Diana Propper de Callejon

Diana Propper de Callejon is a Managing Director at Cranemere, a holding company that acquires privately held, middle-market companies in the United States and Europe. Prior to joining Cranemere, she was a Partner at Expansion Capital Partners, a growth stage venture fund where she invested in green building and energy efficiency, taking companies public and executing successful trade sales. Callejon is a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council where she chairs the investment committee that oversees NRDC’s endowment and is on the Advisory Board of Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. She is a visiting professor in the Economic Department at Duke, where she teaches the undergraduate seminar, Financing Climate Solutions in Private Markets.

Callejon was an executive producer of Nathan Havey’s award winning documentary, Beyond Zero, which tells the inspiring story of Interface CEO Ray Anderson and his team’s journey to become the first zero climate emissions carpet company in the US. She has an MBA from Harvard and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Duke University.