Biography:
Mark has over 25 years of experience in the provision of a broad array of sophisticated financial services
throughout LATAM, twenty of which Argentina-related. Over the years, he has been involved in
transactions totaling about US$ 6 billion in value.
He started his career as a commercial banker with Irving Trust (now Bank of New York Mellon) where he
graduated from its prestigious Professional Bank Officer Training Program and became a lending officer in
its LATAM Group. Later he joined BGN, First Boston’s (now Credit Suisse’s) Argentine investment banking
partner, the leading advisory team in the country at that time. Over a decade, he worked on general
advisory mandates, M&A deals, as well as equity, debt & hybrid issues – many of them milestone
transactions. Subsequently, he led the start-up capital markets unit at Cohen Sociedad de Bolsa (a
brokerage firm) which achieved a leading position in structured finance public market issues.
More recently, he had been working independently as a consultant, pursued personal interests and
forayed into academia: He has taught various finance classes at a number of local universities, and is
currently an Associate Professor at Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy. As Director of Kennedy’s MBA
+ MOT program, he achieved first-round accreditation by the CONEAU in a year’s time. There, he also led
the drive for the establishment of the Kennedy Institute for Enterprise Development. Internationally, over
the past years he has been a Professor of Corporate Finance in graduate programs at the Universidad
Nacional de Asuncion’s College of Economic Sciences (Paraguay).
He has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a major in Government and a Minor in Computer Science from
Georgetown University (Washington DC - ´86). He earned his Master in Business Administration (MBA)
from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business (New York - ´94), with Beta Gamma Sigma
Honors.
Beyond his professional endeavors, he serves as Trustee of the British Hospital of Buenos Aires.
Mark has over 25 years of experience in the provision of a broad array of sophisticated financial services
throughout LATAM, twenty of which Argentina-related. Over the years, he has been involved in
transactions totaling about US$ 6 billion in value.
He started his career as a commercial banker with Irving Trust (now Bank of New York Mellon) where he
graduated from its prestigious Professional Bank Officer Training Program and became a lending officer in
its LATAM Group. Later he joined BGN, First Boston’s (now Credit Suisse’s) Argentine investment banking
partner, the leading advisory team in the country at that time. Over a decade, he worked on general
advisory mandates, M&A deals, as well as equity, debt & hybrid issues – many of them milestone
transactions. Subsequently, he led the start-up capital markets unit at Cohen Sociedad de Bolsa (a
brokerage firm) which achieved a leading position in structured finance public market issues.
More recently, he had been working independently as a consultant, pursued personal interests and
forayed into academia: He has taught various finance classes at a number of local universities, and is
currently an Associate Professor at Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy. As Director of Kennedy’s MBA
+ MOT program, he achieved first-round accreditation by the CONEAU in a year’s time. There, he also led
the drive for the establishment of the Kennedy Institute for Enterprise Development. Internationally, over
the past years he has been a Professor of Corporate Finance in graduate programs at the Universidad
Nacional de Asuncion’s College of Economic Sciences (Paraguay).
He has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a major in Government and a Minor in Computer Science from
Georgetown University (Washington DC - ´86). He earned his Master in Business Administration (MBA)
from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business (New York - ´94), with Beta Gamma Sigma
Honors.
Beyond his professional endeavors, he serves as Trustee of the British Hospital of Buenos Aires.
Mark A. Chlapowski
