Mark is Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Factor Products and Equity Portfolio Management at MSCI. In these roles, he acts as the general manager driving commercial strategy and product development initiatives, for these product lines, across the firm.
Prior to joining MSCI, Mark was a member of the Global Alternative Premia group at AQR Capital Management. He joined AQR from BlackRock where he spent ten years, most recently as a regional executive and Head of Factors for US iShares. In this position Mark was responsible for commercial strategy, client support, product development and marketing activities for a suite of active and index-based ETFs. Before BlackRock, he served as Vice President and Client Portfolio Manager for fundamental growth strategies at Columbia Management Group. Mark began his career at Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Mark is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and in the financial press and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Hedge Fund Alert, The Financial Times among other outlets.
Mark earned an MBA from University of New Hampshire and an ALM with a concentration in Finance from Harvard.