Melek Pulatkonak is the Founder and Curator of the TurkishWIN. She outlines her strategic intuition for launching the TurkishWIN and shares with us her dream of growing it to 10,000 women with cultural, professional ties to Turkey.
This talk was recorded by Iltek Media.
Melek Pulatkonak works in the Strategic & Emerging Business Team at Microsoft.
Most recently, Melek Pulatkonak was the President & COO of hakia, a semantic search technology company. Prior to that, she was the Associate Partner of the Star Venture Group. Prior to that she was the Advisor to the Chairman of the Istanbul Stock Exchange. Melek started her career as a Research Associate at the New York Stock Exchange where some of her academic work was published. She holds an MBA from the Columbia Business School and a B.S.c. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In her play time, Melek organizes TEDxGotham, leads the International Committee at the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York, advises Girls in Tech NY and is a mentor for the ER Accelerator. Melek is the Curator of the TurkishWIN.