Roberta Brzezinski is a global growth equity investor. She leads Capitalworks Investment Management’s investment strategy across the middle-income countries of Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, serving as the CEO and a director of Capitalworks Emerging Markets Acquisition Corporation, and also as Managing Partner of Capitalworks Emerging Markets Advisor, LP.
Prior to Capitalworks, Roberta was a managing director with Canadian pension fund CDPQ, originating private-markets transactions in Latin America and India. Prior to CDPQ, she was CIO of TAU Investment Management, focusing on impact investing in South and Southeast Asia. Before that, Roberta was one of the original partners of Abris Capital, a growth buyout firm investing in Central Europe, and served as Ukraine partner for Abris.
In the 2000s, Roberta was an investor with the AIG Infrastructure Funds, where she managed investments in North and Southeast Asia. She began her career at IFC, where she served as Ukraine country manager and led a series of private-sector development programs including small-scale privatization, winning an award from the World Bank president. She also led a CIS-focused private equity practice for fund manager NCH Capital.
Roberta holds an MBA with honors from Georgetown University and an AB magna cum laude from Harvard College. She speaks fluent French and Russian and understands Ukrainian. She is based in New York and is a US citizen.
