Gabrielle Parish, President
gabrielle@gfparishgroup.com
In January, 2003 Gabrielle founded the GF Parish Group, an executive search firm that places individuals and teams in the investment management business.  Prior to that she established the Minneapolis office of Warren International in the spring of 1999.  At Warren she executed a wide variety of searches in the investment management area, including five team lift outs.  This followed an investment management career that began in 1980.  Before entering the search industry she was a Senior Vice President of American Express Asset Management.  During her more than 12 years there she was responsible for institutional sales and client service to corporate plans nationwide, in addition to varied responsibilities with U.S. public funds and institutional investors in Latin America.  She helped the firm see its assets under management appreciate tenfold.  She also oversaw strategic planning for the asset management group where she focused on expanding global distribution capabilities to institutions and intermediaries.  She was responsible for building strategic alliances and merger and acquisition activity.  At American Express, she executed her first "lift-out" of a team of portfolio managers.  Previously Gabrielle was Vice President of Marketing in the Options Department of Salomon Smith Barney.  In that role she developed relationships across the U.S. with retail financial consultants to assist them in the development of their individual practices; she conducted client and broker seminars and provided daily investment ideas.  Before joining Salomon Smith Barney she was an options trader for Paine Webber. Gabrielle holds an MBA from Harvard and an AB from Dartmouth College.

Liesl Batz, Senior Consultant
liesl@gfparishgroup.com
Liesl comes to the executive search business with 15 years of experience in the investment management industry.  Liesl most recently was Vice President, Director of Marketing for University Capital Strategies Group.  At UCSG, she was responsible for all sales and marketing activities for their global merger arbitrage hedge fund to funds of funds, and institutional and High Net Worth prospects.  Prior to UCSG, Liesl held the same position with Lakeside Investment Partners, where she marketed their technology market neutral hedge fund.  Preceding her hedge fund sales experience, Liesl was an Executive Director for Goldman Sachs Asset Management International in London.  There Liesl was responsible for selling Goldman’s offshore mutual funds as well as separate accounts and sub-advisory accounts to asset managers, insurance companies and banks in 11 European countries as well as in South Africa.  Liesl also spent time as an Associate with Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York where she helped establish their US Retail Funds Group.  In this role, Liesl was involved in recruiting, hiring and training more than 40 sales people in an 18-month period.  Prior to Goldman Sachs, Liesl was National Sales Marketing Manager with Voyageur Asset Management in Minneapolis, MN, representing their entire line of retail mutual funds.  She began her career as an Equity Research Associate with Dain Bosworth, covering biotech and technology.  Liesl has a BA in English from Gustavus Adolphus College.

Anders Eckman, Director of Research
anders@gfparishgroup.com
Anders joined the GF Parish Group in 2006 with background experience in recruitment and candidate analysis. Previously, Anders spent four years as a valued student leader in the Gustavus Adolphus College Admission Office where his experience included interfacing with prospective students and their families and assisting the admissions office in its evaluation of those prospective students. While pursuing his undergraduate degree Anders held numerous leadership roles including a three-year term as Student Senator, successful work as a campaign manager for presidential candidates to the student government, two years as a collegiate fellow (resident assistant), and a position as secretariat and conference facilitator at the YMCA Model United Nations, among others.  Anders is a people-oriented individual who contributes research analysis and investigative support for the firm covering all aspects of the asset management industry. Although new to the executive search business, he brings to the firm an understanding of candidate recruitment and skills in analytical reasoning and writing, communication, and organization. Anders is an honors graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College where he obtained a BA in political science.