Drawing on more than two decades of technical finance and strategic marketing experience, Meredith Wilson Parfet is an entrepreneur who serves as President of Denali Venture Philanthropy, a Colorado-based impact investing entity that she co-founded in 2012. In addition, Meredith Parfet is the CEO of the Ravenyard Group, a crisis management consultancy.

With Ravenyard, which she founded in 2019, Parfet works with senior business leaders to address crisis situations. In addition, she regularly mentors startup founders and social entrepreneurs and advises them on business strategy, brand positioning and optimizing structure, among other areas.

Meredith Parfet holds a B.A. in political science from Northwestern University, as well as an M.B.A. from its Kellogg School of Management. She is pursuing an M.A. in Pastoral and Spiritual Care, which will confer on her Chaplaincy upon graduation. She is also certified in Six Sigma Greenbelt and holds a certificate as an End Of Life Doula from the University of Vermont Medical School, which she gained in 2019.