Ron Dembo

Ron Dembo has led Canada’s seventh-largest software firm to the lion’s share of the worldwide market for risk management software for large financial institutions.

Canada’s Prime Minister recently honoured Algorithmics for its selection as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Private Companies, following on Dr. Dembo’s selection as the Ernst & Young Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner for Financial Services (1988). As well, his Seeing Tomorrow: Weighing Financial Risk in Everyday Life, co-authored with Andrew Freeman, was published in May, 1998, and has been translated in German, Japanese and Chinese.

Before Founding Algorithmics, Dr. Dembo created and managed a group at Goldman Sachs responsible for fixed income optimization modeling. From 1976 to 1986, he served as Assistant and Associate Professor of Operations Research in Computer Science at Yale University and as a visiting Professor for Operations Research at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Dembo holds several degrees, including B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1969), a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1972), and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Waterloo, Ontario (1975). He also received a Diploma in French Civilization and Language from the Sorbonne University in 1972.