Mark D. Rothschild

Mr. Rothschild is the Chief Executive Officer of Iron Partners LLC, a Chicago-based multi-strategy, multi-manager fund of hedge funds. He joined Iron in March of 2006 to develop Iron’s institutional marketing strategy and lead its implementation. He led a group of investors that acquired controlling interest in Iron on July 3, 2007.

Prior to Iron Partners Mr. Rothschild was the Managing Partner of Sage Equity Partners LLC which provided strategic and financial advisory services to corporate clients, including: JD Edwards (acquired by PeopleSoft), Applied Films Corporation (acquired by Applied Materials), Ball Aerospace Systems Engineering Group, Quicklink, IDES, C-COM and Webb Interactive Services. He served on the Board of Directors of eTrinsic, C-COM and Webb Interactive Services.

In 1996, Mr. Rothschild was named Co-Chief Executive Officer of International Lanaguage Engineering Corporation (“ILE”), a Boulder, CO software localization and translation services company. In 1997 he led the recapitalization of ILE by a prominent NYC private equity firm. He led the management team that grew ILE from 150 employees in 1996 to $24 million in revenues with 250 employees operating in five locations by 1999 when he left the company. ILE was merged with its largest U.S. competitor which was then was acquired by Lionbridge Technologies in 2000.

Mr. Rothschild served as a Vice President in the Corporate Finance Group of Kemper Securities (which became EVEREN and was acquired by First Union). Prior to joining Kemper in 1994, Mr. Rothschild was a Founder and President of Memory Clearing Corporation, a venture capital backed startup company in San Francisco formed in 1989 to create a futures market in semiconductor memory products.

Mr. Rothschild was a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange from 1978 through 1989 and a member of the Pacific Stock Exchange from 1983 to 1989. He was elected to the Board of Governors of the Pacific Stock Exchange in 1987 and served through 1989.

From June 1976 through October 1978 he worked for Harris Bank in Chicago (now owned by Bank of Montreal) where he was responsible for commercial banking relationships to a wide range of corporate clients in the Midwest.

Mr. Rothschild holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Economics from Iowa State University.