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16 2 0 19 E N D E AVO R O U T L I E R S MONA ATAYA Mumzworld NADI R KHAM ISSA Hello Group N EVZAT AYDI N yemeksepeti.com I have been an entrepreneur for 19 years and have been building successful brands for many years. I am also a mother of 3 beautiful boys and the second of 5 siblings. I live my life with a restless desire to work, contribute and do something meaningful. I am in a constant state of learning and growth and continue to be awed and inspired by everything around me. I am driven by creating meaningful positive social impact and ensuring that everything I touch will have a trickle effect that can support the ecosystem around me. I am obsessed with the small details and obsessed with delivering what I commit. I raise my children with the commitment to hard work and doing what others are afraid to do. I believe I see things most people around me don't see – perhaps that's due to my intense curiosity and desire to learn. I believe I can control somethings, but I also cannot control most things – the challenge is creating impact with that minimal control. My restless passion to create results means I am running at a hundred miles an hour at all times. I was born in Apartheid South Africa to parents of Indian descent. After studying mathematics, i got a job on the trading desk of an investment bank. This quickly led to me moving to London and getting promoted to Managing Director of the trading desk. This was an incredibly exciting career but felt empty in the sense that it offered virtually no benefit to society other than generating profits for a giant investment bank. I decided that I wanted to spend my life building something that would benefit society and marginalised communities. I then quit my job and started the Hello Group with great confidence. During the first 6 months, i made every mistake in the book and ended up losing 95% of my life savings. A few innovations later we managed to get cashflow positive and today operate in the telecom and mobile payments space in 38 countries and employ 1200 people. Nevzat Aydın is the co-founder and global CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the leading online food delivery portal in Turkey. Born in 1976, Nevzat Aydın holds a computer engineering degree from Boğazici University. After completing his studies he went to University of San Francisco to do his MBA. During his stay in Silicon Valley he had his inspiration to start Yemeksepeti.com and returned back to Istanbul to pursue his endeavor. In May 2015, Yemeksepeti was acquired by the global leader Delivery Hero with the biggest valuation ever yet in Turkish Internet History. Nevzat Aydın was among 150 entrepreneurs invited from all around the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by former President of the USA Barack Obama in April 2010. In 2013 and 2015, he was named number one on Fortune's "40 Under 40" list. He was also honored with the Philanthropy Award of American Turkish Society in 2017. Currently, Mr. Aydın is a board member of Endeavor Turkey, TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey), Young Entrepreneurs and American Turkish Society, advisory board member of Allianz, trustee board member of Boğaziçi University and a founding member of Galata Business Angels. As an active angel investor he currently has 28 investments. Nevzat Aydın is also a board member of MAVI Company.