Portrait of Sheila Taleena Kiladjian

Sheila TaleenaKiladjian

Vice President, Supreme Jewelry

Los Angeles, California

Education

Yale University

B.A., Economics · 2011

Yale School of Management / Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

Three-year joint MBA/MPP · 2016

Certification

Gemological Institute of America (GIA)

Graduate Gemologist · 2009

Biography

Sheila Taleena Kiladjian is Vice President of Supreme Jewelry, a Los Angeles-based luxury jewelry house founded by her father in 1980. She is a third-generation member of an Armenian jewelry family whose operations had extended from Beirut across Europe and North America.

Kiladjian joined the company full-time in January 2020, after nearly a decade at Goldman Sachs in New York. She had previously contributed to the family business on a part-time basis, including work on Supreme Jewelry’s watermelon tourmaline and diamond 18K gold necklace collection in 2013, which was later featured in JCK.

Professional experience

Supreme Jewelry

Joined full-time January 2020 · Los Angeles

Since returning to Supreme Jewelry, Kiladjian has led the company’s brand repositioning, digital transformation, supply-chain transparency, and responsible sourcing initiatives.

In 2021, she led the team behind the “Eternal Tear” emerald necklace project, which received a gold award at the Galas Jewelry Festival. In 2023, she established a family office responsible for the Kiladjian family’s long-term wealth management, asset allocation, and intergenerational planning.

Since 2024, she has been involved in cultural preservation and traditional craftsmanship initiatives, expanding that work into international craft and cultural exchange in 2026.

Goldman Sachs

Analyst; Senior Associate · New York · 2011–2019

At Goldman Sachs, Kiladjian worked first as an analyst and later as a Senior Associate, focusing on financial analysis, capital markets, asset allocation, and private wealth management.