Gillian Marcelle, PhD's Linkedin Analytics

Blended finance specialist with C-suite experience in economic development and capital mobilization. Considerable expertise in capital raising for 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, PolicyLink, Clinton Foundation, African Union. Advisory Board roles include New Majority Capital and MarketSpace USA. 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; new ventures; international development and private-public partnerships.