Thierry Vanparys
Advisor
Cambridge Family Enterprise Group
Thierry Vanparys is an Advisor at Cambridge Advisors to Family Enterprise, a highly specialized global advisory firm serving family enterprises. Cambridge Advisors and Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise, an education and research institute, are divisions of Cambridge Family Enterprise Group (CFEG), a global organization founded in 1989. It is devoted to helping families and ownership groups navigate the new economy and achieve multigenerational success for their families, enterprises, and financial wealth.
Mr. Vanparys advises family enterprises of diverse sizes, generations, and industries in North America and Europe, helping them achieve their family, ownership, and organizational goals. His work emphasizes family offices, financial service providers, innovation, and strategy issues.
Mr. Vanparys has over 20 years of experience in the financial services sector, primarily in alternative investments. He was a Senior Advisor at Hobart Capital Markets, Managing Director UK/Europe at EnTrust Capital, and Vice President in the hedge fund solutions group at Blackstone. Prior to this he was with Commerzbank Securities. He began his financial services journey in private banking at Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Vanparys is a former Visting Fellow at MIT Sloan focusing on strategy and entrepreneurship, and studied entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is currently a lecturer and mentor at MIT Sloan and serves on the advisory council of the MIT Sloan Visting Fellows Program. Mr. Vanparys is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and is fluent in English, French, and Dutch.
He earned his MSMS from MIT Sloan School of Management and BSBA from Boston University Questrom School of Business.
