History
Based in the United States, The Signal Group was founded in 2005 on the premise that applying expertise and key methodologies from competitive intelligence, corporate strategy and sophisticated economic assessment provide senior policymakers and institutional investors with the improved ‘signal-to-noise’ ratio needed to reduce risks and maximize opportunities in emerging markets.
Since then, the Group has developed close partnerships with leading institutions in the academic, business, government and media sectors, and helped inform major investment and strategic decisions for clients operating in these fast-changing market environments.
In 2011, due to increasing demand for the Group’s assessments - and in particular those regarding China’s economic and political development - the firm launched EmergingSignals, a subscription-only insights and data service designed for individual and group accounts.
EmergingSignals: China, to be followed by services for India and Brazil, ensures that subscribers understand not only what is happening, but why it is happening, and what it means.
Leadership
Christopher T. Mark Jr.
Christopher T. Mark Jr. was Director of Corporate Strategy in the Office of the CEO at SAP, the world’s leading business software firm, with more than 50,000 employees and 100,000 customers worldwide.
Mr. Mark worked previously with The Boston Consulting Group and The Wall Street Journal. His extensive China experience includes service as an editor with The Asian Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong. In addition, he was a key contributor to two bestselling management books published by Harvard Business School Press: Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, and Globality: Competing With Everyone from Everywhere for Everything.
He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, New York University’s Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics, and the Institut des Hauts Études Économiques in Paris.
Christopher T. Mark Sr.
Prior to forming The Signal Group in 2005, Mr. Mark was a senior economist with the U.S. Government responsible for preparing assessments on China for the President of the United States and other principal decision makers. He was a contributor to The President’s Daily Brief under four U.S. administrations.
During 30 years of federal service, he served as an international economist at the U.S. Treasury Department; as Assistant U.S. Treasury Representative in Paris, France; and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was involved in developing the international accords that became the dispute settlement provisions of the World Trade Organization.
He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Princeton University, where he was Winston Spencer Churchill Fellow in International Affairs.
An assessment titled “The China Impact,” jointly produced by The Signal Group and Oxford Economics, formed the core of high-profile Congressional testimony on Sino-US trade by the President of the U.S.-China Business Council.
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