Zaya Kadyrova is a Director at Teachers' Venture Growth (TVG), based in London, where she helps lead TVG's strategy for direct investments in high-growth European technology companies. Prior to joining TVG, Zaya was based in London for over 10 years. Most recently, she was an investor in the direct VC arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), leading investments in Series A, B and growth stages in technology companies across Central and Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey and MENA.  Prior to EBRD, she was with Morgan Stanley's TMT Investment Banking and PwC Transaction Services teams. Zaya holds an MBA from INSEAD, and a BBA from Simon Fraser University in Canada, where she studied Business, Economics, and Computer Science.