{"id":76145,"date":"2025-09-25T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/?page_id=76145"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:51:32","slug":"melek-pulatkonak-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/melek-pulatkonak-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Melek Pulatkonak Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-gb76145-69d7caf8641b9\"  class=\"panel-layout wp-block-siteorigin-panels-layout-block\" ><div id=\"pg-gb76145-69d7caf8641b9-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb76145-69d7caf8641b9-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb76145-69d7caf8641b9-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-76143 \" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/melek-pulatkonak-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/melek-pulatkonak-1.jpg 224w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/melek-pulatkonak-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/melek-pulatkonak-1-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Melek Pulatkonak <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Current\/ previous positions:<\/strong> <strong>Founder, Turkish Women&#8217;s International Network (TurkishWIN) <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"text-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Melek Pulatkonak is a TEDster, entrepreneur, and change maker. Obsessed with diversity and inclusion, she founded the Turkish Women&#8217;s International Network (TurkishWIN) in 2010, which gathers open-minded and open-hearted women with cultural, professional, and family ties to Turkiye to build a legacy in supporting the next generation of Turkish women and to meet women with a passion to change the ratio to know she is no longer alone in this journey. Before becoming a full-time social entrepreneur, she worked at Microsoft\u2019s Global Startup Business Team. Before that, she was the Deputy GM at Microsoft Turkey responsible for the Developer and Platform Evangelism. Prior to moving back to Turkey for Microsoft, she was the President &amp; COO of Hakia, a semantic technology company in New York where the company received $25 million in funding. Before her tech entrepreneurship journey, she held various roles in the finance sector in New York, ranging from advising the Chairman of the Istanbul Stock Exchange to ADR researcher as the Research Associate at the New York Stock Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melek Pulatkonak Current\/ previous positions: Founder, Turkish Women&#8217;s International Network (TurkishWIN) &nbsp; &nbsp; BIOGRAPHY Melek Pulatkonak is a TEDster, entrepreneur, and change maker. 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