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Gülden
Türktan
W20 Turkey President, Founding Member and Board Chairman of KAGİDER, OECD, BIAC-ELSA Vice President
Biography
Dr. Türktan’s life mission is to promote female entrepreneurship in Turkey as well as to strengthen the position of women economically and socially.
Dr. Türktan spent the first four years of her working life at New York University as an academic. She has also worked in positions where she had authority over auditing, human resources, quality and legal affairs, and took on various top level management roles. For many years she worked intensively in management positions in non-governmental organisations.
For a significant part of her career, Dr. Türktan took on various senior management tasks and also served as the only board member and vice chairman of the board at ABB Electric Industry, regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious companies. She put her backing behind many key decisions over the company’s journey from a value of $14 million to $350 million. Türktan now provides international training within the scope of her “Invitation to leadership” programme, the strategy and mission of which is to “train more leaders within companies.” She has also played an active role in training successful leaders both locally and abroad.
Türktan’s successful career has been thanks to the positive spirit and foresight that she applies to entrepreneurship, her well timed purchasing and sales decisions, her efficient analyses and her “win-win” investment techniques. She recently chose to put an end to her current business life and began managing a hotel in Bodrum. However, she was not able to completely let go of the world of business and took on positions on various boards and became the chairwoman of the Women Entrepreneurs Association. Under Türktan’s management the association has achieved its record highest number of projects and its highest ever revenue figures. She has given various training sessions and speeches on entrepreneurship and the basic economic principles for success in business life. She also presented recommendations on sustainability on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Who is Dr. Gülden Türktan?
After graduating from Bosphorus University’s Business School with BA and MA degrees, Dr. Gulden Turktan went on to receive post graduate degrees from New York University and Marmara University. She holds an MBA, an M. Phil and a Ph.D. She began her career as a research assistant and instructor at New York University. She then took on a top management position at ABB, a huge international power plant and electricity generation company in Istanbul. She worked at the International Investments Association (YASED) of Turkey for two periods as a board member and later as vice-chairman of the board. Dr. Turktan was the head of the Work Council of TUSIAD for Employment and Social Security Systems. She was one of the founders of Turkey’s Women Entrepreneurs Association KAGIDER and she served as its president.
Speech Topics
• Who is the leader?
• Manage upwards
• Create your own leader
• How much have we achieved in the women’s movement? How much is left?
Soner
Çağaptay
Beyer Family Fellow/ Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Biography
Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism. He regularly publishes in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic. He frequently appears on Aljazeera, BBC, CNN, and NPR.
A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University (2003) on Turkish nationalism. Dr. Cagaptay has taught courses at Yale, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. His spring 2003 course on modern Turkish history was the first offered by Yale in three decades. From 2006-2007, he was Ertegun Professor at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Dr. Cagaptay is the recipient of numerous honors, grants, and chairs, among them the Smith-Richardson, Mellon, Rice, and Leylan fellowships. He has also served on contract as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. In 2012, he was named an American Turkish Society Young Society Leader.
Dr. Cagaptay has published several highly acclaimed books on Turkish nationalism and politics. His first book was a published version of his doctoral dissertation on Turkish nationalism in 2006. This was followed by “The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century’s First Muslim Power” published in 2014 and, most recently, a definitive work detailing the rise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey“.
After training in India, Dr. Cagaptay is certified as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 200 in 2018.
Speech Topics
Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in modern Turkey
The Rise of Turkey: Twenty-First Century’s first Muslim power
Turkey-US Relations
Domestic Turkish Affairs and Turkish Nationalism
Eralp
Caner
Therapist and Change Manager
Biography
Who is Eralp Caner?
Eralp Caner is the founder and director of the Healing Hall Holistic Clinic in Istanbul and serves as the general secretary of the Life without Cancer Society of Turkey.
Eralp Caner
He is a Certified PSYCH-K® Instructor and Facilitator, who has worked with over a thousand clients throughout the world. His focus is Psycho-energetics and Neuroscience, specifically, teaching and facilitating Subconscious Mind Change. His services are highly sought out by individuals as well as corporate clients.
He is also a Diploma Level Domancic Bioenergy Therapist, certified Reconnective Healing and Reconnection practitioner, and OSHO Constellation Therapist, among others.
He works with clients in person and via Skype and teaches PSYCH-K® workshops worldwide.
Speech Topics
- Brand new ME
- Corporate Mind
- Perception Reframing for Success (PRS®)
Tunç
Fındık
Professional Mountaineer, Instructor
Biography
“All mountains are beautiful and spellbinding. Whether snowy or rocky, each one is beautiful in its own way.” Tunç Fındık sees success as safely climbing beautiful mountains.
You have to know how to climb up as well as down
Tunç Fındık says coming back safe and sound from a climb is the definition of success in mountaineering. “It is important to reach the summit in mountain climbing. It is like the full stop at the end of the sentence, but it is not the most important thing. For a successful climb, the descent is as important as the ascent.” For ascents that present numerous obstacles, you need a specific plan, a target, leadership, teamwork, logistics, motivation and the successful management of all these elements in order to solve problems and keep going. Fındık has climbed nine of the world’s 14 mountains with an altitude of more than 8000 meters as part of the project 14×8000. There are 13 people (12 living) in the world to have completed this series. Tunç Fındık aims to complete the series which represents a sort of world record in high altitude mountaineering.
