Ms Nataliya Johnson (ex-Kozachenko) is a London-based, Ukraine-born Entrepreneur, Corporate Financier, and Public Speaker. Prior to founding Vasant Capital, Ms Johnson was running for 8 years a London-based finance advisory company, she was the Founder of, covering the UK, Ukraine, and the Baltics, with the focus on real estate, infrastructure, telecoms, and information technologies. Prior to that, she worked in the commercial real estate and merchant banking divisions of Morgan Stanley in London. Nataliya has over 19-year experience of working with entrepreneurs in the UK and in the CIS region.

Ms Johnson has been a speaker at the international high-profile industry conferences on FDI attraction into the CEE Region. In December 2020, Nataliya will be co-leading a 60-minute discussion on the subject of supporting female leadership in the finance environment around the globe at SuperReturn Growth Markets Virtual 2020, attended by 700+ senior decision makers, including 300+ GP’s and 200+ LP’s from all over the world (https://informaconnect.com/superreturn-growth- markets-virtual/agenda/4/). This year, Ms Nataliya Johnson (ex-Kozachenko) has become - on a personal invitation from the CEO - a member of Tech London Advocates, an 8,000-member body that is part of the Global Tech Advocates with a mission to create one million and a half digital and technical jobs in the UK by 2023. Furthermore, this year Ms Johnson has also become one of the founding members of Tuesday Club with its strength being in its curated network of members and speakers, who share diverse perspectives and multiple viewpoints to eliminate blind spots and increase our understanding of tomorrow’s world.