Mark Abdollahian, Executive VP
Dr. Abdollahian’s 16 years of experience spans international political risk assessment, policy development and public-private sector management employing political and economic analysis.
He architects, designs and implements political economy software models in use with the US Government, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, PACOM, CENTCOM, AFRICOM, Joint Warfare Analysis Center, National Defense University, DARPA, the World Bank, the United Nations as well as various private sector companies. In 2004, the US Defense Intelligence Agency selected Dr. Abdollahian’s software application, Senturion™, as the world’s premier predictive analysis capability.
He is a Professor at the School of Politics & Economics, Claremont Graduate University. In addition to Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science, History, and French from Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Abdollahian holds a Master’s degree in Foreign and Defense Policy and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Econometrics from Claremont Graduate University.
He is author of Power Transitions: Strategies for the 21st Century, several articles on computational modeling and foreign policy crisis decision making and lecture to audiences worldwide on predicting politics.
Dr. Abdollahian is a Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sentia Group, a predictive analytics service & software solutions firm for formulating and implementing strategy.