Dr. Ron Dembo - Founder and CEO

Dr. Ron Dembo is the Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint, an organization dedicated to a mass reduction in our collective environmental impact. Zerofootprint provides software and services to individuals, governments and corporations that measures and manages carbon footprint, and engages employees and citizens worldwide in combating climate change.

Dr. Dembo is also the founder and former CEO and President of Algorithmics Incorporated, growing it from a start-up to the largest enterprise risk-management software company in the world, with offices in fifteen countries, over 70% of the world’s top 100 banks as clients, and consistent recognition as one of Canada’s top 50 best-managed companies. Prior to this, he had a distinguished ten-year career at Yale University, where he was cross-appointed in Computer Sciences and Operations Research.

In 2007, Dr. Dembo was made a lifetime Fields Institute Fellow. This fellowship is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute, its programs, and to the Canadian mathematical community. He has authored over sixty technical papers on finance and mathematical optimization and three books, and holds a number of patents in Computational Finance and Software for Climate Change.

He currently sits on a number of boards, and is a member of the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee Canada and the UN HABITAT World Urban Campaign.

John Anzin - Chief Financial Officer

John joined Zerofootprint after holding senior financial roles at Fidelity Information Services and Oasis Technology, a privately held software concern. At Fidelity he had financial responsibility for the $100 million annual revenue international business unit and managed a number of acquisitions. He started his career at IBM Canada followed by Kraft Canada. John is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business (York University), a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University, and is currently completing his CPA (Delaware) designation.