Mark Romoff
Former President & CEO
Ontario Centres of Excellence
Mark Romoff joined the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc. as President and CEO in fall 2004. He is a career foreign service professional with a strong track record for advancing the competitive interests and opportunities for Canadian companies internationally.
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. In 1996, he became Consul General in Buffalo, New York, where he helped establish and implement the basic policies governing cross-border relations between U.S. and Canada.
In 2002 Mr. Romoff was seconded to Industry Canada as Executive Director of the Ontario Region. His responsibilities included building the export readiness of Ontario companies and encouraging foreign investment in Ontario.
As President and CEO of Ontario Centres of Excellence, Mr. Romoff is leading an organization at the centre of Ontario’s innovation and economic development agenda. Through its comprehensive suite of programs and strategic partnerships with business and government, OCE Inc. drives the commercialization of industry and academic collaborations and the development and deployment of the next generation of talent in key technologies across a range of market sectors including communications and information technology, earth and environmental technologies, energy, materials and manufacturing and photonics.
Mr. Romoff has a B.A. 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.
Impact Participation History
Leadership Conference Stump the Speaker Lead (2006)