Joseph Stough

With a professional background in large-scale database software design and a graduate degree in Applied Statistics from the University of California, Joe Stough is the visionary and strategist behind the IMPACT ERM® Suite. Stough originally designed IMPACT to not only consolidate data from a broad array of different “risk reduction” processes but also to do so in a manner which practically enables the application of advanced statistical methods. With early adoption in the mid 1990’s in the Energy Industry for many Safety-related business practices, the use of the IMPACT solution now spans Security, Quality, Assets, Reliability, Environmental, and other areas of risk reduction business practices, globally used in over 24 different languages. Stough is now the VP of Innovation Technologies at IHS, a leading source of information and insight in pivotal areas that shape today’s business landscape including: energy, economics, geopolitical risk, EHS & sustainability and supply chain management.