Editing Ron Dembo (section)

== Entrepreneurship ==
Dembo was founder and CEO of [[Algorithmics Incorporated]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} Algorithmics was sold to Fitch in 2005{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} and later to IBM in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hubler|first=David|date=1 September 2011|title=IBM brings another analytics company under Big Blue umbrella|work=Washington Technology|url=https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/09/01/ibm-algorithmics-buy.aspx|access-date=2021-03-01}}</ref> It has since been acquired by SS&C.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-26|title=SS&C to Acquire Algorithmics from IBM|url=https://www.finsmes.com/2019/09/ssc-to-acquire-algorithmics-from-ibm.html|access-date=2021-03-01|website=FinSMEs|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2005, Dembo founded [[Zerofootprint]] Software, a Toronto-based, [[cleantech]] software and services company.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lohr|first=Steve|date=2007-05-15|title=World mayors get software to track carbon imprint (Published 2007)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/technology/15iht-carbon.1.5713682.html|access-date=2021-03-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In the same year, he founded the non-profit Zerofootprint Foundation<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Zerofootprint Foundation · 392 Markham Street, Toronto, ON M6G 2K9|url=https://opengovca.com/corporation/4549058|access-date=2021-03-01|website=opengovca.com}}</ref> which won gold in the Climate Change category at the [[Canadian Environment Awards]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-06-04|title=Canadian Environment Awards Announces Winners for 2008|url=https://thegreenpages.ca/2008/06/04/canadian_environment_awards_an_3/|access-date=2021-03-01|website=thegreenpages.ca|language=en}}</ref> In 2009, Dembo also established the ZERO prize, a one million dollar prize for a design to retrofit a concrete building built between 1945 and 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Zero Prize|url=http://www.thezeroprize.com/|access-date=2021-03-01|website=www.thezeroprize.com}}</ref>

He currently sits on a number of boards,{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} is a member of the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee Canada,{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} and was appointed to the Steering Committee of the [[World Urban Campaign]], coordinated by [[UN-Habitat]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}