Marshall Parke, BA ’76
Marshall Parke, BA ’76
Co-Chair, Elliott School Board of Advisors; Senior Partner, Western Venture Partners
Joined Spring 2015
Marshall Parke is currently the senior partner of venture capital firm Western Venture Partners. He was previously the vice chairman and managing partner at Lexington Partners, the largest buyer of secondary interests of private equity assets globally.
Prior to joining Lexington in 1998, Mr. Parke founded and built Manistee Ltd, an Asian-based merchant banking firm. Manistee acted as a financial advisor to major corporations operating in emerging markets in Asia, including Bechtel, BP, Jardine Matheson, Maruha, and Colgate, and started and built six businesses off plan in the fields of semiconductor assembly, property development, and advertising/product promotion.
Early in his career, Mr. Parke was a banker at HSBC and the Chase Manhattan Bank. He holds a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University, an MBA from Thunderbird Global School of Management, and participated in Harvard's Owner President Management Program. Mr. Parke is the founder and Chairman of Thunderbird's SHARE Fellowship program which provides scholarships and mentoring to outstanding students from emerging countries around the world.