About Camillus

Camillus Partners is backed by institutional and individual investors with over a billion under management and led by Alissa Orlando, an entrepreneur championing employee ownership. She is looking to lead and grow a mission-driven business.

Previously, she served as co-founder and Managing Director of The Drivers Cooperative, which she built from scratch into the largest worker cooperative in the country in less than two years.  The cooperative has generated millions in earnings for drivers, transported thousands of low-income New Yorkers with disabilities and Medicaid patients, released driver-owned mobile apps, raised over $2M from debt investors, and was featured by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, The New York Times, NPR, and several other news outlets.  

Prior to the cooperative, Alissa spent four years building consumer technology companies across Africa. She founded an investment advisory business that raised over $50M for African entrepreneurs and was acquired by a venture capital firm, headed Uber’s operations across East Africa, and ran Rocket Internet’s food delivery business in Rwanda.  She was also a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown and received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

She grew up in Syracuse, New York, the daughter of a public school teacher and an independent real estate appraiser. Her little sister is a traveling physical therapist. She lives in New York, and her husband is a lifelong New Yorker and urban planner. She loves to teach dance classes, read, go to Broadway shows, and travel.