Love Goel

Chairman and CEO, GVG Capital

Love Goel is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. CNBC called him “The Father of Multi-Channel Retail” for building the world’s first billion-dollar eCommerce business in the 1990s, at Macys. He is best known for leading the world’s most successful digital transformations—helping dozens of iconic companies build the largest digital businesses in their markets. He is the only person in the world to lead a company to simultaneously build both the largest digital and physical business in a trillion-dollar market, and did it in 4 markets including Global Retail, Global CPG, and Global 3P Logistics/Services.

At age 27, The Wall Street Journal profiled Love on its front page as a “Digital-Whiz” because he sold his first software company at age 12; helped build Apple’s largest store in his teens; and by age 26 built the world’s largest eCommerce business and a billion-dollar venture capital firm. By age 28, he built a billion-dollar software company in Silicon Valley as CEO.

Love has created more than 100,000 new jobs and $100 billion in shareholder value as a CEO, Board Chair and investor—by building dozens of billion-dollar digital market leaders across sectors like AI, retail, food, finance, logistics, health, fashion, luxury, travel and automotive across North and South America, Europe and Asia. He also coinvested with/advised iconic companies like Apple, Walmart, P&G, JPMorgan, AT&T, Disney, Nike, Marriott, United Health, UPS, Google, Amazon, Cargill, CVS, Home Depot, Zara, Tesco, ABInbev, LVMH, VW, Tata, Reliance, 3G and Carlyle.

Love is one of the most successful private equity and hedge fund investors of his generation. In 2001, Love founded GVG Capital, the world’s #1 private equity firm for digital transformation. In 2021, Love founded GVG AI, the world’s #1 AI-powered, multi-strategy hedge fund, which invests exclusively for the Goel Family Office.

Love is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow, Co-Chair of the Goel Foundation, former Chairman of several non-profits including The Fashion School at Kent—which he built into one of the top fashion schools globally; and taught at top universities like Stanford and Harvard. He has donated millions of dollars to help people in need. He is passionate about epigenetics | biohacking and practices yoga | meditation daily.

Love’s rags-to-riches “American Dream” life story is featured in several books, newspapers and magazines. He worked three jobs and won scholarships to attend and graduate from the University of Minnesota in Computer Science and Finance as a Regents’ Scholar.