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Mark Zurack

Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
Finance Division
Areas of Advising:
Capital Markets, Portfolio Construction, Risk Management & Quantitative Research
Mark Zurack
Areas of Expertise
Asset Management, Financial Engineering
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Office: 782 Kravis
Phone: (212) 8547595
E-mail: [email protected]

Mark A. Zurack teaches Capital Markets and Investments, Equity Derivatives and Equity Markets and Products at Columbia Business School. Mark is currently on the Board of Directors of the Binghamton University Foundation and also serves on the Boards of the Alzheimer's Association, Teach For America, Upper West Success Academy, ETC, Southampton Bath and Tennis and the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Program. Prior to coming to Columbia, Professor Zurack worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years. He joined GS in 1983 and started the equity derivatives research group. He later assumed a broader leadership role in equity derivatives, co-managing the product in both North America and Asia and leading the effort to cross-market equity derivatives products to high-net-worth individuals. He became a partner in 1994 and a managing director in 1996. Between 1998 and 2001, Professor Zurack served on the board of directors at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He received his CFA in 1983, his MBA from Cornell in 1980 and his BS from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1978. Areas of interest: capital markets, sales and trading issues, portfolio construction, risk management and quantitative research.

Education
BS, SUNY-Binghamton, 1978; MBA, Cornell, 1980
Joined CBS
2002

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B7306: Capital Markets & Investments
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B7309: Derivatives
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B8468: ESG Equity Investing
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B8309: Derivatives
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