Gillian Marcelle

About Gillian Marcelle

Blended finance specialist with C-suite experience in economic development and capital mobilization. Earned a place on the Forbes Fifty Over Fifty: Investment list. Considerable expertise in capital raising for countries, corporates, PE and VC funds, start-ups, social enterprises and civil society organizations. Finance expertise in equities research, capital markets analysis and M&A. Selected clients and partners include - The Bahamas government, MPC Energy Solutions, Open Society Foundations, PolicyLink, Clinton Foundation, and the African Union. Advisory Board roles have included New Majority Capital and MarketSpace USA. Served as a member of the Value Commission, project of the Capitals Coalition and WEF Global Council on SynBio. Successful business development executive and senior leader in investment promotion; large scale project design and execution; and strategy development for corporates. I have been effective at senior executive level with responsibility for Board relationships, budgeting, statutory reporting, P&L and HR management. My experience in emerging markets is focused on sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean and have been a turnaround CEO of a social enterprise in the UK. In these roles, I bring market facing commercial disciplines to the organization and enhance the ability to develop and execute transformative strategies. I combine a passion for sustainable human development, depth of specialist intellectual knowledge in economic development and innovation studies, as well as, well-developed technical and management skills. Accomplished in leading pathbreaking change initiatives where my unique combination of knowledge, skills, passion and experience is a gamechanger. Globally, we face a number of challenging problems: anthropogenic climate change, growing inequality; social alienation; rapid technological change and job displacement. We must tackle these issues and simultaneously accelerate wealth creation, enhanced well-being and prosperity for the majority of the world’s people. The impact investment community and associated policy advocacy work, is the ideal setting to make an important contribution. Specialties: capital raising; investment attraction; impact investment; blended finance; strategic direction of new ventures; international development and private-public partnerships.

Experience

1. CEO and Founder

   Resilience Capital Ventures Llc

   Oct 2018 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Provide strategic advisory services and undertake capital acquisition and mobilization working in partnership with a network of investment firms and brokers. Match capital sources with well qualified projects and sponsors, assisting the latter to become investment ready. Target geographies are the US, Caribbean and sub Saharan Africa; within these regions, my specialist industry sectors include telecoms, IT, renewable energy, clean tech, smart agriculture, creative sectors (film, music, digital media), fintech, and impact investment instruments including Diaspora bonds.

Education

• University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus

  BSc Honours

  1982 — 1985

• The George Washington University

  MBA

  1985 — 1987

• Kiel Institute of World Economics

  Advanced Studies Certificate

  1987 — 1988

• SPRU, University of Sussex

  Doctorate

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Sustainability
• Board Governance
• International Business Development
• Advocacy
• Teaching
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Social Innovation
• Emerging Markets
• Qualitative Research
• Finance
• Private Equity
• Non-Executive Director
• Business Development
• Strategic Partnerships
• Board of Directors
• International Development
• Venture Capital
• Public Speaking
• Executive Management
• Management
• Capital Markets
• Capital Raising
• Telecoms Industry Analysis
• Strategic Management
• Regulatory Affairs
• Start-Ups
• Higher Education
• Investment Banking
• Blended Finance
• Governance
• Start-Up Ventures
• Strategy
• Investment Committee
• Policy
• Economics
• Project Management
• Deal Sourcing
• Higher Education Leadership
• Government
• Energy