Alice Gugelev

Alice Gugelev holds the position of Managing Director at GDI US and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of GDI Africa. In these roles, she collaborates with prominent corporations, commercial investors, and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to incorporate social impact, innovation, and social entrepreneurship initiatives into their portfolios. Additionally, she assists philanthropists and social enterprises in achieving more impactful and transformative change at the systemic level.

Before joining GDI, Alice had professional experience at Bridgespan, Bain & Co, the World Bank, and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. She holds the positions of co-founder and executive director at The Muskoka Foundation, as well as co-founder and chief strategy officer at AppMkr. Alice holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and possesses a double major BA in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia University and Stanford Japan Center. In her leisure time, Alice takes pleasure in spending quality moments at her cabin in Canada with her family – despite the presence of numerous uninvited black flies.