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, and Dorothy Vickery, a seasoned arts and media executive. They are looking to lead and grow a mission-driven business.

Alissa 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. 

Dorothy is a storyteller and brand expert with a specialization in franchise-building and intellectual property. She started her career working for the Oscar and Tony-winning production company, Scott Rudin Productions, before a four-year stint in Creative Strategy at Nickelodeon and Paramount. Her projects have appeared on Paramount, Disney, Apple TV, Netflix, and more. She graduated with honors from New York University.

Alissa and Dorothy are former roommates, close friends, and co-producers of plays and musicals on Broadway.