Mark joined the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc. as President and CEO in fall 2004. A key partner with industry, universities, colleges, research hospitals, investors and governments, OCE drives economic prosperity through support for the development and successful transfer of new technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace. OCE enables Ontario companies to succeed in the knowledge-based global economy by training, developing and connecting the next generation of Ontario innovators and entrepreneurs. Mr. Romoff is leading an organization at the centre of Ontario's innovation and economic development agenda.

Mr. Romoff has a strong track record of advancing the competitive interests and opportunities for Canadian companies internationally. Before joining OCE, Mr. Romoff was Executive Director of the federal Department of Industry, where he was responsible for building the export readiness of Ontario companies, encouraging foreign investment in Ontario and strengthening the global competitiveness of industry across the province.

From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Romoff served as Consul General in Buffalo, New York, where he helped establish and implement the framework and policies governing cross-border relations between the United States and Canada - the world's largest and most diverse bilateral trade relationship. Over the course of his foreign-service career, Mr. Romoff served as Commercial Counsellor in Nigeria, Mexico and Malaysia. From 1992 to 1996, he was Minister-Counsellor in the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo with responsibility for Canada's trade, investment and science and technology relationship with Japan.

Mr. Romoff has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from McGill University, and a Masters in Applied Science from the University of Waterloo. Mark and his wife, Shelley, live in Toronto with their daughter, Alana.