INGENIAR [Ingeniería y Análisis de Riesgos] was founded by Omar Darío Cardona Arboleda in 1986 in Manizales city, with the aim of offering specialized services in the field of engineering, planning and public policy, with emphasis in seismic resistant structure design, urban planning, risk modelling and disaster risk management, and specialized software development.

The company provides specialized consulting services primarily for insurance and reinsurance companies to provide assessments on natural hazards, modeling and management of disaster risk, adaptation to climate change, resilience, environmental management and the development of specialized software for financial and risk transfer. In addition to insurance companies, the company has undertaken strategic alliances with other national and international consultants for consulting firms, brokers, government entities and international organizations including the World Bank, IDB, UNDP, OFDA-AID, UNISDR. INGENIAR has provided risk modeling services in 32 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Indian Ocean contributing to the development and planning of a comprehensive approach to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.