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Ron Dembo


Dr. Ron S. Dembo is President and Chief Executive Officer of Algorithmics Incorporated, a leading provider of innovative enterprise-wide financial risk management software, which he founded in 1989.  For the past nine years, Alogorithmics has pioneered financial risk management solutions with an impressive array of products.

Before founding Algorithmics, Dr. Dembo created and managed a group at Goldman Sachs responsible for fixed income optimization modelling.  Prior to that, he had a distinguished academic career and served on the faculties of several universities.  From 1976 to 1986, he served as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Operations Research in Computer Science at Yale University and as a visiting Professor for Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Dembo has written and published over 50 technical papers on Finance and Mathematical Optimization and holds two trademark patents for Portfolio Replication.  Currently, he is an adjunct Professor for Operations Research at the University of Toronto.  He is also the founder of NetExposure, the Electronic Journal of Financial Risk.  His latest book on risk, Seeing Tomorrow:  Weighing Financial Risk in Everyday Life, which he co-authored with Andrew Freeman will be published in May 1998 by Wiley in the US and UK and by McClelland & Stewart in Canada.

Dr. Dembo holds several degrees including a B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1969), an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1972), and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Waterloo, Ontario (1975).  He also received a Diploma in French Civilization and Language from the Sorbonne University in 1972.

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