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Betsy Cohen has 20 years’ experience in executive operating roles, financial management, and investment in high-growth companies.
Prior to joining Teneo, Betsy was CFO and CAO of Merchantry. Previously, Betsy was co-founder and CFO of a marketing intelligence company bought by The Nielsen Company. She also served as EVP of DialogBank Russia, where Betsy launched and ran various divisions of the commercial bank division of Troika Dialog, bought by Sberbank. She also previously worked in the private equity group at Oaktree Capital and the corporate finance division of J.P. Morgan.
Betsy is a former economics fellow and current member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Betsy has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. from Harvard University in Russian language and Slavic studies.
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