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Majoring in Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University and holding a Master’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, along with additional credentials from Harvard Business School, she has built a career in finance and technology leadership. Her path includes key roles at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan in New York and at Mastercard in Istanbul.

Through Bistrouge, the restaurant she opened in Manhattan, she encountered the city’s layered intersections—an experience that enriched her not only as an entrepreneur but as a human being.

Alongside the corporate and entrepreneurial world, she nurtured a parallel devotion to poetry, storytelling, meditation, yoga, and expressive arts—exploring how data-driven structures can soften into intuition, imagination, and breath.

She is the author of Jumping on the Drips, a collection of interwoven stories; the novel Shared Pulse: Love and Transformation in a City of Crossings; and the poetry collection, Mismatched Socks, published in English and Turkish as Varla Yok Arasından Şiirler: Sessiz Senfoni.

She is also the mother of a daughter finding her own way in the world—a parallel journey that keeps teaching Eda about love, wonder, courage, and the quiet art of becoming.