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Christopher Bean founded Aetheric on a conviction shaped by more than 30 years at the sharp end of lightning protection engineering: that the world's critical infrastructure deserves more than reactive, rules-based solutions.
His career began in the field — designing and deploying protection systems for power grids, data centres, industrial facilities, and critical infrastructure across the United States, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
Career Highlights
Areas of Expertise
- Lightning protection system design for critical infrastructure
- Grounding and earthing engineering
- Surge protection coordination
- AI-powered lightning risk assessment and predictive modelling
- Multi-jurisdictional standards compliance (IEC 62305, AS/NZS 1768:2021, NFPA 780, IEEE 80)
- Enterprise lightning resiliency strategy
After three decades in lightning protection, I founded Aetheric with a single conviction: that critical infrastructure deserves more than reactive engineering. We're building toward a fully integrated lightning intelligence ecosystem — real-time data, predictive risk modelling, and AI-driven insights, delivered as a service.
Christopher Bean · Founder, AethericFrom Experience to Conviction
Three decades of field experience revealed a consistent pattern:
- Assessments lag behind reality — risk calculations based on outdated data, disconnected from actual site lightning activity
- Protection strategies react rather than anticipate — systems designed for conditions at installation with no mechanism to adapt
- Clients lack visibility — infrastructure owners left without a clear picture of their actual exposure
- Knowledge walks out the door — expertise retained by individuals rather than embedded in systems
Aetheric was founded to close these gaps — pairing industry depth with analytical platforms and a service model that delivers continuously informed protection management.
Skytree Scientific & Aetheric
Christopher's co-founding of Skytree Scientific gives Aetheric a structural advantage: direct influence over the development of the analytical tools the practice depends on.
- LRA Plus™ — AI-powered risk assessment with real-time lightning location data
- Multi-standard compliance — IEC 62305-2, AS/NZS 1768:2021, NFPA 780 Annex L
- Climate intelligence — current lightning data supporting forward-looking assessment