Kathleen Parmer, MBA
Managing Partner
Kate is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in financial, analytical, and operational leadership positions at Fortune 500 firms.
She began her career as a software programmer in the Bay Area before shifting to financial services, working with quant portfolios at Franklin Templeton Investments and later providing analytical support to portfolio managers at State Street Global Advisors. Kate left State Street to earn her full-time MBA at UCLA Anderson School of Management.
After business school, Kate joined S&P Global Ratings as a municipal bond analyst, where she quickly rose to Director and Lead Analyst in US Public Finance. In this role, she co-authored key rating criteria, guiding the credit rating decision for all bonds rated by S&P Global in those areas. Kate was later asked to help lead the organization’s global transformation effort in Lean Six Sigma, at which point she transitioned to the role of Director of Business Transformation.
In 2020, Kate accepted a leadership position at LPL Financial, most recently serving as a Senior Vice President in operations, where she oversaw the accuracy of over 3 million advisory accounts. Kate has since left LPL Financial and is focusing full-time on her role as a Managing Partner of Swan Ventures.
Jonathan Parmer, MD
Managing Partner
Jon, a retired Ob/Gyn, is the founder of Swan Ventures and the Managing Partner of its first two fund-of-funds.
He is a graduate of Princeton University and New York University School of Medicine. Jon interned at Los Angeles County Hospital and did his Ob/Gyn residency training at Stanford University. After his residency, he opened a private practice in Palo Alto. While in practice, he served on the Strategic Planning Committee of Stanford University Hospital, as Deputy Chief of Stanford’s Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and as an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Throughout his career, Jon has consulted for multiple venture capitalists and worldwide healthcare companies.
In 2000, he founded Swan Ventures, primarily to give Silicon Valley physicians an opportunity to invest in a diverse portfolio of top-tier venture capital funds.
Additionally, in 2005, Jon founded Viveve Corporation (FKA TivaMed), a women’s health medical-device company, and was its initial CEO. Jon has had numerous United States and International patents issued, which he assigned to Viveve. Jon left Viveve in 2009 and left Silicon Valley (and California) shortly thereafter.
In semi-retirement, Jon continues to manage the remaining Swan Venture fund-of-funds. He also has served as a consultant to Viveve and other entities. Although Viveve no longer exists, Jon is a consultant to the international healthcare company that purchased the Intellectual Property from Viveve and thus holds the assignment of his patents. Jon is back in California (San Diego, not Silicon Valley), where Swan Ventures III, will be based.