat
Software Engineer
Abhi holds a MS in Computational Science from UC San Diego and a BS in Physics from Ohio State. With research in various topics ranging from nuclear energy to wind turbines to satellites, Abhi is eager to apply his scientific computing skills to WAM and help advance weather-related analytics in the sports industry.
Ryan Stanten
Ryan Stanten
Technical Lead
As technical lead, Ryan is responsible for translating and communicating all real-time weather action with our partners. A graduate of the University of Arizona, he has a passion for sports and all weather aside from high desert temperatures. He's excited to be a part of a team that has so much experience and commitment to science, and is looking forward to helping provide a better understanding of weather components, and their impact, to the average sports fan.
Bryce Patterson
Bryce Patterson
Customer Success Lead
Bryce is a seasoned leader in human performance and customer success with extensive experience in sports technology. For nine years at Sparta Science he led customer success for high-profile clients (MLB, NFL, DOJ), while enhancing engagement through comprehensive knowledge management and technology implementations.
Previously, Bryce spent six years as a collegiate strength and conditioning coach, where he also taught exercise science courses. He holds an MS in Applied Health Sciences and a BS in Sports and Exercise Science.
Bryce's broad experience in dynamic start-up environments has honed his problem-solving ability, attention to detail, and communication skills, driving his success in fostering relationships with WAM customers and partners.
Doug Sinton
Doug Sinton
Chief Scientist
Doug has a PhD in Atmospheric Science from UCLA and is an Emeritus Professor at San Jose State University, where he was on the faculty of the Meteorology Department for 20 years.
His work at SJSU included helping develop the San Francisco International Airport Marine Stratus Forecast System which has been in continuous operation since 1995. He also helped develop the San Francisco Bay Wind project. Other research interests include the genesis of tropical storms and hurricanes.
Faith Wilson-Grove
Faith Wilson-Grove
Board of Directors
Faith holds a BA in Economics from Vassar College and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is excited to be part of the WAM team.
Debra Olson
Debra Olson
Board of Directors
Debra Olson serves as chief legal officer of Cupertino Electric, Inc. (CEI) and is a member of the company's executive leadership team. In her role, Olson manages CEI's in-house legal department and corporate risk and insurance departments.
Prior to joining CEI, Olson held management and legal positions at leading energy generation, technology, development and construction companies, including NAES Corporation/NAES Power Contractors, Calpine Corporation, AREVA Solar and Vestas Americas Wind. Prior to her in-house counsel roles, Olson was a partner in a large regional law firm specializing in commercial/industrial project development, construction and financing matters.
John Farley
John Farley
Meteorologist, Co-Founder
John Farley holds a MS in Meteorology from San Jose State University, where he received the honor of Graduate of the Last Decade from the College of Science in 2001.
While in Graduate School, John worked with a team to create mathematical models that forecast the fog at San Francisco International Airport. His team was given the Excellence in Aviation Award from the FAA in 2002. As a consultant for a Pacific Gas and Electric, his responsibilities included temperature, wind, snow, and severe weather forecasting, as well as modeling long-term electricity generation forecasts for proposed wind farms. For 6 years John was the General Partner for Glacier Point Capital, where he and his team created weather models used to trade commodities.
John is an EMMY Award winning meteorologist, and is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist with the American Meteorological Society.
Bill Martin
Bill Martin
Meteorologist, Co-Founder
Bill graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Physical Geography with an emphasis in Climatology and 3 years postgraduate at San Francisco State studying Atmospheric Science. After San Francisco State, an internship at KRON Television (NBC), in San Francisco led him to become Chief Meteorologist at KFTY(Ind) in Santa Rosa for 2 years.
He later moved to KPIX(CBS) in San Francisco where he was their morning show meteorologist for 2 years, and in 1993 landed at KTVU Bay Area doing weekends. At that time KTVU did not have a weather department, and he was given the opportunity of creating and building KTVU's weather brand from the ground up. Bill became the Chief Meteorologist in 1995.
In 2014, after over 25 years forecasting weather in the Bay Area, he was one of 6 meteorologists in the country chosen to go to the White House to interview President Obama on Climate Change. Bill is an EMMY Award winning meteorologist, and is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist with the American Meteorological Society.
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
Co-Founder
Innovative and ambitious CEO, President, and Board Member with 30 years of executive management experience including 12 years of public company management. Competitive and passionate leader of consumer and enterprise technology companies. Highly skilled in identifying unmet consumer needs and growing companies exponentially and positioning them for funding and subsequent acquisition.
Peter is an avid sports fan, former D1 soccer player for UC Berkeley, and has two sons who have played in Major League Baseball.
Jeff Neubarth
Jeff Neubarth
Advisor
A 3 time Emmy award winner, Jeff has been involved in TV Production for over 20 years and credits include all four golf majors, three of the 4 tennis majors, The NBA Finals and the World Series. He was the line producer for all four editions of The Match. He is currently the VP of Media & Production at TMRW Sports.
Mansi Shah
Mansi Shah
Advisor
Mansi is a partner at Kilpatrick Townsend, where she combines her litigation skills with intellectual property expertise to provide clients with a spectrum of intellectual property services from patent and trademark counseling to patent, trade secret and technology-based litigation.
With a background in software engineering and computer science, she has served as outside yet trusted "in-house" counsel for companies, analyzing, and advising on a spectrum of IP issues.
Jeff Proctor
Jeff Proctor
Advisor
With more than 30 years of experience in television production, Jeff Proctor has produced hundreds of professional and collegiate sporting events and has served as executive producer for thousands of others. He is the president and founder of ProAngle Media, a production company that has been responsible for local and national telecasts for clients that include CBS, ESPN, FOX, the Los Angeles Chargers, and many others.
During his career, Proctor has won 13 Los Angeles Area Sports Emmy Awards as both a producer and executive producer including producing wins for best live sports production and best sports series. He's a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and he played four years of baseball for the Hoyas. He's a board member of Joe Torre's Safe at Home Foundation and of LA36, the Los Angeles County-run television station. He's also a member of the advisory board for the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission. He lives in Manhattan Beach with his wife Lisa and has two adult children.

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