She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Yıldız Technical University, a bachelor's degree in business administration from Anadolu University, and a master's degree from Sabancı University's Executive MBA programme. She attended the Leadership and Innovation certificate programme at MIT in the USA. Meliha Seyhan started her career at Gillette A.Ş. in 1991 in the Cost Accounting Department and worked until 2005 as Plant Controller, Financial Analyst, Reporting and Cost Accounting Manager in Turkey, Balkans and Medex Hub region as well as Project Leader of the Renaissance Project, the largest financial reporting system project in Gillette's history, in Turkey, Balkans and Medex Hub countries in Boston, USA. In 2005, after The Gillette A.Ş. was acquired by Procter & Gamble, she joined P&G and worked as System Simplification Manager, Customer Business Development Financial Team Manager, Corporate Accounting Group Manager, Internal Control and Purchasing to Payment Group Manager. In 2010, she was appointed to the first CFO position in the Lila Group, accelerating its institutionalisation efforts. During this period, she led the systemic, structural and organisational change and transformation of the company's finance department, and in 2017 she added the Information Technologies department to her responsibilities, leading the organisational renewal efforts for digital transformation. With 18 years of experience in global companies, she left the Lila Group after 11 years of rapid growth in Turkey and her role in its institutionalisation at the end of June 2021, and has started to provide management and financial consultancy services to companies by establishing ANKA Holistic Management Consultancy Limited Company. Meliha Seyhan, who is an active member of NGOs such as TKYD and LEAD Network Türkiye, Türkonfed, Futurists Association, mentors women managers in the retail sector and teaches financial ethics courses at many universities as part of the "Ethical Leaders Academy".