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Address

Phone

E-mail

1755 Robson Street #469, Vancouver BC, Canada V6G 3B7

(604) 608-9779

mark [at] votermedia.org

VoterMedia.org

Founder

Promoting and sponsoring implementations of voter-funded media to improve accountability of elected leaders in democracies and corporations.

The Corporate Monitoring Project

Founder; Corporate Governance Consultant

Developing and promoting a new approach to improving shareowner oversight of corporate management.

Merrill Lynch, Tokyo

Director; Head of Quantitative Equity Trading Group

Created and traded quantitative strategies in Japanese equity and derivative instruments, including stocks, warrants and futures.

Salomon Brothers, New York

Vice President; Head of Risk Management Department

Firmwide risk measurement – model development, system integration, risk pricing, forecasting, monitoring, validation.

Salomon Brothers Asia, Tokyo

Vice President

Built arbitrage trading models and systems. Pricing and risk management of equity, fixed-income and currency derivatives.

1984 - 1989

1982 - 1984

University of California at Berkeley, School of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Finance
Acting Assistant Professor of Finance

- Taught courses in security markets (stocks, bonds, options, futures), fundamental valuation, arbitrage, risk and return, investment management, corporate finance.
- Won 1984 Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teacher Award.
- Research on information, risk, and security pricing.

Strategic Planning Associates, Washington, DC

Summer Associate in the finance group of this business consulting firm.  Acquisition studies, inflation accounting, dividend and debt policy for Fortune 500 companies.

1984

M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ph.D. in Finance, supervised by Robert C. Merton and Fischer Black.  Thesis: “Essays on Information and Equilibrium in Security Markets”

1978

1974

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

M.Sc. in Business Administration
B.Sc. in Mathematics

"Voter-Funded Media: Governance Reform for Democracies and Corporations"

Working paper

"Proxy Voting Brand Competition"

Journal of Investment Management, vol. 5, no. 1

"Vote Your Stock"

Working paper

“Democracy and Infomediaries”

Corporate Governance - An International Review, vol. 11, no. 2

“The Internet Will Drive Corporate Monitoring”

Corporate Governance International, vol. 3, no. 2
(French translation in Gouvernance - Revue Internationale, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 2000.)

“Corporate Governance in Japan: A Future Scenario”

Japan’s Security Analysts Journal, vol. 38, no. 1

“Collective Action for Dispersed Shareowners”

Corporate Governance International, vol. 2, no. 3

“The Corporate Monitoring Firm”

Corporate Governance - An International Review, vol. 7, no. 1. (Korean translation in Seoul National University’s Journal of Finance and Banking, December 1998 issue. Japanese translation in Japan’s Security Analysts Journal, vol. 36, no. 8, August 1998.)

“Corporate Monitoring: New Shareholder Power Tool”

Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 54, no. 5

“Proposed: A Governance ‘Monitor’”

The Corporate Board, vol. 18, no. 106
(Chinese translation in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics’ Foreign Economies and Management, Sept/Oct 1998 issue.)

“The Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Supershares”

Journal of Finance, vol. 44, no. 2

“Informational Efficiency and Information Subsets”

Journal of Finance, vol. 41, no. 1

2005 - 2006

Fall 2004

Strata Corporation BCS 460 (Condominium "The Classico")

Treasurer

President

American Association of Individual Investors – Life Member

1993

Languages – Japanese and French

1st place, Japanese Speech Contest, Japan Society (New York)