ALYSSA Lovegrove

Alyssa Lovegrove is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University and the Academic Director of the Georgetown Pivot Program, a business and entrepreneurship certificate program for individuals with prior criminal convictions.  The Pivot Program combines classroom training with internships in professional settings, and is designed to enable individuals transitioning back into the community to access careers that might have been otherwise out of reach. 

Alyssa began her career in as a corporate relationship manager at Bankers Trust Company in New York, and later joined management consultants McKinsey & Company, where she focused on the financial services and consumer retailing sectors in the US and Europe. She left consulting to become the Co-Founder of the Great Little Trading Company (GLTC Ltd), a UK-based online and mail-order retailer of children’s household products. After ten years, Alyssa stepped down from day-to-day management of the company and became an advisor to both commercial and social sector start-ups. 

Since her return to the US in 2007, Alyssa has been focusing on the development of innovative entrepreneurship and employment programs for individuals facing economic and social challenges. She is currently an advisor to BroadFutures, which provides internship opportunities to learning-disabled young adults, and Dog Tag Bakery, an entrepreneurship-based transition program for disabled military veterans and their caregivers. At Georgetown, Alyssa also serves as Senior Advisor to the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative.