Mark E. Axelrod MBA, CPA is currently the Vice President of Regulatory Reporting for Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University in 1973 and a Masters of Business Administration from Pace University in 1978 Mark joined the Public Accounting Firm of Oppenheim, Appel, Dixon & Co. which at that time was one of the foremost accounting and auditing firms for the broker/dealer industry.

After five years with OAD, during which Mark earned his CPA certificate, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Adler Coleman & Co., the fifth largest specialist on the New York Stock Exchange. Mark was instrumental in developing the carrying and clearing subsidiary of Adler Coleman, which at the time of its sale cleared for over 30 introducing broker/dealers which represented over 3 million customer accounts.

Mark went on to be a general partner at Wagner Stott Mercator and then Vice President of Operations at U.S. Clearing. In his thirty years in broker/dealer operations Mark has served on the board of The National Society of Compliance Professions and for five years was an instructor of Stock Brokerage Accounting at the New York Institute of Finance.