Alice Gugelev

Alice is a Director with the Global Development Incubator and head of the Impact Escalated portfolio, which focuses on financial and structural changes to unlock entrepreneurship for individuals, small and growing enterprises and corporations. The portfolio has a special focus on increasing the scale, reach and impact of growth stage social enterprises and non-profits through a comprehensive 2 year partnership with management teams, boards, funders and a broad set of stakeholders. The Impact Escalated portfolio supports initiatives that drive large scale social change in blended finance, financial inclusion, SME development, economic livelihoods, employment, education, humanitarian work and climate change. Alice is also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Muskoka Foundation and the “Do Good As You Go” movement and Chief Strategy Officer and investor for AppMakr, the world’s largest DIY mobile app development platform.

Prior to her entrepreneurial ventures, Alice worked with The Bridgespan Group in San Francisco on high school education reform with the Gates Foundation and started Bain & Company’s Pro-Bono practice in Asia specializing in non-profit collaboration practices, driving greater capital to SMEs, and government non-profit oversight, as a consultant and trainer for the National Council for Social Service (NCSS). Alice also worked with the World Bank in SE Asia on their regional HQ In the for-profit world, Alice spent six years with Bain & Company in Singapore and Bangkok, where she focused on market growth, multi-factor cost models, pricing strategy, and merger integration in the finance, consumer product, private equity, and technology sectors. Alice also spent five years on the trading floor managing assets and liabilities for Fortune 500 companies in the US and Asia. After the currency crisis in 1997, she started the fixed income derivatives desk in SE Asia for multinational corporations with The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. Alice is a graduate of the Stanford Japan Center, holds a double major BA in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Alice is also the co-author or the highly acclaimed “What’s Your Endgame?” article published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and widely shared at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford and Ashoka Future Forum in DC.