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.

Susan Bayliss, Associate Consultant and Research Analyst
susan@gfparishgroup.com
Susan joined GF Parish group in 2010 as an associate consultant and research analyst. Previously, she worked at Piper Jaffray for 13 years where she was a VP of Municipal Bond Trading and Underwriting. She spent 9 years on the municipal desk trading, underwriting, executing multi-million dollar bond ladders, leading branch office meetings, as well as marketing and educating to over 800 brokers. Susan also spent 4 years as a Unit Investment Trust Coordinator working closely with retail and wholesalers alike to promote UIT's throughout Piper's system. More recently she has worked as a substitute teacher, and as a consultant in the financial service industry, constructing business reports for competitive analysis. Susan holds a BA from St. Olaf College.

Andy Simms, Associate Consultant and Research Analyst
andy@gfparishgroup.com
Andy joined the team at GF Parish Group in 2010 as associate consultant and research analyst. Prior to GF Parish Group he worked at State Street Global Advisors in Boston as an index fund portfolio manager. Andy's primary focus was real estate securities for global and US-only mandates. Before joining SSgA in 2004, Andy worked at Fidelity Investments in Boston as a Financial Analyst. In this position he prepared analysis of internal corporate financial data and presented it to the division's CFO. While working at Fidelity, Andy attended Suffolk University and earned a Master of Science in Finance degree. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stonehill College in Massachusetts, where he studied Economics and Computer Information Systems. Andy has previously served on the Board of Directors and Finance Committee for the Natural Resources Trust of Eaton, MA.