Endeavor

18 BEDY YANG 500 Startups United States Bedy Yang is Managing Partner at 500 Startups, a seed and incubator fund in Silicon Valley with investments in over 50 countries. At 500 Startups, she is responsible for Brazil and Spanish- speaking investments and the investor training program (www.500.vc). She is also founder of +INNOVATORS, an organization that became the epicenter and resource for Brazilian tech founders with a network of over 10,000 people. Bedy was featured as an innovator in Forbes Brazil and America's Quarterly, and she is a member of the Kauffman Fellowship Program. CHRIS WINSHIP FTV Capital United States ÖMER ÜNSAL Aventio MB Turkey ANGEL URIBE TPG Growth United States Chris leads investments in payments & transaction processing and enterprise technology & services at FTV Capital. Chris has 17 years of growth equity investing experience. Prior to joining FTV Capital, Chris was an analyst with Salomon Smith Barney's media and telecommunications group. Prior to Salomon Smith Barney, Chris worked at Putnam Investments in Putnam's sales and marketing divisions. Chris received a B.A. from Dartmouth College. Ömer Ünsal has been a financial advisor concentrating on cross border M&A, private placements, and balance sheet advisory service for more than 17 years. Ömer spent the first part of his career working for Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Warburg's leveraged finance and industrial M&A teams in New York City. Since 2006 he has been the Founder and Managing Director of Odin Financial Advisors, headquartered in Istanbul. Odin Financial Advisors has become one of the most respected advisory firms in Turkey since its inception, ranking in the top-tier of the Turkish M&A market. In 2016, Ömer established a new merchant banking firm named Aventio MB which solely focuses on technology advisory and investments in CEEMENA, South Africa, Turkey and Pakistan. Ömer is a Board Member of the Turkish- Singapore Business Council as well as an Endeavor Mentor in Turkey. Angel has spent the last 15 years in private equity in Latin America, recently as a Senior Advisor to TPG Growth where he leads investment efforts in Latin America and previously as a partner at Southern Cross Group, one of the largest and longest-standing PE firms in the region with more than $2B in assets under management.

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