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 is also a partner in a natural gas trading fund, Torsion Technologies, LLC.
Previously Borish was chief strategist of Quad Group and its affiliated companies. He assisted traders develop a methodology to enhance their performance by serving as a trading coach.
Borish was founding partner and second-in-command at Tudor Investment Corporation, where he was Director of Research for 10 years. He was founding Trustee of 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 He was also a founding investor in Charitybuzz.
During his career he served as Chairman of OneChicago Exchange and as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade. He formerly worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he monitored foreign exchange futures and options until 1985. He was a staff member of the U.S. Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (Brady Commission) for the U.S. Department of the Treasury which was tasked with studying the stock market decline of October 1987 He has been an IFM Trustee since 1991. He served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from March 1992 to March 1998, and again from March 2004 to March 2014.