Daria is an executive at Crest Investment Company, a diversified family office focused on investing in, and operating businesses in media and entertainment, technology, hospitality, real estate, and energy. Crest has offices in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. Daria supervises media assets RealClear Politics, Al-Monitor, a leading news site on the Middle East, and Levantine Films, a NY-based film financing company. She also oversees The Bastion Collection including a Michelin-grade fine dining restaurant group, The Woodward hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, and Stettler, a heritage Swiss chocolate brand, as well as Muzo Emerald Colombia, a group of enterprises that covers end-to-end the value chain of the Colombian emerald.
Daria works as Director of Engagement at the New Levant Initiative, highlighting Middle East cultural contributions and partnered with the Rand Corporation in proposing a model for regional economic integration.
Daria specialized in International Law at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and received her M.A. in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in 2016.