Bio

Prior to founding Parchman Vaughan in 1996, Mr. Parchman managed the investment banking effort of Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc. and served on its Board of Directors. Mr. Parchman started his career as a banker in the First National Bank of Chicago's First Scholar program. He later joined Norwest Corporation and ultimately became Senior Vice President. After Norwest, he founded Signet Investment Banking Company and served as its Senior Managing Director. Mr. Parchman received a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and French from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar. Mr. Parchman serves on the University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation’s Board of Trustees (UMB is the University of Maryland System’s professional education hub where students pursue advanced degrees from the highly ranked schools of Law, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work, along with the Graduate School) and on the President's Advisory Council of Stevenson University. Mr. Parchman is a former Trustee of the Culver Educational Foundation and the Youth Outreach Foundation Inc. Mr. Parchman has served on the boards of The Education Industry Association, the United States Lacrosse Foundation, the Conserve School and the Conserve School Trust. He has also chaired the Advisory Board for the Baltimore City Campus of the School of Continuing Studies at Johns Hopkins University and served on the Baltimore City Board of Finance. Mr. Parchman has taught Corporate Finance and Negotiation at Johns Hopkins University and St. Thomas College.