Elissa Leechawengwongs (Singapore) joined KKR in 2011 and is a member of KKR's Southeast Asia team. She originally joined KKR as a member of the Media Communications and Consumer Products industry teams in New York. Prior to joining KKR, she was at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and was involved in a variety of mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate advisory transactions in the industrials sector. She received a A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College.