Justine Gordon

Justine Gordon, based in New York, is a leader in Egon Zehnder’s North American Real Assets franchise, which includes infrastructure, energy & mobility. She is active across the Private Capital, Financial Officers, and Technology & Communications practices. She commands knowledge of the sector with 20 years of financial investing and advisory experience, primarily in energy and power infrastructure leading the Real Assets secondaries and co-investing business at AlpInvest Partners (The Carlyle Group), and building the direct infrastructure businesses at RREEF Infrastructure and Guggenheim Partners. She works actively with investors, developers and corporations across the real assets value chain on organizational, Board and talent matters. She is highly effective in cross border situations as a dual citizen of South Africa and the US.

Justine began her private equity career at Chartwell Investments, a New York-based generalist middle market firm, working with management teams across the consumer, industrial and energy sectors. Before that, she was a chartered accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Justine earned a BComm (Accounting) and a BComm Honors (Accounting, Tax) from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and an MPhil (Finance) from Cambridge University, UK. She is passionate about her South African heritage, endurance sports and exploring the world. In addition, Justine is active in medical and sports philanthropy.