Who is Tunç Fındık?
Tunç Fındık co-founded Dost Mountaineering Club at Bilkent University with Nasuh Mahruki. He is also a member of AKUT, Search & Rescue Association. Fındık possesses an archive consisting of almost 35,000 slides and digital photos. He has opened nearly 150 new routes, using them for the first time ever, particularly in the central/western Taurus Mountains and the Kaçkar Mountains in the Eastern Black Sea region. Fındık has climbed in Nepal, Tibet/China, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Iran, Georgia, Argentina, Tanzania, Kenya, the Russian Federation and Scotland.
Speech Topics
• Trip to the Summit
• A trip to the throne of the gods: Everest
• 80 challenging days in Karakurum
• At the summit of the Turquoise Goddess
• Looking from the summit
• Himalayan journal
• Ushba: The steep summit of the Caucasus through the eyes of a mountaineer
Özhan
Atalay
Management Consultant
Biography
Özhan Atalay helps companies save their future and he is an expert on issues of loss and high costs. Atalay, ex-general manager of Century 21 Turkey, makes presentations and provides consultancy services on niche areas including sales rules, psychology of human behavior and leadership. He has a book named Guide to Failure for Managers and teaches people how to make a difference in competition for business success.
Atalay played a role in reorganization of many companies and helped them in reaching the right information, detecting mistakes, developing practical solutions, taking action and getting results. Atalay makes brilliant speeches to professionals seeking constructive solutions in the business world and he is recognized as an expert in increasing efficiency, profitable growth, recovering companies, reducing costs, institutionalization, course change, making companies profitable, organization and change of strategy.
Atalay started his career at STFA İnşaat A.Ş. and went to England for language training after his military service. He came back to Turkey and joined the team involved in opening Swissotel Istanbul. He founded Skor Management Consultancy and provided services on installation of IT/ERP systems, increasing efficiency, financial consultancy and international tax planning. With his English partners, he adapted the global EPR system Omicron Financials to Turkey under the name Skor Financials, provided sales and maintenance services and sold the company four years later to continue his career in other fields of expertise.
Who is Özhan Atalay?
Özhan Atalay, born in Istanbul, was graduated from the Business Administration of Istanbul University. Atalay serves as CFO at Teknoloji Holding, Assistant General Manager at Schindler Asansör AŞ, General Manager at Premdor Masonite Kapı Sanayi AŞ, Assistant General Manager at Muratlı Karton A.Ş. and General Manager at Vega Services Inc.
He is an expert on companies which fail to make profit although there is no problem with the business model as well as those which want to increase profits. Atalay serves as Independent Professional Board Member as per the new TCC and CMB. He is married and a father of two.
Speech Topics
– How to prevent drivers of loss for companies?
– Cost reduction, profit increase, market share growth, profitable growth for profitable companies
– Institutionalization, standardization
– Increasing efficiency, reducing costs
– Saving a company
Bülent
Şenver
Economist ,Strategic Management Counselor ,Founder of Book Foundation
Biography
“It is not possible to manage today’s economy with older economic models and today’s banking systems with older banking instruments. We have to keep up with the pace of change.”
Bülent Şenver is one of the most respected names in Turkish Banking. Having played a crucial role in Turkey’s recent economic past, Şenver is a speaker who is very much in demand in the fields of finance, economy, leadership, ethical values, balance sheet management, risk management and corporate governance. For him, if a bank is to truly be considered strong, this must hold true in its every aspect. He emphasizes the importance of sustainable success and adds: “we have to encourage the development of young leaders in every field. Turkey needs young leaders.” Şenver emphasizes the importance of leadership and youth. He possess an impressive background in academic activities in addition to his vast experience in banking and economics. Şenver points out that leadership is important for every subject and profession. For him, the same principles apply for leaders of small organisations as for great leaders who get millions of people to follow them.
Bülent Şenver was a trailblazer in many areas of banking, launching numerous banking products and services, such as credit cards with photos, increased securitisation, telephone banking, overdraft accounts, insured bank deposits, euro bank deposits and housing loans.
Who is Bülent Şenver?
Bülent Şenver, the grandfather of Turkish banking, introduced many innovations to Turkish banking systems. The Founding President of Türklider Center, Şenver gives lectures on “Electronic Banking”, “Active/Passive Management in Banks”, “Investment Banking”, “Commercial Banking” and “Management Ethics” at Bosphorus and Bilgi Universities. From 1994 to 2000, he served as the chairman of the Turkish-American Business Association (TABA-AmCham), as a member on the board of directors and executive board of the European Council of American Chambers of Commerce (ECACC), and was its treasurer during the same period. He was the founding president of the Ethical Values Foundation of Turkey (TEDMER).
