Challenging the status quo, making
dreams happen and being grateful.

Founder/CEO | Investor | Mentor | Advisor

Awarded one of the 2016 Empowered Women of the Year by WWD / Variety / Ciroc alongside Kathryn Minshew, Sophia Amoruso & other inspiring, empowering women.
✚ Recognized as one of Techweek's New York 2017 Talent Cultivators.
✚ Named among "Best of Tech on Twitter" by CB Insights.

Gesche is the Founder/CEO of Dreamers & Doers, a private collective that amplifies the entrepreneurial pursuits of extraordinary women through visibility opportunities, resource exchange, and collective support. Beyond that, Dreamers & Doers has built an entrepreneurial ecosystem of over 30k womxn globally.

Gesche's views on the tech space, and beyond, have been featured on Bloomberg TV, CNNMoney, Business Insider, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, NYT, Refinery29, Broadly/Vice, and many other major media outlets - as well as through the United Nations, where she spoke during the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Prior to founding Dreamers & Doers, Gesche held senior positions at multiple venture-backed startups in roles covering growth, strategy, finance, business operations, business development, and more. She also spent five years as an investor at a healthcare-focused hedge fund (~$3bn AUM, SAC spin-off).

Gesche is half German, half Chinese-Malaysian, and was born in Africa.