Raymond Jackson

Raymond T. Jackson is a Managing Director at Franklin Park Associates, LLC, an employee-owned private markets investment firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in suburban Philadelphia. Franklin Park says it provides access to private equity, private debt, and venture capital investments through fund-of-funds, co-investment funds, and advisory accounts.

Jackson joined Franklin Park in 2005. According to his Franklin Park/The Org biography, he is responsible for analyzing and evaluating private equity investment opportunities, monitoring client portfolios, conducting industry research, and interacting with clients on investment and monitoring matters.

Before Franklin Park, Jackson worked at Chartwell Investment Partners, Cigna Corporation, and SEI Investments. He is a CFA charterholder, a member of the CFA Institute, and received a B.A. in Finance from Morehouse College. His LinkedIn profile also lists CFA Institute education from 2000 to 2003 and membership in CFA Society Philadelphia beginning in September 2004.

Public sources do not support the stub’s classification of Jackson as an individual angel investor. The verified profile is that he is a private markets investment professional at Franklin Park.

• Franklin Park focuses exclusively on private markets, investing in professionally managed funds and direct co-investments.
• The firm’s stated purpose is to find “best-in-class private market investment opportunities” intended to generate long-term absolute and excess returns.
• Private equity focus: global private equity funds and direct co-investments across growth equity, buyout, and turnaround strategies.
• Private debt focus: senior, mezzanine, structured capital, royalties, specialty finance, opportunistic credit, and other niche strategies.
• Venture capital focus: global VC funds and direct co-investments across seed, early, and late-stage strategies, primarily in technology and life sciences.
• Franklin Park’s VC manager-selection tenets include backing managers positioned as go-to players in specific markets, with established entrepreneur and VC relationships, and an emphasis on value-added earlier-stage strategies.
• Jackson’s role appears diligence- and portfolio-monitoring oriented rather than solo angel investing; approach him as part of Franklin Park’s institutional private-markets process.