Peter F. Borish

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Peter F. Borish

Position Chairman and CEO, Computer Trading Corporation and Strategy Consultant, CIBC
Job Title
Trustee

Peter Borish is Chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation, an investment and advisory firm whose largest consulting client is the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). He is also a partner in Adam Hoffman's natural gas options trading team at Torsion Technologies, LLC. Borish is an advisor to Norbury Partners, a recently launched minority-owned discretionary global macro hedge fund. He also was a member Market Risk Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) during the pandemic.

Previously Borish was chief strategist of Quad Group and its affiliated companies. In his role, Borish was engaged in recruiting new talent for Quad and working with the founding partners on business strategy. In addition, he helped traders develop a methodology to enhance their performance by serving as a trading coach. Borish is chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation (CTC), and a current investor and advisor to ValueStream Ventures. 

Borish was founding partner and second-in-command at Tudor Investment Corporation, where he was Director of Research for 10 years. Along with Paul Tudor Jones and Glenn Dubin, he founded the Robin Hood Foundation in 1988, which funds projects that alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City.  He also has engaged in other substantial philanthropy and nonprofit work, as a founding board member and Chairman of Math for America and was Chairman of the nonprofit Foundation for the Study of Cycles. He was also a founding investor in Charitybuzz. He is also a mayoral appointee to the New York City Department of Youth & Community Development.

During his career he served as Chairman of OneChicago Exchange and as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade. He formerly worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he monitored foreign exchange futures and options until 1985. He was a staff member of the U.S. Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (Brady Commission) for the U.S. Department of the Treasury which was tasked with studying the stock market decline of October 1987 and making recommendations.

Borish regularly appears on Bloomberg and CNBC, to name a few. He has been an IFM Trustee since 1991. He served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from March 1992 to March 1998, and again from March 2004 to March 2014.