Mark Abbate:  

After high school, I attended El Camino College then on to California State University, Long Beach, where I earned a BS in Business Administration with a Major in Accounting in 1977. I was then recruited by the Los Angeles office of Touche Ross & Company, an international accounting, tax and consulting firm now known as Deloitte, where I became a Certified Public Accountant in 1980. After three years with Touche Ross, I joined Home Savings of America in Los Angeles, where I advanced through financial leadership positions into senior management over 19 years until 1998 after Home Savings was sold. From 1998-2000, I served as chief financial officer for two early internet companies that ultimately dissolved. I remained in the South Bay, got married and purchased a home in Torrance in the early 1980s, and welcomed our daughter in 1990. As a native of Connecticut, I became aware of a position ...Expand for more