Cindy  K.  Parseghian

Cindy Parseghian, M.B.A., is founder and president of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation in Tucson, Ariz.- a volunteer, nonprofit organization that funds research on the fatal genetic disorder known as Niemann-Pick Disease Type C and related neurodegenerative metabolic disorders. She has helped raise more than $30 million dollars in research support and has directed the research program that has expanded the number of labs researching Niemann-Pick Type C from fewer than five to more than 55 worldwide since the foundation's inception in 1994. Previously she was president, chief financial officer, and controller of MCS Telecommunications in Tucson, and has also worked as a certified public accountant. Mrs. Parseghian earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and her master’s in business management from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.