As a Financial Advisor, Senior Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Mehmet has over 15 years of experience in helping high net worth individual and family clientele shape and implement their overall asset allocation strategies.  Within The Continuum Group at Morgan Stanley, Mehmet provides institutional-level perspective and service while working with clients on their overall investment picture. He leverages the full resources of his team and Morgan Stanley to build tailored portfolios designed to meet the specific investment objectives and needs of each individual client.

Melis Kahya joined General Atlantic in 2015 and is currently a Vice President, where she focuses on Retail & Consumer and Business Services. Before joining General Atlantic, Melis was a Vice President at TSG Consumer Partners where she focused on investments in the retail and consumer sectors. Previously, she was an analyst in the Investment Banking division at J.P. Morgan where she was focused on the consumer and retail sectors. Melis holds a B.S. from Yale University where she double majored in Electrical Engineering and Economics and graduated with distinction. She also earned her M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

‘’Pinar is equally comfortable in the executive lunch room full of older Irish- and Italian-Americans and in a group of new immigrants from Middle East. I have seen her successfully mentor young people, Muslim, Christian and Jewish. Her passion for humanitarian causes globally is only exceeded by her deep devotion to Turkish people,’’ says Roman Regelman, Partner and Managing Director of the Boston Consulting Group, about her.

Emre Sahin is an award-winning director. Variety magazine called Emre a “multi hyphenate talent to watch.” The Turkish press has dubbed Emre “the new face of modern Turkish cinema.”  Born in Istanbul to Turkish and American parents, Emre’s two passions in life are soccer and filmmaking. These passions converged when he studied film at Emerson College on a soccer scholarship. After graduating from Emerson College, Emre began his career as a Director of Photography. Trained at the prestigious Panavision internship program under masters like Vilmos Zsigmund, ASC, he later went on to shoot, direct and edit non-fiction programs for the major U.S. cable networks. The first show he created was Cities of The Underworld for the History Channel. Since then he has created many hit shows in the U.S.