Wendell McCain
Chairman and CEO of Onset Capital Partners

Mr. Wendell McCain is the Chairman and CEO of Onset Capital Partners, a global asset management firm. Prior to founding Onset, Wendell was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Parish Capital Advisors, a global private equity firm with $2 billion under management.

Over the last twenty years, he has gained extensive intellectual capital in alternative asset classes and in the private equity business from the perspective of advisor, direct investor and limited partner.

Prior to founding Parish Capital, Mr. McCain served as Vice President at BancBoston Ventures, where his group managed a $600 million diversified private equity portfolio and he managed a direct investment portfolio of eleven companies and four limited partnerships. 

Mr. McCain served on the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian National African Art Museum and is on the Board of Trustees for the NC Nature Conservancy, UNC College of Arts and Sciences, UNC Civil Rights Center and North Carolina Central University.

He also served on the Board of Directors for the Union Independent School. Mr. McCain received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, where he was a Toigo Fellow.