Diana Potapenko spent over a decade with Macquarie Group in Toronto, London and New York as Vice President in leadership roles across portfolio and risk management, asset acquisitions and business integrations within Macquarie Capital and Macquarie Asset & Finance. She joined the family business specializing in laser technologies and real estate, and is now managing new real estate development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Diana’s parallel initiatives include a new venture in bentonite mining and business consulting for startups.