INSEAD

Bucknell University

Robert College

Chief Transformation Officer at GKG, Ex-McKinsey

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Leading Global Kapital Group strategy, and transformation efforts across a wide range of topics including digitalization, governance and products

Global Kapital Group

Chief Transformation Officer

McKinsey & Company

Associate Partner

Engagement Manager

Selected strategy experience
- Defined growth strategy for MENA arm of global insurance firm 
- Completed merger assessment and synergy estimation for large European asset management firm to be based in Munich
- Assessed market feasibility and defined go-to-market strategy for Private banking/ asset management arm of large MENA bank 
- Defined 2020 vision and corporate strategy for all domestic business units as well as inorganic and organic international growth for top bank in MENA
- Developed end-to-end retail banking strategy and 5 year aspirations, including product, segment, pricing, risk and branch network components for a mid-tier bank in KSA
- Completed valuation and due diligence for potential acquisition of mid-tier UAE bank 

Selected execution experience
- Optimized RWA for global bank's Asia business
- Designed end-to-end individual performance management system, including KPI’s, targets, tracking, ratings and compensation for MENA bank
- Executed 2 sales productivity uplift projects, one for retail and one for wholesale, improving the financial performance of respective units

Associate

- Assumed Project Manager and Business Analyst roles in 8 projects across 5 clients in financial services, insurance and products sectors, completing Accenture Banking Industry Certification 

Selected strategy experience
- Generated strategy for premium credit card member retention, working with client C-level committee
- Identified and analyzed list of potential acquisition targets for Accenture
- Facilitated product strategy sessions, provided thought leadership and completed partnership analysis for digital services and strategy dept. at credit card client, which implemented 5+ of the partnerships

Selected execution experience
- Developed operational strategy and led the assessment of business controls for bankruptcy line of business at large bank, communicated improvement opportunities to leadership 
- Built and delivered efficient bankruptcy related business processes to 200+ users at large bank 
- Managed end-to-end delivery of an online product in the partnership of large credit card client and promising start-up, including product design and development as well as marketing and servicing
- Administered $1.3M budget and team of 6 for business architecture of analytics tool and business processes to forecast customer acquisition and improve decision making at credit card client

Accenture

Management Consultant

The Hershey Company

Controls Engineering Intern

Emre Akgul