Mounissa Chodieva is the founder of Vault Investments and has been instrumental in its growth into a hugely successful innovation and technology investment fund.
Mounissa is an international entrepreneur and investor with a talent for finding successful investments and brilliant innovations.
Aside from Vault Investments, she is also the founder of Vault Couture, a pioneering wardrobe-management and sustainable fashion company that has attracted positive interest from some of the world’s most famous media brands including Vogue and Tatler.
Mounissa is an active philanthropist and director of the International Chodiev Foundation, which works to transform the lives of young people around the world through education, health, the arts and culture, particularly in Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine and Japan.
She dedicates time to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and to the British Fashion Trust, where she is a member of the Advisory Committee.
Mounissa started her career at Nicholson, Graham and Jones LLP in London, having graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Southampton University. She then joined CIM Global AG, a Swiss natural-resources conglomerate, where she worked on the company’s preparation for a Primary Listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
She later held a number of senior management roles, including deputy head of corporate finance and head of corporate communications and investor relations at the Eurasian Resources Group (ERG).
In 2013, Mounissa switched her focus to international asset management, private equity and technology-based start-ups. Today she is an active investor, managing a multi-industry portfolio with a global focus on the natural resources and luxury goods sectors.
Mounissa is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program and is currently studying for her PhD. She has a Bachelor of Laws degree from Southampton University in the UK.
She is fluent in English, Russian, French and Uzbek.
