Dr. Mark Abdollahian is Chief Executive Officer at ACERTAS and a member of the Tallberg Foundation Board of Directors. He focuses on designing and delivering advanced analytics for data driven decision-making. His global experience spans national policy, corporate strategy, economic development, finance, public-private partnerships, M&A and business process reengineering. Dr. Abdollahian creates, architects and implements enterprise class data and strategy analytics used by the US Government, the World Bank and the United Nations as well as private sector companies worldwide.

Dr. Abdollahian is also a cofounder of Sentia Group, TransResearch Consortium and a Professor at the School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University. In addition to Bachelors degrees from Case Western Reserve University, he holds a M.A. in Foreign and Defense Policy and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Mathematical Modeling from Claremont Graduate University.