Bio

Velina Butti is a Principal, Business Transformation and Automation in the Operational Excellence team. She joined Apax in 2015 and is currently based in New York. Prior to joining Apax, Velina was a member of the Central Procurement and Profit Improvement team at J.Crew, where she led cross-functional cost reduction and process improvement initiatives. She also worked as a Procurement Strategy manager at ANN INC. and as a procurement consultant at GEP. Velina holds a BSFS in International Political Economy from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.