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, mining and energy sectors. Crest has offices in New York, NY, Washington, DC, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, CA, and Geneva, Switzerland.
Daria supervises media assets RealClear Politics, Al-Monitor, a leading independent news site on the Middle East, and Levantine Films, a NY-based film financing company. She also oversees The Bastion Collection, 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 has worked as Director of Engagement at the New Levant Initiative, a foundation 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. She serves as an Ambassador to UNICEF, and has received awards in recognition for service to global communities from the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.