Ms. Dietze is a tenured investment professional with more than three decades of investing globally across numerous asset classes. She is the Chief Investment Officer in the Investment Office of Brown University. Prior to Brown, she was the Director of Private Equity at Bowdoin College. Ms. Dietze joined Bowdoin from Fortress Investment Group where she was the Managing Director in the Credit Funds group.
Before joining Fortress, Ms. Dietze was a General Partner in venture capital funds, NextPoint Partners, an early-stage, technology focused fund, and Columba Capital Corporation, an IT and communications focused private equity fund, where she was a member of the Investment Committees and held board roles in over a dozen companies. Ms. Dietze came to venture capital after founding, leading and eventually selling a software company. Preceding Ms. Dietze's experience as an entrepreneur and investing in entrepreneurs, she spent several years working in Russia and Central Europe as an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation, the private investment arm of the World Bank. She began her career as an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Goldman Sachs & Co.
Ms. Dietze received a B.A. cum laude in Politics from Princeton University and a M.A. in International Economics and Russian Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.