GAPSA Leadership
Ilia Kozhelskii
Deputy Director for
Group Management
Ilia Kozhelskii is a first-year student at Wharton and the SAS pursuing an MBA/MA International studies. He speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian. Ilia hopes to use his international background and professional experience in commodity trading and entrepreneurship to contribute to advance the frontier of deep-tech innovation at Penn.
He is a member of Penn Hyperloop (Team 2025), the two-time winning team of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in Austin, Texas.
As a part of the 2025-2026 GAPSA Executive Board, Ilia helps promote collaboration and build bridges across different university departments.
Email: kozilia@wharton.upenn.edu