Thomas E. Parkinson
Mr. Parkinson's corporate finance/business management background is uniquely coupled with an entrepreneurial spirit giving him the ability to broaden a company's vision for the future while strengthening its foundation for the present.
Mr. Parkinson, for the past seven years, has been the Executive Director of a private seed/venture capital fund in Evanston, Illinois, where he negotiated and managed equity investments in more than twenty start-up companies. In 1989, under his direction, the fund won an award from the U. S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) as one of the country's most innovative economic development/venture capital programs.
Mr. Parkinson has also managed a small business center, providing management consulting and loan packaging services for small businesses, as well as serving as CFO for a business incubator in the Northwestern University Research Park housing 35 high-tech companies.
Mr. Parkinson is a visiting lecturer at Northwestern's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, teaching a course on entrepreneurship. Previously, he has taught courses on small business finance and new venture finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mr. Parkinson has been the featured speaker at several national and international programs on entrepreneurship and business development, including a recent program on enterprise development in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republics.
Mr. Parkinson, for the past seven years, has been the Executive Director of a private seed/venture capital fund in Evanston, Illinois, where he negotiated and managed equity investments in more than twenty start-up companies. In 1989, under his direction, the fund won an award from the U. S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) as one of the country's most innovative economic development/venture capital programs.
Mr. Parkinson has also managed a small business center, providing management consulting and loan packaging services for small businesses, as well as serving as CFO for a business incubator in the Northwestern University Research Park housing 35 high-tech companies.
Mr. Parkinson is a visiting lecturer at Northwestern's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, teaching a course on entrepreneurship. Previously, he has taught courses on small business finance and new venture finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mr. Parkinson has been the featured speaker at several national and international programs on entrepreneurship and business development, including a recent program on enterprise development in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republics.