Chief Executive Officer
Resilience Capital Ventures
Gillian Marcelle, PhD
Gillian Marcelle, PhD leads Resilience Capital Ventures LLC (RCV), a boutique capital advisory practice specializing in blended finance. Dr Marcelle developed the Triple B Framework to improve flows and allocation of capital in its multiple forms; 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 SDGs are becoming influential. Most recently, she was recognized by earning inclusion in the fourth annual Forbes Fifty Over Fifty: Investment list.
Her decades long track record includes attracting investment and structuring deals. Her sectors of focus are telecoms, fintech, renewable energy, regenerative agriculture and health systems. Her specialty is the design and implementation of blended finance strategies that involve partnerships, ecosystem strengthening and architectures to facilitate transformational change. Dr Marcelle includes among her clients and partners: The Bahamas; Open Society Foundations; MPC Energy Solutions, PolicyLink, Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), AfricaBio and the Clinton Foundation. She serves on the Advisory Board of New Majority Capital and has guided numerous ventures in the role of Senior Advisor. She is also an LP in Outside Ventures.
Prior to founding RCV, she was the Executive Director the UVI RTPark and previously held staff roles in development finance with the International Finance Corporation, equity capital markets at JP Morgan Chase and M&A with British Telecom. Her earlier Board roles include serving as non-Executive Director with South African fintech Tafari Capital and on the UN ICT Task Force. Her academic career includes teaching and research as a tenured Associate Professor at Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa and teaching at the University of East London and City University in London, England. She is a published research scholar and maintains active academic networks; in the US, with MIT and Penn State; in the UK with SPRU, University of Sussex; across the African continent and in the Caribbean.
Gillian Marcelle also been actively involved in international public service including senior appointments with the United Nations; World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on SynBio; and the Values Commission, a project of the Capitals Coalition.
Her educational background includes earning degrees in Economics from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, and the Kiel Institute of World Economics, Germany; an MBA with a specialization in high technology management from the George Washington University and a doctorate in innovation policy from the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, SPRU, University of Sussex. She is a graduate of the Bishop Anstey High School, an all-girls Anglican School in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Gillian Marcelle
CEO, Resilience Capital Ventures LLC
Boutique capital advisory firm headquartered in Washington, DC.