Storm Exchange
Private | |
Industry | Publisher |
Founded | 2006 |
Headquarters | New York, NY, U.S. |
Key people | David Riker; Dennis Reaves; John A. Dutton, PhD; Jordan Rizzuto; Jan Dutton PhD; Jeremy Ross PhD; Gail Martell; Bradley Gambling; Richard James PhD |
Products | StormX (stormx.com) |
Slogan | The Source of Weather for Business |
Website | http://www.stormx.com |
Storm Exchange, Inc. is a publisher of weather intelligence for business that was founded in 2006. The Company is headquartered in New York City and operates a weather research center in State College, PA.
Storm Exchange publishes the StormX (http://www.stormx.com) website which provides free information related to the impact of weather on business decisions, including information tailored to the agriculture, retail and energy communities. The Company’s agriculture website (http://www.stormx.com/agriculture or http://www.cropprojections.com) features daily articles on wheat, corn, and soy by leading Agriculture analyst Gail Martell as well as USDA NASS crop progress and condition charts, yield forecasts and other weather intelligence related to United States crop yield, planting, production and harvest. John Adams, former Director of Editorial Services for Storm Exchange, created various social media marketing products including the StormWire News Service and weekly radio pieces broadcast around the country.
Storm Exchange’s StormX news and daily analysis can also be found through the AgWeb (Farm Journal) website and the Bloomberg L.P. terminal.
Dennis Reaves is COO of Storm Exchange. Mr. Reaves served as the former CTO of Odyssey Logistics & Technology, and was an early architect for Qpass.
John A. Dutton, Ph.D., is the Chief Scientist and weather advisor for Storm Exchange. He is an Emeritus Professor of Meteorology and Dean Emeritus of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State University. He received his PhD. at the University of Wisconsin.
Further reading
- "Weather remains a wildcard for grain price bubble", Farm News, April 18, 2008
- "Private Equity Investors Increase Stake in Storm Exchange", company press release, March 4, 2008
- "Meteorologists Shape Fashion Trends", New York Times, December 2, 2007