Our Education Program

Community Through Teamwork

We are firm believers in the concept of team building. After joining the organization and passing through the education program, students will be placed into teams that partner with PE and VC firms to perform real, impactful work for them. The duties of our analysts include diligence, valuations, industry research and everything in between that a firm might need in a given week. This gives our analysts unparalleled experience while providing our partner firms with top-class Georgetown talent to enhance their business.

Where GSCP Can Take You

In just our inaugural year, our members have recruited at some of the top companies and organizations in the world including:

Founders

Sanjay Gospodinov

Sanjay Gospodinov is credited with taking the lead in the very earliest days of the idea of GCAP and forming a working board, implementing ideas, and beginning the official founding process. He formed and oversaw the club's first board as CEO. He pitched GCAP to the MSB in the official approval process. And he ran the club for all of 2021 and 2022, overseeing its first recruitment process, its first partnering with clients, and its first education program run-through, etc. Sanjay held the role of ultimate responsibility for the club and saw the group through its ups and downs, putting out fires and fixing problems as they came, as well as designing and implementing its long-term vision. He worked with the board to build GCAP into the robust, amazing group of people it is today. He also serves as the President of the GSCP Fund

Lillian Beckwith

Lillian Beckwith was one of the first people brought on board to lead GCAP's personnel and compliance functions. She headed up organizing this rag-tag group of students from across Georgetown into a fully-functioning executive board. She prepared and organized GCAP's compliance with University regulations and represented GCAP to University admin from its earliest days. Lily single-handedly designed one of the best club recruitment programs at Georgetown, if not the country, stressing the key tenets of eliminating bias, removing advantages coming from backgrounds in finance or parents in the industry, and picking applicants who were both good people and also exceptionally intelligent. She eventually took on the role of overseeing professional development, becoming the Director of Personnel and Development, in which she aided students from their first entry into the club to when they were looking to recruit for jobs. She also informally took over many of the operating and admin functions of the club in the spring of '22. She now serves as the Secretary for the GSCP Fund

Joey Mavrogiannis

Joey Mavrogiannis was also one of the earliest board members to join. He initially started off as GCAP's CFO, preparing its budget and keeping track of all things monetary. He informally served as a key advisor to the CEO and he co-built the education program with Nick Rice. In the summer of '21, he swapped roles with Nick to become the Director of Education. He taught the first two classes of GCAP, all analysts who joined in fall '21 and spring '22. He designed and taught an education program that was just as robust, if not more so, than any other club's program, but was taught in half the time, allowing for analysts to learn specialized topics in the second half of the semester. He was an excellent teacher, with analysts frequently mentioning that he was better than all of their finance professors. Finally, he now serves as Treasurer for the GSCP Fund

Molly Zhou

Molly Zhou is credited, along with Will Stomber, with having the first conceptions of what GCAP would eventually become. She joined the board in its early days as the COO, helping to organize the group in its building phase. Eventually, she moved from COO to a new position she pioneered herself, Director of Startups. Molly built the Startups division from the ground up, recruiting its first promising startup clients, advising those clients, and designing the education program for the division. She brought on Asher Bykov to help and the two led the startups division from the summer of '21 through the summer of '22 when Molly became the Director of Venture Capital. As the head of VC, Molly oversaw the reorganization of the division as a revenue-generating division and the start of GCAP's VC fund.

Bryant Hill

Bryant Hill was a freshman and a fellow analyst in GUSIF when Sanjay gave him the call to join the board. He became the group's head of marketing and external relations, helping to craft GCAP's original brand, including designing its iconic logo and color scheme. Throughout GCAP's history, Bryant wore a number of different hats and became known for building most of GCAP's backend. He led all technology efforts from our mass emails, to the website, to our current proprietary recruiting software as well as our centralized club portal. Bryant eventually took on the role of COO in the spring of '22 where he helped Sanjay run the club as it grew and became more and more well-known around Georgetown. Bryant led the SVPs in the fall of '22 in preparation for the board transition and also has led fundraising efforts for the GCAP Fund I. In December ‘22, Byrant took over from Sanjay to serve as GCAP’s 2nd ever CEO. He also serves as the Vice President of the GSCP Fund

Nick Rice

Nick Rice initially joined the board as its Director of Education. He co-built the program along with Joey and in the summer of '21 he swapped roles to become the Director of Finance and eventually, the Director of Finance and Compliance, in which he served as the representative to the MSB admin as well as managed all of our legal efforts. These included the NDAs firms would send our analysts. He managed the budget for the club for the latter half of 2021 and for all of 2022.

Corinne Wright

Corinne Wright was an intern for her father, Prof. Jay Wright, GCAP's first faculty advisor, when she heard about the club. She joined as the Vice President of Private Equity, helping to create the PE division, its education, and to recruit its first clients. Eventually, she wanted to create a new group within GCAP that specifically did Real Estate Private Equity. So, Corinne became the VP of REPE in the spring of '22 when she created and taught the REPE education, acquired our first REPE client, and she oversaw the first team in the fall of '22. Corinne also joined the Executive Board in the fall of '22, serving as the Director of Community and Marketing, where she was responsible for the social life and external face of GCAP, in addition to her job of leading REPE

Will Stomber

Will Stomber, along with Molly, is also credited with forming the first conceptions of the club. He envisioned the details of what the group would become and served as its first Director of Venture Capital. He worked to build the VC division, its education, and recruited its first VP of VC, Phoebe Martin in the summer of '21. At the beginning of fall '21, Will stepped down as VC Director to pursue a startup opportunity fulltime and served as an advisor until he returned in the fall of '22. In the spring of '22, he is returning as a member of the club.

Early Leaders

Asher Bykov

Asher Bykov was brought into GCAP in the summer of '21 as the first Vice President of Startups. He was a natural fit into the team and he built the division with Molly for the entire academic year (21-22). He designed the now incredible program that connects amazing startups with fundraising. He and Molly test-ran the program in the fall and then interviewed dozens of startups to find the best fits for spring '22. Eventually, Asher became the Director of Startups and continued to innovate and made the group into the amazing team it is today within GCAP.

Sydney Gilbert

Sydney Gilbert was recruited into GCAP in the late summer of 2021 and served as its second-ever COO. Sydney led the club, along with Sanjay, in its critical debut semester, helping every director with their specific jobs, providing amazing leadership, and ensuring the club ran smoothly. Sydney worked with Sanjay to implement the club's strategic vision and she did everything from putting out urgent fires to leading GBMs, to taking over specific roles when needed. She eventually left the group at the end of the fall of 2021.

Jai Kondapalli

Jai Kondapalli served as GCAP's second Director of Private Equity, taking over from Max Mounier who briefly held the role in the winter of '21. Jai, along with Corinne, built the entire PE division. He made the education, designed how client engagements would work, and worked to recruit the first PE clients for the spring of '22. He eventually stepped down ahead of the spring of '22 and served as an advisor for the next few years.

Phoebe Martin

Phoebe Martin was hired by Will Stomber in the summer of '21 to aid in the construction of and overseeing of the VC division. When Will left, Phoebe became the Director of VC and oversaw the division in the fall of '21 and spring '22. During her time there she hired Trip Gormon to become the second-ever VP of VC and she recruited VC's first clients, taught its education, and oversaw the first VC analyst teams. She left GCAP at th end of the spring of '22

Jake Magaldi

Jake Magaldi had been a longtime associate of GCAP until he joined the new group in the summer of 2021 as the Director of Events. He oversaw GCAP's official community events, including hallmarks like speed-friending, powerpoint night, etc. Jake oversaw events in the fall of '21 and the spring of '22. After the spring Jake became a senior advisor