Marc C.

Marc draws on more than 30 years of banking and general business experience in designing and delivering training courses to corporate clients covering a variety of sectors (including banking and insurance). He has extensive training experience across Southeast Europe (Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Greece and Turkey), the Mideast (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman), Africa (South Africa and Nigeria) and Asia (Brunei, Sri Lanka), where he has delivered tailored/open courses as well as (non-audit) papers for various professional qualifications. His areas of focus include treasury, business valuations, strategic, financial and performance management, management accounting, corporate governance and credit/financial analysis. Marc earned his BA (magna cum laude) at Brown University (USA) and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. He has an MSc from the London School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau). He worked for 10 years at Citibank/Citicorp in Switzerland in various capacities: credit analyst, corporate relationship manager, and risk manager in private banking. He moved to Romania where he was an in-house advisor in the Ion Tiriac Group (negotiating the investment of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Ion Tiriac Bank, the first private sector bank established in Romania after the fall of communism); he subsequently managed the Deloitte consulting group in Bucharest, worked on a private equity fund project with Credit Anstalt Investment Bank (Austria), and then was engaged by Raiffeisen Investment AG in leading sell-side privatization mandates for the Romanian state. He also provides general business consulting, valuation and advisory services to private business owners in Romania, Hungary and Switzerland. His work included strategy workshops organized and conducted for the board of directors and senior management of a publicly-listed Romanian commercial bank. His training activities have been delivered both on a free-lance basis and under contracts with training firms, both privately-owned and publicly-listed. As the founder and CEO of an IT company observed about one of Marc’s programs (delivered in Sri Lanka): “The simplicity and clarity with which a complex theory was brought to life. Easily the best I have experienced in finance during my long career.”