Dr. Ron Dembo
Dr. Ron Dembo is the Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint, an organization dedicated to a mass reduction in global environmental impact. Zerofootprint provides software and services to individuals, governments, universities, and corporations that measures and manages carbon footprint and engages employees and citizens worldwide in combating climate change. Zerofootprint came in first place and won Gold in the Climate Change category at the Canadian Environment Awards in 2008.
Prior to Zerofootprint, Ron was the Founder, CEO, and President of Algorithmics Inc., growing it from a start-up to the largest enterprise risk-management software company in the world, with offices in fifteen countries and over 70% of the world's top 100 banks as clients. Algorithmics was consistently voted as one of the top 50 best-managed companies in Canada.
Ron has also had a distinguished academic career at Yale, where he was cross-appointed between the Dept. of Computer Science and School of Management. Ron has published over sixty technical papers on finance and mathematical optimization, and holds a number of patents in computational finance. Ron is the author of three books.
In May 2007, Ron was made a lifetime Fields Institute Fellow. Ron’s alma mater, the University of Waterloo, honoured him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. He is a member of the University of Waterloo’s Deans Advisory Council in the Faculty of Environment, and a member of the Board of Advisors to the President at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. Ron is the Chair of the Information Technology committee of the Board at Mount Sinai Hospital, and is a member of the Board of Governors of University of Toronto’s NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) program.
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