Ron Dembo
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Ron Samuel Dembo is an academic and entrepreneur.
Academia[edit]
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From 1976 to 1986, Dembo served as a professor at Yale University. During this time, he held joint appointments in both the Department of Computer Science and the School of Management. Additionally, he served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dembo's scholarly contributions encompass a diverse range of subjects, including finance and mathematical optimization. Notably, he has also garnered several patents in fields such as computational finance, climate change, and software engineering.
Entrepreneurship[edit]
Dembo was founder and CEO of Algorithmics Incorporated.[1] Algorithmics was sold to Fitch in 2005[2] and later to IBM in 2012.[3] It has since been acquired by SS&C.[4]
In 2005, Dembo founded Zerofootprint Software, a Toronto-based, cleantech software and services company.[5] In the same year, he founded the non-profit Zerofootprint Foundation[6] which won gold in the Climate Change category at the Canadian Environment Awards in 2008.[7] 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.[8]
He currently sits on a number of boards and is a member of the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee Canada and was appointed to the Steering Committee of the World Urban Campaign, coordinated by UN-Habitat.[9]
Awards[edit]
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[edit]
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, was published in 2021 (ISBN 978-1665707008).
References[edit]
- ^ "Algorithmics - Invest in Canada". 20 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Profit 100: Dr. Ron Dembo, founder of Zerofootprint - Canadian Business". Canadian Business - Your Source For Business News. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Hubler, David (1 September 2011). "IBM brings another analytics company under Big Blue umbrella". Washington Technology. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "SS&C to Acquire Algorithmics from IBM". FinSMEs. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Lohr, Steve (15 May 2007). "World mayors get software to track carbon imprint (Published 2007)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "HuffPost".
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Leading global companies join the World Urban Campaign" (PDF). World Urban Forum Daily News. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "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.