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EMex Europe: The Emerging Manager Exchange
September 2024
Zürich, Switzerland

Nataliya Johnson
CEO & Founder at Vasant Capital
Speaker

Profile

Nataliya Johnson is a UK-based Investor, serial Entrepreneur, Corporate Financier, and Public
Speaker. In January 2018, she set up Vasant Capital, a London-based family office, an investment vehicle focused on viable investment opportunities in the SME sector across different industries [Information Technologies, Telecoms, Ports Infrastructure, Commercial Real Estate, and Renewables], enjoying the vast sophisticated investor and business owners network with a global outreach she has developed in many years.

Prior to that, for over 8 years, Nataliya was running a London-based finance advisory company,
covering the UK, Ukraine, and the Baltics, with the focus on Real Estate, Infrastructure, Telecoms, and Information Technologies. Prior to that, she worked in the Commercial Real Estate and Merchant Banking divisions of Morgan Stanley in London. Nataliya has 22-year experience of working with entrepreneurs in the UK and in the CIS region. Ms Johnson has been a regular speaker at the highly-regarded international industry conferences for over 11 years on the areas of her expertise as well as at one of the UK renown universities on the
strategic leadership.

Ms Johnson was a guest on Ukrainian national TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Uxm1_V7YwEM AND http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KwbOJCAtdG8), wrote for and was interviewed by the FT publications on FDI into and awareness of Ukraine. In 2013, she was appointed the Catalyst UKTI member, responsible for promoting UK globally as an attractive business destination.

In 2020, Nataliya was appointed a member of Tech London Advocates, an
8,000-firm body that is part of the Global Tech Advocates. Ms Johnson received a Master’s degree in International Business Management, BA in International Economics and Entrepreneurship from the Kyiv National Economic University and am a graduate of
the Corporate Finance Program at Harvard and of the Executive Entrepreneurship Program at Cass Business School. Nataliya is a British and Ukrainian National and is fluent in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Her hobbies are travelling, reading, writing, musicals, spending time with her family and in nature.

The best way to reach out to Nataliya is via e-mail nataliya.johnson@vasantcapital.com

Agenda Sessions

  • How should emerging managers approach ESG to optimise investments?

    12:25

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