Allison Burman Gordon

Co-Executive Director and Founder

Allison GordonFrom 1992 through 2002, Allison Gordon worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. as the senior member of a team of professionals responsible for developing and managing more than $1 billion in client assets, generating revenues for the firm ranging from $5-7 million annually. Areas of expertise included single stock risk management, derivative strategies, fixed income and equity portfolio construction, and asset allocation. Allison advised clients on investing in real estate LLPs, Hedge Funds and private equity. Allison also assisted clients in taking their companies public.

After leaving Goldman, Sachs, Allison Gordon focused on OCI. Her passion to improve the lives of children in impoverished areas of Kenya germinated in 1989 when Allison was awarded a Rotary Fellowship to live and study in East Africa. Twenty-two years later Allison returned to Kenya to co-found OCI, and she is now the co-Executive Director.

Allison Gordon is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Wellesley College where she received joint BA and BS degrees. Allison also received her MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Master’s Degree from Harvard.

Today, Allison Gordon lives in Boston with her husband and three children. Since leaving the world of finance, Allison has worked as an interior designer on residential and commercial office projects, designing some of Boston’s most unique spaces. Allison has also done extensive marketing, fundraising and event planning in both professional and philanthropic arenas. Allison serves on the Board of Achieve, a project that provides academic and social support and mentoring to impoverished inner-city school children. Allison is on the Anti-Defamation League’s Executive Committee as an Associate National Commissioner. In the 1990’s, Allison founded Voices For The Future, ADL’s young leadership organization as well as a groundbreaking Black-Jewish outreach program called Bridges. For these efforts, Allison Gordon won the Krupp Leadership Award for outstanding community leadership.