Nekeshia Woods

Nekeshia Woods is a Managing Partner at Parkway Venture Capital based in New York, United States. Before joining Parkway, she served as Head of Strategy at the fintech firm Artivest and held leadership roles in portfolio strategy and digital initiatives at Morgan Stanley and BlackRock. Her early career included positions at PwC, Booz, and IBM, as well as public sector experience as a White House intern for George W. Bush and a political appointee at the Department of Homeland Security. Woods holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America, and she currently helps manage investment vehicles such as the ARC AI Fund LP and Parkway Fund 3. Her current focus centers on venture capital investments, artificial intelligence strategies, and business optimization across the wealth sector.