Ulla Parker has spent three decades identifying asymmetric value at the intersection of technology, culture, and capital — often years before the market catches up.

Her foundation is technical. Ulla earned her undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science and theoretical mathematics from Cornell University, where her graduate work centered on distributed reliable systems and robotics — the architecture that underpins today's AI and autonomous systems. In 1990, she worked with Professor Brian Smith at Cornell on early video compression protocols in the lineage of what would become modern video communication platforms. She maintains an advisory affiliation with Cornell Tech's postgraduate engineering program.

She brought that engineering rigor to finance, first in strategic planning at Morgan Stanley, then managing a diversified portfolio through her private family office. Since 2004, she has backed early-stage ventures in cleantech, sustainability, and impact investing, and currently advises portfolio companies on AI strategy and integration.

Parker's instinct for conviction before consensus extends well beyond technology. In 1998, she and her partners acquired properties in France's Languedoc region and built Château Maris — one of the first biodynamic vineyards in the country, later recognized by Wine Spectator as one of the five most environmentally friendly wineries in the world. She owned and operated François Plantation in St. Barthélemy for twelve years, bringing in three-Michelin-star chef Pierre Gagnaire to run the kitchen and establishing it as one of the Caribbean's most celebrated hotel properties before its sale to Villa Marie. Her personal collection of Domaine Romanée-Conti sold at record auction prices.

Ulla entered the world through fashion — modeling for John Galliano, Giorgio Armani, Christian Lacroix, and Hanae Mori, amongst some of the most fashion forward designers of that time— and never left it. She advises couture houses Stéphane Rolland and Zuhair Murad, treating fashion not as decoration but as a design discipline and medium for cultural narrative.

Ulla is a collector of modern and contemporary art and has served on the board of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. She is a patron of the Opéra Garnier and New York City Ballet.

Ulla’s current work spans technology equities investing, AI advisory for early-stage companies, psychedelic medicine for PTSD and depression, and the thesis that aging well is the defining luxury of the next era.

Ulla is based in New York.