Temi Marcella is a global investor, operator, and capital architect — deploying over a billion dollars across technology, healthcare, financial services, and energy, and building conviction around where long-term value will be created next.
She is the Founding Partner of Alcent Capital, through which she invests in and advises technology, infrastructure, and high-growth businesses shaping the future economy — spanning financial infrastructure, digital health, artificial intelligence, and the foundational systems through which capital, capability, and value move across global markets.
Previously, Temi served as Regional Lead for TPG Capital and The Rise Fund's US$1 billion Evercare Health Fund, scaling the platform from inception into a multi-country healthcare network serving more than four million patients annually across Africa and South Asia. As Founding Executive Director and Board Member of Evercare Hospital Lekki, she oversaw the development of one of the continent's most advanced private hospitals — a critical anchor in Nigeria's healthcare infrastructure.
She began her career at Goldman Sachs International, contributing to the firm's technology investment strategy and capital markets execution. Over the course of her career, she has built investment platforms that have backed more than 200 venture-funded companies across five continents, spanning artificial intelligence, digital health, financial infrastructure, and frontier technologies.
Beyond investment, Temi serves on the boards and advisory bodies of institutions where capital, governance, and long-term value intersect. She is a Founding Board Member and Investment Committee member of the Equality Fund, helping steward more than CAD $300 million in capital toward a long-term programme targeting at least CAD $1 billion over fifteen years. She has served on the advisory boards of the University of Cambridge and Save the Children International. Through the TM Foundation, she supports efforts to advance leadership equity and opportunity for women and children globally.
Temi is recognised as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Goldman Sachs Global Leader, Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle Fellow, and Kauffman Venture Capital Fellow.
She holds a First Class Honours MA in Economics from Christ's College, University of Cambridge, where she was a Matriculation Scholar, and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.