Virginia Reynolds Parker

Ms. Virginia R.
Parker, CFA, is a Managing Member & Chief Investment Officer at Parker Global Strategies LLC, a Member at CFA Institute, a Member at International Association For Quantitative Finance and a Member at The New York Society of Security Analysts, Inc. Ms. Parker’s professional experience in the investment industry is broad, including research, portfolio management, and risk management.
She has expertise in both traditional and alternative investment strategies.
Ms. Parker is well known for developing industry-recognized performance benchmarks for foreign exchange.
Her research is widely published, and she has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
In 1995, Ms. Parker founded Parker Global Strategies in 1995 to specialize in customizing alternative investment strategies along with risk management oversight for institutions and their clients.
Ms. Parker has been involved in investment management since 1981 when she began managing equity and fixed income investments.
She has served as trustee and managed assets for a family office since 1984.
From 1988 until 1995, Ms. Parker was with Ferrell Capital Management, a company she helped build from a start-up into a successful alternative investment and risk management firm.
She was a partner, served as Managing Director of Research & Risk Management, and was a member of the Advisory Board.
Prior to joining Ferrell, Ms. Parker served a Chief Investment Officer of a family office and has managed equity portfolios since 1982.
Ms. Parker launched her career at Johnson & Higgins where she was an account manager for oil & gas exploration and production companies.
Ms. Parker graduated with an AB in Economics and Political Science from Duke University in 1980.
She is a 2003 graduate of the OPM program at Harvard Business School (HBS) and a 2017 graduate of HBS’s Women on Boards program.
Ms. Parker is a Chartered Financial Analyst.