Justine Gordon leads Egon Zehnder’s Global Infrastructure Practice. She specializes in advising investment platforms at both the fund and portfolio level on organizational and leadership matters. She is particularly active in the infrastructure, energy, and communications segments where she works with both corporations, developers and private capital-backed businesses. She is highly effective in cross border situations as a dual citizen of South Africa and the U.S.
Justine commands knowledge of the sector with 20 years of financial investing and advisory experience, primarily in energy and 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. Justine began her private equity career at Chartwell Investments, a New York-based generalist middle market firm, working with families and management teams across the industrial and energy sectors. Before that, she was a chartered accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a TMT 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 animal and sports philanthropy.
