Prior to joining the GT team, Natasha was an Analyst at Developing World Markets, a US-based fund manager specializing in investments in microfinance institutions across the emerging markets. She worked on origination, analysis, negotiation and servicing of credit investments to microfinance institutions in the post-Soviet space, focusing particularly on the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia. She successfully brought to close six deals during her time with the firm, the largest of which was $5 million (the average investment of the funds was $1-2 million). She also acted in a business development capacity for DWM, raising the firm's profile in her region's microfinance funding market by establishing several new client relationships.

Natasha's previous work experience includes a position as a financial Analyst at Mongolia International Capital Corporation, the first Mongolian investment bank based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 2007 to 2008. While in Mongolia she worked on a multi-billion dollar energy project with a consortium of European and international banks providing the project financing, the goal of which was to eliminate the country's energy dependence on its neighbors for both electricity and transportation fuels. Carbon capture was an integral component of the project's design. She also led a project team on an $80 million investment in a mining firm operating in Mongolia by a Japanese conglomerate, and participated in preparation for a $400 million IPO of a Mongolian mining firm on the HKSE with a major international investment bank. In addition, she closed a total of $30 million worth of deals with international investment banks and prominent Mongolian firms in the banking, agriculture, transport, mining services, hospitality and telecommunications sectors. She participated in discussions with the regulatory authority of the Mongolian Stock Exchange regarding the drafting of procedures for initial public offerings and worked with numerous international financial institutions engaged in capital markets reform projects on the ground in Mongolia.

Natasha graduated in three years from Columbia University, where she studied both Political Science and Math.  With the assistance of an Harriman Institute Fellowship, she completed an honors thesis that examined the impact of multilateral aid agencies and multinational mining corporations on the sovereigncy of landlocked, resource rich newly independent states from sub-Saharan Africa and the CIS. She speaks French, Russian, and basic Spanish.