Peter F. Borish
Peter F. Borish
Position Chairman and CEO, Computer Trading Corporation
Job Title
Trustee
Legendary trader 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 also serves on the Board of CIBC US. He also serves on the Board of Laconic Infrastructure Partners, (PBC)
In addition, Borish is a partner in a natural gas investment portfolio program at Torsion Technologies and a Partner of Quantrarian Asset Management. He also is a current investor and advisor to 444 Capital, the D'Amelio family fund. During the pandemic, Borish served as a member of the Market Risk Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Previously through CTC, Borish was a chief strategist of Quad Group and its affiliated companies. In that role, Borish recruited new talent for Quad and worked 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 was a 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 also was a mayoral appointee to the New York City Department of Youth & Community Development.
During his career, he served as Chairman of OneChicago Exchange, as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he monitored foreign exchange futures and options. He was a staff member of the U.S. Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (aka the Brady Commission) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury which was tasked with studying and making recommendations in response to the October 1987 stock market crash.
Borish regularly appears in the media 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 from March 2004 to March 2014.