Diana Markaki – Bartholdi is an international M&A lawyer and experienced board member in both public and private companies.  She has served on the Board of Directors of ELLAKTOR, a publicly traded infrastructure group doing global business in more than 30 countries, and on the Board of Directors of 5G Ventures, which manages Phaistos Fund, a mutual fund that invests in companies active in the research and development of 5G applications and services.​

Over the course of her career Diana has managed international and domestic equity offerings (IPOs and secondary listings) and large M&A projects (with an aggregate value of more than EUR 50 billion), living and doing business in New York, Milan, London, Athens and Zurich.  She has more than 15 years of experience in regulated markets (energy & utilities) and has held leadership positions in Europe’s largest energy infrastructure project.  As a Global Director across 60 countries in 5 continents she has managed multidisciplinary, culturally diverse and geographically spread teams, and has demonstrated global project management capabilities in driving successfully projects.

She holds a Law degree and LL.M. in International and European Law from the University of Athens, as well as an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School.

Diana is the founder of “the Boardroom”, the first private club for senior female executives in Switzerland who aspire to be board members. She is also Swiss Chair of the global campaign “50/50 Women on Boards”, member of Women Corporate Directors, angel investor in female-founded startups and mentor of high-potential women.

Faye joined Advance in April 2020. In the position of Program Manager, she brings a wealth of experience from her corporate career at Thomson Reuters, where most recently she was a Talent & Development Director responsible for Diversity & Inclusion and Culture Change. She is enthusiastic about working with Advance’s member companies to help them move the gender diversity needle. In so doing, greater societal change can be achieved.

Faye holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and has further developed her knowledge and skills during her career with NLP, Facilitation and Grief Counselling Certificates. In September 2020, she certified as a Professional Integral Coach (PCC) with The Centre for Coaching, Switzerland.

Faye is British and has lived in both Geneva and Zurich for a total of 14 years. She is married to a Dutch partner and they live in Zurich with their two young daughters.