Experience and qualifications
Velina Butti is a Portfolio Efficiency Senior Associate in the Operational Excellence team. She joined Apax Partners in 2015 and is currently based in New York.
Prior to joining Apax Partners, 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.