Bob Mark Biography
Dr. Robert M. Mark (Bob Mark) is the President and CEO of Black Diamond. Black Diamond provides financial service consulting and risk transaction service. He serves on the Boards of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, IBM's Deep Computing Institute and the Royal Conservatory. In 1999 he was awarded the Financial Risk Manager of the Year award by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).
Prior to his current position Bob was the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Dr. Bob Mark reported directly to the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CIBC, and was a member of the Management Committee. Dr. Mark’s global responsibility covered all credit, market and operating risks for all of CIBC as well as for its subsidiaries. Prior to his CRO position, he was the Corporate Treasurer of CIBC.
Prior to CIBC, he was the Partner in charge of the Financial Risk Management Consulting at Coopers and Lybrand within the financial service practice. The Risk Management Practice at Coopers and Lybrand advised clients on market and credit risk management issues and was directed toward financial institutions and multinational corporations. This specialty area also coordinated the delivery of the firm’s accounting, tax, control, and litigation services to provide clients with integrated and comprehensive risk management solutions and opportunities.
Prior to his position at Coopers and Lybrand, Dr Robert Mark (Bob Mark) was a Managing Director in the Asia, Europe, and Capital Markets Group (AECM) at Chemical Bank. His responsibilities within AECM encompassed risk management, asset/liability management, research (quantitative analysis), strategic planning and analytic systems. He served on the Senior Credit Committee of the Bank. Before he joined Chemical Bank, he was a senior officer at Marine Midland Bank/Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Group (HKSB) where he headed the technical analysis trading group within the Capital Markets Sector.
He earned his PhD with a dissertation in options pricing, from New York University’s Graduate School of Engineering and Science, graduating first in his class. Subsequently, he received an Advanced Professional Certificate (APC) in accounting from NYU’s Stern Graduate School of Business, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. He is an Adjunct Professor and co-author of "Risk Management" (McGraw-Hill) published in October 2000. He served on the board of ISDA and was also the Chairman of the National Asset/Liability Management Association (NALMA).
Note: Above content on Dr. Robert Mark is from page 2 of Bob Mark's presentation (at INFORMS held at Montreal Canada) 'hyping' Xamplify. Details of the first page are as follows:
Dr. Robert M. Mark
President and CEO
Black Diamond Risk Enterprises
Tel: (416) 916-3398
Email: bmark@blackdiamondrisk.com
Analyzing and Enhancing the Extended Enterprise
Hilton Montreal Bonaventure
Montreal, Canada
Track 1: Monday May 20 (2002)
INFORMS Conference on OR/MS Practice
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
(Last Updated: February 6, 2004.)
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