Mark Itskovitz

Mark is the Chairman of the 2008 Babson Forum on Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Prior to entering the Babson MBA Entrepreneurship program, Mark was a senior manager in a Detroit family business where he focused on the start-up and build out of the largest independent commercial hotel laundry operation in Michigan. Mark started his career as a Global Fixed Income Bond Trader and Portfolio Analyst with Los Angeles-based Payden & Rygel Investment Management, one of the largest, privately-owned global investment managers with over $50 billion under management. In the community, Mark contributed his time to the Anti-Defamation League in Santa Barbara, California.

Mark serves as the Executive Vice President of Babson College’s Graduate Student Council and he was selected to be a member of the Babson College Presidential Inauguration Steering Committee. Mark is active in Babson’s Coaching for Leadership & Teamwork Program that provides undergraduate students with constructive developmental coaching on their leadership, teamwork, decision-making, listening and oral communication skills. Mark is a member of the 2008 MBA Case Competition Team in Ethical Leadership.

Mark is a 2009 candidate for a Master of Business Administration degree in the entrepreneurship program at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan with a double major in Finance and Management Information Systems. He also holds a General Course degree from the London School of Economics.