Milena is the Group Head of Corporate Development & Capital Markets at Validus, where she oversees equity and debt capital raising, strategic transactions and investments across the Group, based out of Singapore under the Holding Company. She is focused on the origination and management of structured finance solutions to support Validus’ FinTech SME lending strategy within the Southeast Asian region.

Prior to her current role, Milena started her career in the global operations team at Novartis AG (COO and CTO Office) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has worked in the Financial Services vertical of PwC Japan, as part of the cross-regional team responsible for building the financial risk management function (focused on ASEAN bank clients) between PwC's Southeast Asia and Japan businesses. In Singapore, she transitioned to capital markets services startup Call Levels, leading commercial operations for the company, prior to joining Validus in 2018.

Milena holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University.