ESPIRA INVESTMENTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the BOARD
- FOUNDING PARTNER
Job Titles:
- ADVISORY BOARD & INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
Job Titles:
- ADVISORY BOARD
- Member of the Ogilvy Leadership Team
Dita is a member of the Ogilvy leadership team within the Czech Republic and is responsible for their public relations division; helping to develop and protect the reputations of companies and their management teams. She is recognised as a PR thought leader and been a trusted advisor to executives across a variety of industries for over 26 years. Dita's expertise is highly valued as are her insights into brand awareness, public relations, internal communication, and crisis communication. She is an active mentor for both the Odyssey Program and European Women on Boards. She is also a board member of the NEURON Fund and of the BONA Foundation.
Emilia has been executing private equity investments in the Central European region for over 15 years. Prior to co-founding ESPIRA, Emília was the Head of the Czech Republic and Slovakia for PineBridge Investments CEE, a Central European focused private equity firm managing over 500 million. Earlier in her career, Emília was a member of the investment teams of Benson Oak Capital and Penta Investments. Emília has been involved in numerous transactions in a variety of sectors including health care, consumer goods, manufacturing and services. Emilia's track-record encompasses deals ranging from early-stage, to control buyouts, buy-and-build, and late-stage growth capital investments.
Emília is also an active supporter and advocate for the power of impact investing in social enterprises via her non-executive role as a member of the investment committee of Tilia Impact Ventures. Tilia aims to support ‘impact-first' entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic.
Emília graduated with honours with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and holds a Master's Degree in Finance from Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica Slovakia.