Neslihan Tonbul is an inspirational corporate leader with over 30 years of international banking and senior management experience. Starting out in her family's fashion retail business, she began her professional career in finance in 1983 at The Irving Trust Company (now BNY Mellon) where she held senior management positions in New York, London and Istanbul where she spearheaded many successful and profitable initiatives which were later emulated by competing institutions. Having worked throughout the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, she was a pioneer and trailblazer in developing the banking industry in Turkey and the region and she is a specialist in international banking, capital markets and risk management.