Alexa Gellman
Growth Equity Investor & Startup Consultant
Alexa Gellman
Growth Equity Investor & Startup Consultant
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2022 - 2023
Senior Associate on Volition Capital’s Internet and Consumer investment team. Volition Capital is a Boston-based growth equity firm that principally invests in high-growth, founder-owned companies across the software, internet, and consumer sectors.
Venture Fellow
2021 - 2022
MBA Venture Fellow at NY-based venture group that backs and helps build the next generation of mission-driven consumer and retail brands.
Associate, BlackRock Real Assets Group
2019 - 2020
Member of the Real Assets Executive team within the BlackRock Alternatives platform. Supported the Real Assets leadership in developing and executing on the strategic growth initiatives for the $55bn investment platform. Responsibilities included strategy, business development, investments and operations across the Infrastructure and Real Estate businesses.
Associate, Global Business Manager, BlackRock Alternatives Specialists
2018 - 2019
Global Business Manager for the BlackRock Alternatives Specialists team, which is responsible for business development for BlackRock’s $200bn+ alternatives platform.
Analyst, Hedge Fund Sales, BlackRock Alternatives Specialists
2015 - 2018
Developed and maintained relationships with specialist alternatives buyers at institutional clients and alternative asset managers in the US and Canada, with a focus on asset raising for the firm’s $25bn direct hedge fund platform.
Investment Banking Summer Analyst
2014 - 2014
Consumer / Retail Group
Editor and Beat Reporter
2011 - 2014
Research Intern
2013 - 2013
Editorial Intern
2012 - 2012