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Dalia Cohen
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Dalia is the Co-Founder and COO of Confluence Investors. Dalia began her career at Morgan Stanley working in Mergers & Acquisitions in New York and Hong Kong, before joining Global High Yield Group in research. She went on to manage business development and fund raising for Oak Hill Advisors, JLL Partners and Trimaran Advisors. At Trimaran, Dalia was also a member of the investment committee and led all non-investing activities.
Dalia brings management and technology industry experience through her roles respectively as CFO at Small World Sports and Vice President of Corporate Development at DoubleClick, Inc (which has since been acquired by Google) where she worked on strategy, mergers and partnerships. She was also the founding CEO of Cassava Connect (now Cassava Smartech), a division of Econet Telecommunications and a Financial Technology business. EcoCash, one of the largest mobile money businesses in Africa, is managed by this division.
Dalia holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in International Business from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and an undergraduate degree from Columbia University.