J. Mark 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.
Raymond A. Ojerholm joined Jopling in 1993. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner and was previously the senior manager of Arthur Andersen & Co.’s Enterprise Group practice in Pittsburgh (with five years in that firm’s Boston office, as well). Ray brings fourteen years of “Big Six” public accounting experience to Jopling with a special emphasis on:
- business, financial, accounting and tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures,
- financial forecasts and projections,
- systems and internal controls analyses and
- financial due diligence reviews.
Mr. Ojerholm holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Babson College. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Ray lives in Franklin Park with. He has a daughter in college and a son in medical school.