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MARK LATHAM |
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(604) 608-9779 |
| Email |
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mark[at]votermedia.org |
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1755 Robson Street #469, Vancouver BC, Canada V6G 3B7 |
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| EXPERIENCE |
| 2006 - present |
VoterMedia.org |
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Founder; Project Director |
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Building a voter funded media system to improve accountability of elected leaders in democracies and corporations -- see
Global Voter Media Platform.
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| 2007 - present |
ProxyDemocracy |
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Director |
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Nonprofit organization that helps individual investors vote their shares and evaluate voting policies of institutional investors -- see
Proxy Voting Brand Competition.
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| 1996 - 2007 |
The Corporate Monitoring Project |
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Founder; Corporate Governance Consultant |
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Developing and promoting a new approach to improving shareowner oversight of corporate management. |
| 1994 - 1995 |
Merrill Lynch
(Tokyo)
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Director; Head of Quantitative Equity Trading Group |
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Created and traded quantitative strategies in Japanese equity and derivative instruments, including stocks, warrants and futures. |
| 1992 - 1994 |
Salomon Brothers
(New York)
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Vice President; Head of Risk Management Department |
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Firmwide risk measurement – model development, system integration, risk pricing, forecasting, monitoring, validation. |
| 1989 - 1992 |
Salomon Brothers Asia
(Tokyo)
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Vice President |
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Built arbitrage trading models and systems. Pricing and risk management of equity, fixed-income and currency derivatives. |
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University of California at Berkeley
(School of Business Administration)
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| 1984 - 1989 |
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Assistant Professor of Finance |
| 1982 - 1984 |
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Acting Assistant Professor of Finance |
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- Taught courses in security markets (stocks, bonds, options, futures), fundamental valuation, arbitrage, risk and return, investment management, corporate finance. |
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- Won 1984 Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teacher Award. |
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- Research on information, risk, and security pricing. |
| 1980 |
Strategic Planning Associates
(Washington, DC)
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Summer Associate |
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Worked in the finance group of this business consulting firm. Acquisition studies, inflation accounting, dividend and debt policy for Fortune 500 companies. |
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| EDUCATION |
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M.I.T. Sloan School of Management
(Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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| 1984 |
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Ph.D. in Finance |
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Supervised by Robert C. Merton and Fischer Black. Thesis: “Essays on Information and Equilibrium in Security Markets” |
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University of British Columbia
(Vancouver, Canada)
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| 1978 |
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M.Sc. in Business Administration |
| 1974 |
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B.Sc. in Mathematics |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
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(most are available at
votermedia.org/publications)
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| February 2009 |
Global Voter Media Platform |
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Working paper |
| April 2007 |
Voter-Funded Media: Governance Reform for Democracies and Corporations |
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Working paper |
| January 2007 |
Proxy Voting Brand Competition |
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Journal of Investment Management, vol. 5, no. 1
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| May 2005 |
Vote Your Stock |
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Working paper |
| April 2003 |
Democracy and Infomediaries |
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Corporate Governance - An International Review, vol. 11, no. 2
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| June 2000 |
The Internet Will Drive Corporate Monitoring |
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Corporate Governance International, vol. 3, no. 2
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(French translation in Gouvernance - Revue Internationale, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 2000.)
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| January 2000 |
Corporate Governance in Japan: A Future Scenario |
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Japan's Security Analysts Journal, vol. 38, no. 1
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| September 1999 |
Collective Action for Dispersed Shareowners |
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Corporate Governance International, vol. 2, no. 3
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| January 1999 |
The Corporate Monitoring Firm |
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Corporate Governance - An International Review, vol. 7, no. 1
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(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.)
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| Sept/Oct 1998 |
Corporate Monitoring: New Shareholder Power Tool |
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Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 54, no. 5
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| Sept/Oct 1997 |
Proposed: A Governance ‘Monitor’ |
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The Corporate Board, vol. 18, no. 106
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(Chinese translation in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics’ Foreign Economies and Management, Sept/Oct 1998 issue.)
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| June 1989 |
The Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Supershares |
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Journal of Finance, vol. 44, no. 2
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| March 1986 |
Informational Efficiency and Information Subsets |
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Journal of Finance, vol. 41, no. 1
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| OTHER |
| 2009 - 2011 |
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Investor Advisory Committee
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Member representing individual investors |
| 2008 - present |
VoterMedia Finance Blog
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Author
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| 2007 - present |
VoterMedia Democracy Blog
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Author
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Strata Corporation BCS 460
(Condominium "The Classico")
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| 2005 - 2006 |
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Treasurer |
| Fall 2004 |
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President |
| 1999 - 2007 |
International Corporate Governance Network
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Member
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American Association of Individual Investors
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Life Member
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Consumers Union
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Life Member
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Languages
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English, Japanese and French
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| 1993 |
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1st place, Japanese Speech Contest, Japan Society (New York) |
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Citizen
of Canada, USA and UK
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(Updated as of November 2009)
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