2018 Alumni Medalist Louis A. Parks '95GSAS, '03BUS, '12GS
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2018-10-10

Louis A. Parks '95GSAS, '03BUS, '12GS is a Managing Partner at Tyro Capital Management LLC, an equity hedge fund based in New York City. Over the last 35 years, he has spent a distinguished career on Wall Street in areas of investment management and capital markets. Louis began his career as an equity trader at Merrill Lynch and worked at global firms such as Morgan Stanley, Sanford C. Bernstein, and Raymond James Financial. While working at investment banks, his roles included Senior Managing Director/Head of Equity Trading and Head of Equity Capital Markets. From 2008 – 2013, he served as a representative to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in
Washington, DC. Louis is also a principal investor and advisory board member for several domestic and international investment funds and is Vice Chair of the Trustee Board of The League Education and Treatment Center, a non-profit school for autistic children and adults in Brooklyn, NY. Louis has dedicated over 20 years as a volunteer at Columbia where he was Committee Chair for Development on the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
(GSAS) Advisory Board, President of the GSAS Alumni Association, and Chair of the Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee. In 2001, he endowed the Louis A. Parks Fellowship in Classics at GSAS and in 2010, he was awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Alumni Award for his service to GSAS. As a student, Louis played inside center on the rugby team, volunteered in the Office of Career Services, and graduated from the School of General Studies magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Louis resides in New York City with his wife Ann and is the proud father of Kira, ’13BC, ’15SW, an LVAD/Heart Transplant Social Worker at Mt. Sinai Hospital, and Jenna, a Graphics Producer at MSNBC.