Diana has more than twenty-five years of experience financially backing and building sustainability and purpose‐led companies.
Diana is a Managing Director at Cranemere, a holding company that provides liquidity and growth capital to privately held, middle-market companies. With permanent capital, Cranemere has no structural requirement to exit its operating companies, and has a “buy, build, and hold” long-term ownership approach with the founder and family owned companies Cranemere partners with.
Diana leads Cranemere’s Consumer Group that is focused on “better for you” food, and other diverse sectors including beauty, personal care, and pet. Diana also leads Cranemere’s sustainability and social impact strategy across Cranemere’s holdings. Climate change, and workforce financial security, and broad-based wealth creation are three of Cranemere’s priorities.
Prior to joining Cranemere, Diana was a Partner at Expansion Capital Partners, a growth stage growth equity fund where she invested in green building and energy efficiency, taking companies public and executing successful trade sales. Investments included Orion Energy, DIRTT Environmental Solutions, and CPower.
Diana is a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council where she chairs the investment
committee that oversees NRDC’s endowment and is on the Advisory Board of Duke University’s Nicholas
Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability.
Diana was an executive producer of Nathan Havey’s documentary, Beyond Zero, which tells the inspiring story of Interface CEO Ray Anderson and his team’s journey to become the first zero climate emissions carpet company in the US. In addition to winning awards at film festivals, the film has been screened for several Conscious Capitalism chapters.
Diana has an MBA from Harvard and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Duke University. She is based in New York City.