# About Us

### Meet Benchmark Labs

## We Make Benchmark Labs

Our co-founders have more than 15 years working with land surface flux measurements, terrestrial water budgets, soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer scheme modeling, hydro-informatics, atmospheric sciences, machine learning and commercial agriculture.

#### Carlos Gaitan

CEO & Co-Founder

**Elected Member AI Committee**, American Meteorological Society  
**Co-Founder & Chief Climate Scientist**, ClimateAI, Inc.  
**VP of ML & Weather Forecasting**, Arable Labs  
**Research Scientist**, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Princeton  
**Postdoctoral Researcher**, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Princeton  
**Ph.D. University of British Columbia**, Atmospheric Science  
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-felipe-gaitan-ospina-3765808/)

#### Ulrik Soderstrom

Chief Strategy + Operations Officer & Co-founder

**Chief Executive Officer**, Leerly  
**President,** McKinsey & Company Alumni Founders Community  
**Engagement Manager,** Voyance Group  
**Senior Business Analyst,** McKinsey & Company  
**Data Scientist,** National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)  
**Researcher,** Geomorphology labs at University of Rochester & Cornell  
**M.S. University of Rochester,** Data Science  
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrik-soderstrom-4a328a86/)

#### Marshall Borrus

Deployed Engineer

**Research and Project Assistant,** Stanford University  
**Venture Capital Fellow,** Norrsken VC  
**Winemaking Assistant,** Foris Vineyards  
**B.A. Williams College,** Physics & Geoscience  
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mborrus/)

## In Grateful Memory Of

#### Christopher Lund

Co-Founder

**VP of Ag Products**, ClimateAI  
**VP of Growth**, Arable Labs  
**Senior Ag IoT Solutions Architect**, Verizon  
**Director & Senior Research Scientist**, Decagon Devices  
**Research Scientist**, NASA Ames SIMS Program  
**Ph.D. Stanford University**, Biological Sciences

## Why Benchmark Labs?

#### Intelligent Insights  
Created by experts for everyday users. We bring the best available scientific tools and datasets to improve our users’ decision-making process.

#### Personalized Attention  
We provide asset-specific weather forecasts for the agricultural sector and other fixed asset verticals.

#### Team Work  
We operate in an environment defined by collaboration and continuous improvement. Those characteristics are also embedded in our forecasts.

#### Innovation  
Modern weather models produce forecasts for grid cells, but not for specific locations within grid cells. As a result, forecasts are often inaccurate and can lead to significant financial losses.

## Benchmark Labs in the news

## [Benchmark Labs featured in Google’s Economic Impact Report](/content/blog/benchmark-labs-featured-in-googles-environmental-impact-report/index.html)  
Benchmark Labs was selected by Google to represent California in its 2024 Economic Impact Report. Highlighting Benchmark Labs’ use of AI technologies to create a positive economic impact to its users in agriculture and other sectors.

## [Podcast \| Personalized Weather Technology On Successful Farming Radio](/content/media/podcast-personalized-weather-technology-successful-farming/index.html)  
14 March 2022 – Benchmark Labs Inc. (Benchmark Labs), a leading provider of asset-specific environmental forecasting solutions, is featured on Successful Farming Radio. CEO and Co-Founder Carlos Gaitan is interviewed for the podcast in an episode titled "Personalized...

## Benchmark Labs selected as a 2022 Cool Company

Benchmark Labs selected by Connect San Diego as one of the fastest, most exciting startups in Southern California; a Cool Company.