Ron Dembo
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Dr. Ron S. Dembo is an academic and entrepreneur.
Academia
From 1976 to 1986, Dembo was a professor at Yale University, where he was cross appointed between the Department of Computer Science and the School of Management. During that period, he was also a visiting professor at MIT. He has published work on finance and mathematical optimization, and holds a number of patents in computational finance, climate change and software engineering.[1]
Entrepreneurship
Dembo was founder and CEO of Algorithmic's Incorporated.[2] Algorithmic's was sold to Fitch in 2005[3] and later to IBM in 2012.[4] It has since been acquired by SS&C.[5]
In 2005, Dembo founded Zerofootprint Software, a Toronto-based, cleantech software and services company.[6] In the same year, he founded the non-profit Zerofootprint Foundation[7] which won gold in the Climate Change category at the Canadian Environment Awards in 2008.[8] In 2009, Dembo also established the ZERO prize, a one million dollar prize for a design to retrofit a concrete building built between 1945 and 1990.[9]
Awards
In May 2007, Dembo was made a lifetime Fields Institute Fellow.[10] This fellowship is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute, its programs, and to the Canadian mathematical community.[11] Dembo's alma mater, the University of Waterloo, honored Dembo with a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Medal for Professional Achievement in business and climate change, 2007.[12]
In 2009, Dembo was appointed to the Steering Committee of the World Urban Campaign, coordinated by UN-Habitat.[13] In 2008, he received a Green Toronto Award from the City of Toronto for his work with Zerofootprint,[14] as well as a Certificate of Recognition, Champion of Green from the Government of Ontario.[15]
Books
Dembo is the author of three books: Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk, co-authored with Andrew Freeman, published in April 1998; Upside Downside: Simple Rules of Risk Management for the Smart Investor, co-authored with Daniel Stoffman, published in March 2006; and Everything You Wanted to Know About Offsetting But Were Afraid to Ask, co-authored with Clive Davidson and released in May 2007. His latest book, Risk Thinking, will be published in 2021.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Ron S. Dembo Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Algorithmics - Invest in Canada". 20 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ September 2, CB Staff; 2009 (3 September 2009). "Profit 100: Dr. Ron Dembo, founder of Zerofootprint - Canadian Business". Canadian Business - Your Source For Business News. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
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- ^ "The Zerofootprint Foundation · 392 Markham Street, Toronto, ON M6G 2K9". opengovca.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Canadian Environment Awards Announces Winners for 2008". thegreenpages.ca. 4 June 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "The Zero Prize". www.thezeroprize.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Fields Institute Fellows". Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Ron Dembo". boundless.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Recipients of the Alumni Achievement Medal". Engineering. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Pressgroup Holdings Europe S.A. (25 March 2010). "Leading global companies join the World Urban Campaign" (PDF). World Urban Forum Daily News. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "City of Toronto, Zerofootprint launch website to fight climate change". wx.toronto.ca. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Dr. Ron Dembo". Biome Renewables. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
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