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. Crest has offices in New York, NY, Washington, DC, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, CA, and Geneva, Switzerland.
Daria supervises Crest’s digital media assets including Al-Monitor, a leading independent news site on the Middle East founded in 2012. Crest also owns and operates August Night Pictures, a NY-based film financing company; The Bastion Collection, a fine dining restaurant group awarded 10 Michelin stars since 2019; Stettler, a heritage Swiss chocolate brand founded in 1947; and Muzo Emerald Colombia, a group of enterprises that covers end-to-end the value chain of the Colombian emerald. In 2021, Crest opened The Woodward hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, managed by Auberge Resorts Collection.
Daria has worked as Director of 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 served as an Ambassador to UNICEF, and has received awards in recognition for service to global communities from the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.