The Honorable Gerald Parsky

Gerald L. Parsky is Chairman of Aurora Capital Partners, L.P., a Los Angeles based U. S. investment firm, specializing in the acquisition of U.S. companies. He founded the Firm in 1991.

From 1974 until 1977, he served as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, responsible for capital markets policy; responsible for all of the Treasury Department's international affairs, including trade policy; international monetary policy; investment and energy policy; relations with industrial and developing countries; and U. S. policy relating to the international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

From 1977 until 1992, Mr. 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.

Present activities include: Trustee, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation; Trustee Emeritus, Princeton University; Board Member, Public Policy Institute of California; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; and Board of Directors, The Irvine Company.

Among past activities, Mr. Parsky was a Trustee of Princeton University (1981-1991); a member and Chairman of the Board of Regents, University of California (1996-2008); Board Member, The RAND Corporation; Board Member, Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress; Chairman of The Commission on the 21st Century Economy (2009); Chairman of The Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission (2007); member of President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security (2002); member of President Reagan's Council on Productivity (1980-1984); and member of President Bush's Export Council (1991-1992).

Mr. Parsky has been awarded the Alexander Hamilton Award (highest award presented in the U. S. Treasury Department); the Woodrow Wilson Institute Corporate Citizen Award; and was voted One of Ten Outstanding Young Men in America by U. S. Jaycees.

Mr. Parsky is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School.