"We create the world we live in each and every day”
Mark Abdollahian
Dr. Abdollahian is Chief Executive Officer at ACERTAS. He focuses on designing and delivering decision intelligence with data driven decision-making. His global experience spans national policy, corporate strategy, economic development, finance, public-private partnerships, M&A and business process reengineering. He 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.
In 1997, he helped designed the BAE-GEC Marconi merger strategy, creating the second largest defense company in the world. Since 2000, he has advised the World Bank on country assistance strategies, loan conditionality and program design across Africa and Asia. In 2005, the US Government selected Dr. Abdollahian’s software, Senturion™, as the world’s premier strategy capability. Since 2005, he has been awarded multiple DARPA and US Government contracts on delivering next generation innovations today on human, social and economic behavioral modeling. Dr. Abdollahian is author of dozens of articles and two books on decision intelligence across business, politics and economics, lectures to audiences worldwide.
Dr. Abdollahian is also a cofounder of Sentia Group, TransResearch Consortium, a Board Member for the Tallberg Foundation and Clinical Professor at the School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University. In addition to Bachelors degrees from Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Abdollahian holds a M.A. in Foreign and Defense Policy and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Mathematical Modeling from Claremont Graduate University.