Gelila Zenebe Bekele writes about AI in private markets. Gelila serves as Director of Aone Partners, a search fund partnership built to acquire and grow enterprise software businesses. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. Prior to Aone, Gelila worked at BlackRock, partnering with the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, foundations, and endowments. She also served as a Director at a high growth software holding company that acquires and scales vertical market SaaS businesses. Gelila has published studies with Harvard Business Review used in classrooms at Stanford’s flagship entrepreneurship courses, covering IPOs, search funds, M&A, and venture capital fund formation. At Forbes, Gelila covers emerging technologies and new models of capital allocation that are shaping private markets.Gelila grew up in Addis Ababa and lives in Manhattan, New York.