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5.10.2008

Career Highlights

Experienced General Manager - 3 years running early-stage of institutionalization in the family owned cosmetic company. Raised over 60 million USD in consolidated annual sales turnover.

Made Ipek brand the market leader of Turkish market in Shampoo, Hair Conditioner and Hand Liquid Soap segments by increasing total annual sales from 20 to 30 million units in 3 years. This has led to first position of quantitative market share over against the multinational competitors, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Colgate Palmolive etc.

Successfully take over the regional business of Care Chemicals in 20 countries of Middle East and Turkic Republics from Henkel-Cognis Germany to Turk Henkel-Cognis Kimya. Raised over 20 from 3 million Euro Annual Sales Turnover in 5 years.

Experienced negotiator and director - dealer and distributor agreements, investment on manufacturing, company merger and acquisition

Awarded Painting Mention from Turkish Telecom during high school period,
the Years Best Young Manager of Turk Henkel in 1989,
the Highest Performance Award of Care Chemicals Worldwide by President Mr. Ridinger in 2003 and
the World Innovation Award of BASF for his company Canan Kozmetik.

Education

A driven and experienced entrepreneurial leader with a deep strategic and technical understanding of the chemical industry. Track record of building and leading high performance teams in the creation of better level institutionalization on the family owned companies. Able to combine multinational and international organizations experience, strategic insight and managerial know-how to synthesize new bold challenges.

Master of Science from Institute of Science and Technology of Istanbul Technical University and Bachelor’s degree at Chemical Engineering of Istanbul Technical University.

He has worked 17 years for Turk Henkel AS / Cognis Kimya AS. He was a manager in the gainful two Strategic Business Units: "Surface Technologies" and "Care Chemicals".
He has participated international meeting and training studies in many countries – Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Jordan, U.A.E, Thailand, USA – and Turkiye. He was Sales and Marketing Manager for Turkiye and closed 20 countries in his last position of Cognis Kimya. He added his performance to the global company strategies.

He has started to manage Canan Kozmetik companies at the beginning of 2004 as General Manager, left his position at the end of the year 2006. In November 2007, L'oreal has signed agreement for acquisition of Canan Kozmetik AS group.

He is currenty in international trade area, preparing venture programs and still reading history.

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