Gillian Marcelle
Trinidad & United States
Expertise:
Business & Industry
CEO and Founder
Gillian Marcelle leads Resilience Capital Ventures LLC, a boutique capital advisory practice specializing in blended finance. She has a proven track record in attracting investment to underserved markets and designing architectures that facilitate partnerships. Marcelle developed the Triple B Framework to improve flows of capital and its allocation; this provides a platform for engaging in the finance and investment world, where her contributions and perspectives on diversity, inclusion, accountability and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals are becoming influential.
Her experience includes staff roles with the International Finance Corporation, equity capital markets at JP Morgan Chase, and mergers and acquisitions with British Telecom. Marcelle serves on the advisory board of New Majority Capital, Marketspace USA and was previously a nonexecutive director with South African fintech Tafari Capital.
Marcelle obtained her PhD from the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. In her academic roles, she was a tenured associate professor at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and has held research and teaching positions in the US, UK and the Caribbean. She is a published research scholar and maintains academic networks in the U.S. with MIT and Penn State; in Europe with SPRU, University of Sussex; and across the African continent and the Caribbean. International public service includes appointments with the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.