Marcus A. Burnett Email & Phone Number

Marcus A. Burnett is the Chief Executive of SOFR Academy, Inc. The Firm provides robust transparency for capital markets through proprietary benchmark credit spreads USD-AXI and USD-FXI, which are published each business day. The Firm’s panel of advisors include academics from institutions such as Harvard University, the University of California Berkeley, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford, London Business School and Tsinghua University. The Firm's investors include leading Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by Palantir Technologies founder Joe Lonsdale. As well as Robert B. Litterman who spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs where he co-developed the Black–Litterman model together with Fischer Black which has become one of the standard models widely used by investors around the world to optimize portfolios.SOFR Academy is a member of the American Economic Association (AEA), the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA), the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade (BAFT) which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Bankers Association (ABA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) and the Bretton Woods Committee (BWC). For more information, please visit www.SOFR.org.Marcus' views have been cited by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, American Banker, the Financial Times, the International Financial Law Review, Risk.net, and the Global Association of Risk Professionals, among others. He has presented at industry conferences, authored articles for leading industry publications, and is an active member of the Financial Services community. Marcus has extensive experience in assisting banking and capital markets firms across a range of topics including organized venue trading, funding and liquidity, stress testing (CCAR / DFAST), asset liability management, funds transfer pricing, capital optimization, electronic trading, derivatives reform, deposit and pricing strategy, regulatory change and technology implementation. Marcus was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Technology Sydney. He has completed Executive programs in Leadership and Organizational Change Management from Harvard and Columbia Universities respectively. Marcus is a member of the American Australian Association established by Sir Keith Murdoch in 1948, and he resides in New York City.

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