(Chief Compliance Officer, Marquam Capital, Portland, Oregon) Blake Goud is the Community Leader for the Thomson Reuters Islamic Finance Gateway community where he provides a critical analysis of the global Islamic finance industry for IFG community events and publications. Outside of Islamic finance, Goud is the Chief Compliance Officer for Marquam Capital, a registered investment advisor, and HP Securities, a FINRA-member broker dealer, both based in Portland, Oregon, USA. He holds the FINRA Series 7, 24, 63, 65, 79 and 99 licenses. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2003. He recently presented a paper exploring a musharaka-based model for renewable energy financing in off-grid areas at the 9th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance (ICIEF) in Istanbul, Turkey. This research followed on earlier work presented at the Eighth Harvard Islamic Finance Forum in 2008 on profit-and-loss sharing Islamic microfinance that incorporates the Grameen Bank’s group lending model.
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