Justine Gordon leads Egon Zehnder’s Global Infrastructure Practice. She is a trusted advisor to corporations and investment platforms at both the fund and portfolio level across Egon Zehnder’s full suite of talent, governance and leadership advisory services. She is a specialist in the infrastructure, energy, and digital infrastructure segments, partnering with growth and mature businesses. She is highly effective in cross border situations as a dual citizen of South Africa and the U.S.
Justine brings credibility and commands knowledge of her sectors 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.