Speech Topics
• Banking and finance
• Corporate governance in SMEs
• Corporate businesses
• Internal control and auditing systems
• The global crisis and its effects on Turkey
• Ethical values
• Innovation
• Leadership
Yıldız
Özer
Dijital Pazarlama Uzmanı, Kurucu Fooders
Biyografi
Yıldız Burçin Özer, Stratejik Planlama, İnternet Pazarlama ve Online Marka Yönetimi Uzmanı. Satışın 10 emri internet, internet, internet… diyor. Yeni dönem markalara yeni olanaklar, yeni zorunluluklar, yeni eğilimler sunuyor. Sunuyor diyoruz aslında zorunlu kılıyor demeyi yumuşatmak istiyoruz.
Dijital iletişim, dijital pazarlama
“Dijital iletişim tüketiciyi can evinden vurmak zorunda” diyor Özer, “…gün, marka algısı ve tüketici, ürünü marka üzerinden tercih ediyor.” diye ekliyor.
Lisans eğitimini İngiltere’de, “University of Kent”te, İletişim (“Communications & Image Studies” – İletişim, İmajların ve Yeni Medyanın Toplum üzerindeki etkisi) alanında tamamlayan Yıldız Özer, 2000’li yılların başında yaygınlaşan internet kullanımı ile birlikte profesyonel kariyerini farklı bir yöne evriltti.
Stratejik planlama
İş hayatına Total İletişim’de reklam dünyasının önde gelen kurum ve reklamcılarıyla çalışarak başlayan Özer, takiben Saatchi & Saatchi Güzel Sanatlar’da büyük markaların stratejik planlama uzmanı olarak görev yaptı. Kariyerini yıllarca stratejik planlamasında destek verdiği reklam veren tarafında sürdürme kararı alarak, Türkiye’nin lider internet portali Mynet ile yolunu kesiştirdi. Kurum tarafında, uluslararası markanın içinde çoklu ve çeşitli ürün strateji yapılanmasını Yıldız Holding bünyesinde deneyimledi. Türkiye’de internet pazarlamasını en etkin kullanan şirketlerden biri olan Yıldız Holding çatısı altında, lokal ve uluslararası birçok markanın yeni pazarlama iletişimi dünyasına hızla adapte olabilmesi ve liderliğini devam ettirebilmesi için dijital stratejiler geliştirip, teknoloji odaklı projeleri hayata geçirdi. Sürekli değişim gösteren dinamik ortamlarda, dijital pazarlama stratejilerinden sorumlu üst düzey rollerde uzun yıllar çalıştı.
2014-2018 yılları arasında, internet sektörünün tek meslek örgütü IAB Türkiye’nin (Internet Advertising Bureau) internet pazarlama grubunda aktif görev alarak, çeşitli projelere katkı sağladı.
Konuşma Konuları
- Tek Yol Dijital, İleri; Reklamın Yeni Yüzü
- Dijital 10 Emirle Emrediyor: Meşhur Marka Ol
Gülsen
Çeliker
Innov’Coat Inc. Founding Partner, Vice Chairman, CTO
Biography
“Nanotechnology is going to change our lives. All we have seen so far of nanotechnology are prototypes. Numerous R&D projects are underway across the world, and significant budgets are being allocated for this.”
Gülsen Çeliker is a founding partner of Innov’coat which carries out projects for Turkey’s leading corporations working with or producing ceramics, white appliances, glass, aluminium and carpets. Since 2010, these companies have been able to offer innovative and multi-functional products in the market place thanks to the materials and coatings developed by Innov’coat. These products are also approved by international companies. These companies introduce these new materials through R&D alliances.
Çeliker takes an active role in her company’s collaborative projects on nanotechnology with various universities. As such, her company represents an important model in terms of university-industry cooperation. She considers that universities, government and the private sector should all unite around the “nanotechnology strategy.” Firmly believing that advanced technology will shape our lives in the future, Çeliker seeks to expand our horizons with several examples: future cars will be of different materials and have increased resistance against crashing. The cleanliness of ambient air will be controlled. Clothes will be cleaned by mere exposure to a UV lamp, which will eliminate the use of harmful chemicals used in cleaning. Actually, the essence of the matter is this: nanotechnology will change our lives. What we have seen, heard and lived so far is only the results of initial studies. A great number of R&D studies are being carried out all over the world; significant budgets are being allocated for advanced technology. Researchers like Çeliker are opening the doors to the future for us.
Who is Gülsen Çeliker?
Gülsen Çeliker received her Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from the Middle East Technical University (ODTU). She worked as a research assistant at ODTU between 1982 and 1987. She started her industrial career in Akzo Nobel as a research specialist. She transferred to Dyo in 1995. She first worked as a manager in the automotive and industrial paints section, followed by an assistant general manager position at Yaşar BASF, where she formed the R&D and quality team. She served as the R&D coordinator at the Yaşar Paint and Chemistry Group between 2004 and 2009. In 2009 Çeliker established her own company which develops, manufactures and sells nanotechnology coating and materials by entering into a partnership with Materis, Europe’s third largest paint company. Çeliker, currently, creates projects and develops innovative products for industrial firms each of which are a leader in their own sector.
Speech Topics
• Nanotechnology in Turkey
• What will the future bring?
• New functions and new markets
• New technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship
• Nanotechnology applications – opportunities in various sectors
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