Angela Allen

Golden Seeds

Managing Director

Angela is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel investing group focused on funding high-potential women-led businesses. A member since 2021, she is also proud to be a Founding Member of Golden Seeds’ Chicago Chapter and helps lead the group’s local efforts to invest in local female entrepreneurs and develop a community of like-minded investors.

With 30+ years of experience including C-suite positions in sales & marketing, human resources and operations, she is passionate about helping leaders and organizations grow. She has experience leading organizations through significant growth, successfully navigating through early stage, VC and Private Equity recapitalizations and a successful exit. She enjoys helping other
leaders drive and manage the dynamics of high growth environments and brings her unique combination of functional expertise to her investing, board work and leadership coaching.

Angela holds an MBA in Marketing & Strategy from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a B.A. in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan. She also serves on
several boards, for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Angela also follows her many interests including travel, competitive swimming and yoga, wine (she’s Level 3 WSET certified), cooking, and enjoying time with husband and two adult children.