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Managing Director and Head of Consumer for EMEA at General Atlantic
Managing Director · General Atlantic
Melis Kahya Akar — Managing Director · General Atlantic · London Area, United Kingdom.
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Melis Kahya Akar is a Managing Director at General Atlantic and Head of Consumer for EMEA, based in London. She leads consumer investments across EMEA and also focuses on Turkey. She joined the firm in New York in 2015 after serving as a Vice President at TSG Consumer Partners, where she worked on retail and consumer investments. Earlier, she was an investment-banking analyst at J.P. Morgan. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Managing Director and Head of Consumer for EMEACurrent
General Atlantic · London, England, United Kingdom
Apr 2015 – Present