Cristina Piedrahita is an investor with an extensive investment experience in listed and non-listed companies including various funds in Greece and direct investments in a diversified portfolio of private investments. Her skill set and breadth of experience is derived from over 30 years of investment experience across multiple sectors (technology, telecoms, utilities, retail, food and beverage, materials, financials), geographies (Emerging Markets, Europe, and USA) and traction with multiple business models (family owned, for profit, non-profit, public vs private sector).

From 2002 until 2016 she was a member of the Emerging Markets team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management where she was the co-Portfolio Manager for the Latin American Fund and the Latin assets of the Emerging Markets fund directly responsible for managing over $3bn in assets. Prior, she was a Latin American equity analyst at Fidelity Investments, HSBC Asset Management and Baring Asset Management.

She is a member of various boards including Make a Wish Greece, AFI- Action Finance Initiative (microfinance in Greece), MIT Sloan Alumni, Brown Alumni Association, and Vice President of the Brown Club of Greece.  In addition, she is an independent member of the investment committee at Halcyon Equity Partners, the first female led private equity growth fund in Greece.  She holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science from Brown University and an MBA in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.