Gerry Parsky

American financier and public servant

Gerald L. Parsky (born 1942) is an American financier and former public servant. He is chairman of Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles–based private investment firm managing over $2.0 billion of private equity capital.

Parsky was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1942 to Jewish parents who were unable to attend college because of the depression. For this reason, Mr. Parsky's parents dedicated themselves to providing the finest education possible to Parsky, who graduated from Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School, and has devoted voluntary time to education. Parsky resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California. He has two children, Laura Parsky of San Diego, California, and David Parsky of Los Angeles, California and two grandchildren, Annabelle and Izzy Parsky.

After working for three years for a Wall Street law firm, he was recruited to the United States Department of the Treasury in 1971. From 1977 until 1992, Parsky was affiliated with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he was a senior partner and a member of the executive and management committees. In 1992, Parsky founded Aurora Capital Group. Parsky also served as a charter trustee of Princeton University from 1981 to 1991; serves as a trustee of the Salk Institute; and the advisory council of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Parsky and his family have established the Parsky Family Scholarship at Princeton University; the Parsky Family Scholarship at UCLA's Anderson School of Business and Management and the Parsky Family Scholarship at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D. C.

Parsky has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Institute Corporate Citizen Award; the Alexander Hamilton Award (the highest award presented in the U. S. Treasury Department); and was voted One of Ten Outstanding Young Men in America by U. S. Jaycees. Parsky holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Princeton University.