Vania Schlogel is Founder and Managing Partner of Atwater Capital, a media and entertainment sector-focused investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California with assets under management of approximately $400 million.

Prior to founding Atwater in 2017, Vania served as a senior executive at several leading companies, including as Chief Investment Officer of Roc Nation, and was a member of KKR's Private Equity team, where she specialized in the media sector and launched the Growth Equity division. Vania began her career in the Leveraged Finance and Capital Markets groups at Goldman Sachs in London and Los Angeles.

Vania serves as a director on a number of boards, including as Chairperson of Mediawan US, the holding company of Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, and of LEONINE Studios, Germany's leading film and TV studio. She is also on the Boards of Banc of California; wiip Productions, a Los Angeles-based film and TV studio; 88rising, a multi-media music label and live events company; and Freepik, the digital content platform. She was formerly the Chairperson of Epidemic Sound, Atwater’s first unicorn investment valued at $1.4 billion in 2021; as well as formerly on the Boards of BMG, the world's largest independent music publisher; Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the FTSE 250 music IP company; and Pets at Home, the large U.K. retailer. Ms. Schlogel is a graduate of UCLA, summa cum laude, with a degree in Business Economics and Minor in Accounting.