Mark Zurack

Professor (by contract)

Finance and Economics

Adjunct Professor

Executives in Residence Program

BS, SUNY-Binghamton, 1978; MBA, Cornell, 1980

Joined CBS in 2002

Mark Zurack

Office
211 Uris

Phone
212-854-7595

E-mail
mz2015@columbia.edu

Fax
212-932-8614

Teaching and research interest

After an 18-year career at Goldman Sachs, Mark A. Zurack retired from the firm at the end of 2001. He teaches at Columbia Business School and Cornell University as an adjunct professor. Professor Zurack joined Goldman Sachs in 1983 and started the equity derivatives research group. He later assumed a broader leadership role in equity derivatives, comanaging 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.

Courses taught