J. Mark Jopling

mjopling@joplinginc.com

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.

Raymond A. Ojerholm

rojerholm@joplinginc.com

Mr. 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:

financial forecasts and projections,

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 his wife and daughter. He also has a son in college.