Louis Parker
Louis Parker is the Co-Founder and Emeritus Board Member of Visible Men Academy, a transformational public, tuition-free K-5 charter school for at-risk boys, which he co-founded in 2012. He served as CEO of Visible Men Academy until January 2023. Before that, Mr. Parker served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Visible Men Academy from 2012 to April 2021. From 1996 to 2009, Mr. Parker held the Chief Executive Officer role in multiple business lines within GE Capital, the financial services division of General Electric Company, and GE. He was named a General Electric Vice President in 2001 and appointed to the General Electric Chairman’s Executive Committee in 2005. Mr. Parker currently serves as an advisory board member of Gray Matter Analytics (a data solutions analytics provider). Since 2005, he has served on the Board of Directors of A Better Chance, whose mission is to increase the number of young people of color prepare to assume leadership positions in our society. Throughout his executive career, including work at IBM, Morgan Stanley, ADP and GE, he served in various industries, including insurance, financial services, electronic security and manufacturing. Mr. Parker brings valuable international business operations experience to the Board and a deep understanding of human capital management, diversity, equity and inclusion, Lean/Six Sigma, acquisition integrations, technology, business turnarounds, risk management, finance and homeland security. Mr. Parker has been a director of The Brink’s Company since 2021. His current term as a director of the Company expires in 2024.