Mark has three decades of experience in trading and investments including posts as Head of Risk Management for Union Bank of Switzerland in New York, Head of Capital Management for the Zurich Group in Switzerland, Chief Investment Officer for Gerling General in Cologne, Germany, and Chief Investment Officer of Meadowvale Partners, a multi-strategy hedge fund based in New York. Mark has broad interests in the international debt and equity markets, as well as specialized interests within the commodities, natural resources, and energy sectors. Mark has BA, MA degrees in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University, an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and holds the CFA and CMT charters.