Nevzat Aydin
Independent Member
Nevzat Aydın is the co-founder and CEO of yemeksepeti.com, the first and largest online food delivery portal in Turkey. Nevzat Aydın (born 1976), who holds a computer engineering degree from Boğaziçi University, attended University of San Francisco for an MBA in Silicon Valley and later returned to Turkey to launch his “yemeksepeti.com” project. In May 2015, yemeksepeti was acquired by the global industry leader Delivery Hero with the biggest valuation ever in Turkish Internet history. Nevzat Aydın was among the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all around the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by the US President Barack Obama in April 2010. He was named number one on Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list in 2013 and 2015. As an active angel investor, he currently has over 40 investments, worth a total of $20 million. Mr. Aydın is a currently the Chairman of GEN Turkey (Global Entrepreneurship Network), a Board member of Endeavor, TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) Young Entrepreneurs, and American Turkish Society, and a member on the Board of Trustees of Boğaziçi University. He is a founding member of Galata Business Angels and Wtech Women in Technology Association. He also serves as an independent Board member of Mavi.