Marko Dimitrijevic

Marko is the founder and chairman of Volta Global. A real estate developer, entrepreneur, investor, photographer, and author, Marko founded Volta Global with the goal of building a transformational real estate group around a philosophy of creating long-term value for our firm, our employees, and the communities in which we operate. Born and raised in Switzerland, he was early to spot and capitalize on opportunities in European self-storage. At Volta Global Marko oversees global strategy, investments, and capital allocation.

Marko spent the early part of his business career managing large securities portfolios in Switzerland and New York. As an entrepreneur, he founded and lead several investment management companies which grew to over $3 billion in assets under management and 50+ employees in the US and Singapore. During that period, Marko was a pioneer of emerging markets investing and was one of the earliest Western investors in China, Russia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. 

Marko is the author of Frontier Investor: How to Prosper in the Next Emerging Markets, which Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, hailed as "brilliant” and “a tour de force.” His business insights and interviews have been featured in Time, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.  

Marko is also an award-winning photographer whose work has been published in numerous magazines including The Sunday Times, Travel + Leisure, Professional Photographer, Ocean Geographic, and many others . He is the author of BIG: Big Animals, Big Emotions, a coffee table book featuring his best wildlife pictures. 

Among his community and philanthropic activities, he currently serves on the board of The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis and the conservation NGO Beneath the Waves. Marko is a past board member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Board, the Miami Science Museum, Make-A-Wish Southern Florida,  the US Pasteur Foundation, and others. Additionally, Marko established the Stanford Graduate School of Business Emerging Markets Innovation Fund and founded the Miami Science Museum Underwater Festival. He has also endowed numerous high school and university scholarships.

Marko graduated from the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and earned an MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

In addition to photography, Marko enjoys traveling with his wife Shelly, snorkeling, skiing, and paddle boarding.