Mr. Jopling founded Jopling, Inc., in March of 1990. Immediately prior to the firm’s formation, he headed Mellon Bank’s merger and acquisition advisory activity in Pittsburgh. Prior to Mellon, he headed corporate development at Allegheny International, a Fortune 500 company. Prior to that, he worked in the strategic planning group of Gulf Oil.
Mark holds a Master’s Degree from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration (University of Virginia) and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Texas at Austin in that institution’s honors interdisciplinary program. He is a founder and past president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, an organization principally for professionals involved in acquisitions and divestitures. He is head of the audit committees on the board of directors of Markovitz Enterprises and Superior Forge and Steel. Mark lives in Franklin Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh, with his wife. Mark has one son in college and another working in the Washington, DC area. |