Sandra A. Parker, President and Chief Executive Officer

Sandra A. Parker is president and chief executive officer of the Rochester Business Alliance, a post she has held since 2005.

At the Rochester Business Alliance, Sandy Parker has taken a strong community leadership role. She was instrumental in establishing the Rochester Business Alliance as the region's "Voice of Business." In 2006, she was awarded a key to the city by Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy for her leadership in the Fair Share Coalition, formed to seek parity in state aid for Rochester. Under her leadership, the RBA Healthcare Initiative was founded, bringing together key business leaders and stakeholders in the health care system to seek ways to improve quality and access to medical services, while keeping costs affordable.

Sandy Parker is also a leader in the Unshackle Upstate coalition, which she helped form in March 2006 to push for legislative reform needed to reinvigorate the regional economy. The coalition has since grown to more than 40 organizations representing more than 32,000 employers and more than a million workers. Parker has been credited with bringing long-overdue attention to the economic challenges facing Rochester and Upstate and for her leadership in the coalition's successful campaign for reform of the state's workers' compensation system.

Sandy Parker also serves on a variety of boards, including Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester Downtown Development Corporation Monroe Community College Foundation, Frontier Telephone, Center for Governmental Research, the Greater Rochester Visitor's Association, Stone Construction, and serves on the YMCA Board of Directors.

She is listed as one of Greater Rochester's Most Influential Women, and in 2002, she won the ATHENA Award given each year to a woman for her outstanding contributions to business and her community.

She is a native of Rochester, and holds a bachelor of arts degree from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.