Ilse Gayl

Ilse Gayl is a technology entrepreneur and environmental risk management strategist. She does corporate development and leads wildfire strategy at Advanced Environmental Monitoring (AEM.eco). Ilse has worked for 30+ years to manage weather- and water-related risk, first co-founding and leading OneRain and later acquiring High Sierra Electronics. Both companies' hydrologic early warning and water management solutions were the start of AEM's global enterprise. Ilse also serves as a council member on the Hydrometeorological Industry Association (HMEI) and as a member of the NOAA Science Advisory Board's Environmental Information Services Working Group. She was a founding board member of the National Hydrologic Warning Council and served on the University of Colorado's Telecommunications graduate program advisory board.