Marcia Page

Chrissie Chen Pariso

MPowered Capital

MPowered invests in best-in-class female and other underrepresented talent in the alternative investment space. Founded by Marcia Page, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair of Värde Partners, the firm is focused on accelerating equity for diverse talent through capital, commitment, and connections. Leveraging its extensive investing experience across strategies and investment types, including fund investments, GP structured partnerships, and direct/co-investments, MPowered believes it is uniquely positioned to access an exceptional, diversified pool of talent while generating superior risk-adjusted returns. Marcia Page founded MPowered Capital and serves as CEO. She believes the time is now to commit resources to women and other underrepresented investing talent in a more structured and disciplined way. She has a valuable and unique perspective on the careers of underrepresented professionals in investment management. Marcia is one of a handful of women founders of a global alternative investment firm, Värde Partners, where she oversaw the over $12 billion global alternative investment firm’s growth, identifying talent and building investment teams across geographies, and portfolio company board representation. She served as Värde’s Co-CEO and Co-CIO until 2016 and currently serves as the firm’s Co-Executive Chair. Chrissie Chen Pariso co-leads MPowered Capital, bringing 20 years of investing experience to the role. As a former Senior Portfolio Manager of Private Equity at Exelon Corporation and Head of Exelon’s Women & Minority Manager Program, Chrissie brings a unique set of qualifications to MPowered. While at Exelon, Chrissie sourced, diligenced, and committed over $1.8 billion to 46 funds and 31 managers across venture capital, growth equity, buyout and distressed funds globally. Chrissie led Exelon’s Women and Minority-Owned Manager Program and developed and executed Exelon’s first Investment Office Diversity and Inclusion Survey across asset classes. Prior to Exelon, Chrissie was Vice President at middle-market buyout firm Sterling Partners.