Matt Stein is the CEO and Co-founder of Salient, which is the trusted leader in medium-to-long range AI-based weather forecasting for the financial and energy sectors. Prior to Salient, Matt was the global head of Business Development and first employee of Jupiter Intelligence, the leader in climate risk analytics, which he took from zero to more than $5 million in annual revenue. Matt began his startup journey by founding and leading Multitude, an air quality technology company, to a successful acquisition. Prior to startups, Matt worked in larger corporations such as GE, where he spent 6 years in business development roles including Head of Commercial Strategy and Data Ecosystems for GE Digital. Matt started his career at Prudential Financial as an investment banking analyst. He earned his BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford, and MBA in Finance from Cornell.