Gerald L. Parsky

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

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.

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.

Present activities include: Trustee, Salk Institute; Trustee, The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation; Leadership Committee, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University; Advisory Council, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University; Trustee Emeritus, Princeton University; Board Member, American Council for Capital Formation; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Board Member, American Institute for Public Service; and Board of Directors, The Irvine Company.

Among past activities, Mr. Parsky was Chairman of the Board of Regents, University of California (2004-2007); a Trustee of Princeton University (1981-1991); Chairman of Governor Schwarzenegger’s 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 Woodrow Wilson Institute Corporate Citizen Award; the Alexander Hamilton Award (highest award presented in the U. S. Treasury Department); 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.