Mr. Accame serves as Risk Manager for Hamilton Development and as Industry Advisor at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research’s (NCAR) Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes (C3WE). He also serves on the leadership team for the ASTM E3429 Property Resiliency Assessment (PRA) work group. He formerly served as the Industry Liaison for climate adaptation at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and chaired an Industry Advisory Panel conducting a Climate Applications Testbed including NOAA and private industry. He contributed to The Royal Society’s Human Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters study and participated in the launch of the Climate Data Initiative at the White House. Mr. Accame was previously the Director of Risk Management at Panattoni Development, a multi-national industrial development company. Mr. Accame also spent 15 years as Vice President and General Manager at WSP, and 10 years as Division Manager at Greenhorne & O’Mara where in 1985 he co-founded the firm’s environmental practice. He served for 13 years on the board and was the head of the audit committee at Quanta Indemnity Company, a multi-national specialty lines insurance company. Mr. Accame holds an advanced degree in Geochemistry and Remote Sensing from Purdue University, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland, and is a Professional Geologist.
