Roger Coleman Inducted Into The Distinguished Barron’s Hall Of Fame

A resident of New York, Roger Coleman currently serves as an impact investor and as the president of Disaster Technologies Incorporated in Washington, D.C. Recently, Roger received the honor of induction into the prestigious and distinguished Barron’s Hall of Fame.

A trusted source of market ideas and financial insight, Barron’s has ranked financial advisors since 2004. The organization, which was founded in 1921, currently names only a small fraction of the top one percent of financial advisors to its Hall of Fame list. Clearly, not just any financial advisor can qualify. To qualify for the Hall of Fame, advisors must first answer over 100 questions about their financial advising practices. Questions on the survey, which range from assets under management and revenue to industry designations and philanthropic work, provide insight into the professionalism of each candidate. In terms of quantitative metrics, Barron’s focuses most heavily on assets and revenue. Both of these metrics are influenced by client choice and client driven referrals, which indicate high quality financial advisors.

 

 

 

 

 

Another Award for Roger Coleman

 

Disaster Tech Chief Strategy Officer Roger Coleman has once again been named to The Top 100 magazines list of the top advisors for 2021. The magazine annually puts together industry lists including Lawyers, Doctors, Women in Business, and 40 under 40. To compile it's Top 100 rankings, the magazine uses a proprietary software deploying an algorithm that scans the web for resources identifying qualified candidates. The research and development department then finalizes its decision accordingly.

To learn more about Roger and his role at Disaster Tech, go to: 

 https://www.disastertech.com/about-us

 or

https://rogervcoleman.com/blog/ 

 

 

More Big News Coming Out of Buzz Feed

A longtime resident of New York and Chief Strategy Officer at Disaster Tech, Roger Coleman is also involved with a number of high profile companies.

In particular, BuzzFeed, is currently in talks with SPAC 890 Fifth Avenue Partners to go public with terms still unavailable at this time. To read more about this potential deal, click here.

Major Announcement from BuzzFeed

 In a huge media merger, one of the many companies that Roger Coleman is involved with out of his New York office, BuzzFeed, announced recently that they will be acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media.

 As part of the plan, BuzzFeed will acquire HuffPost as part of a larger stock deal, the two websites will remain the same. Because of their appeal to different demographic readerships, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti feels that they should complement each other well.

To learn more about this merger, go to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/business/media/buzzfeed-huffpost.html

To learn more about Roger Coleman and the many companies he is involved with go go:

 https://rogervcoleman.com/discover/

 

New Board Member Announced at Disaster Technologies

Longtime New York resident Roger Coleman is the Chief Strategy Office at Disaster Technologies where he helps the company navigate deal sourcing. Recently the company announced a new board member has been added in Nivi Achanta. 

Achanta is currently the CEO and founder of Soapbox Project, a startup that helps busy millennials fight climate change straight from their inbox. Soapbox gives its users bite-sized, informative action plans for social and environmental issues they care about. 

To learn more about the recent addition of Achanta, go to https://blog.disastertech.com/the-latest/disaster-tech-names-nivi-achanta-as-new-board-member

 

Disaster Tech Making Headlines With Disaster Management Scalability

As the Chief Strategy Officer for Disaster Technologies, longtime New York resident Roger Coleman is involved with a number of high profile responsibilities for the company.

In early October, Disaster Tech announced the availability of Data science Integrated Collaboration Environment (DICE) in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Disaster Tech customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

The platform uses analytics to better forecast disasters and therefore, allows for another level of preparedness. All in all, DICE is using real-time data for situational awareness and operational coordination across multiple hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, and COVID-19 – all on Microsoft Teams. This availability on Teams has accelerated Disaster Tech’s ability to arm disaster managers with the tools they need to perform in high-stress situations. 

Roger Coleman, along with CEO Sean Griffin are excited about the potential in allowing disaster managers the ability to perform in high stress situations.

“The availability of DICE in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Microsoft Teams reveals Disaster Tech’s commitment to delivering a collaborative and sophisticated environment for disaster and emergency teams,” said Sean Griffin, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Disaster Tech. “We know customers are looking for solutions to accurately — and simply — integrate their own unique data to accelerate decision making processes before and when disasters hit. This integration helps us deliver a single pane of glass platform to multiple high-risk sectors, including government, utility and the healthcare industry, resulting in increased data visualization, streamlined report generation, and significant savings to lives, money and time.”  

To learn more about Disaster Tech and the latest news, go to: https://www.disastertech.com/

To learn more about Roger Coleman, check him out on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-coleman/ 

Major Hurricanes Result in Millions of Dollars of Destruction

Roger Coleman graduated with high honors from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he studied international business and marketing. Now serving as president and chief strategy officer of Disaster Technologies Incorporated, Roger Coleman oversees the facilitation of software that allows leaders to manage and make split-second decisions during natural disasters, such as a hurricane.

Between 2018 and 2019, weather disasters, including hurricanes, caused $136 billion in damages across the country. The hurricane season, which lasts from June through November, often results in the loss of homes and property for many families nationwide.

During the 2019 season, 18 storms grew large enough to earn names, and six of those evolved into hurricanes, with winds reaching 74 miles per hour or higher. Three of the 2019 hurricanes reached the status of category three or more, meaning they sustained winds higher than 111 miles per hour. These storms wreaked havoc along coastlines, causing damage with high winds and storm surges and resulting in deaths and destruction. The most expensive of these three storms proved to be Hurricane Dorian.

Hurricane Dorian reached the devastating level of category five on September 1, 2019. The storm then hit the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas as well as Grand Bahama Island. It later restrengthened, impacting the Outer Banks in North Carolina. With over 185-mile-per-hour winds, Dorian recorded the highest sustained winds of an Atlantic Ocean-based hurricane since the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. Damage caused by the disaster totaled around $2 billion.