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Banu Gülsün graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Psychological Counseling in 1999 and started her career at Roche Rharmaceutical’s Human Resources department in the same year. Gülsün, who respectively worked as Recruitment Specialist, Recruitment and Organizational Development Manager, Education and Development Manager, continues to work as the Head of Human Resources and Communications at Roche Diagnostics since 2009. Gülsün is married with a child.

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Başak Taşpınar Değim born in 1978 and after graduating from Boğaziçi University Civil Engineering in 2000, she completed her MBA at Koç University and a MSIMC at Chicago Loyola University. She joined into the business world as a marketing expert at the Morgan Stanley’s Chicago office. She continued her career at ACNielsen Bases as senior research analyst. Then, in 2007, she worked as a product manager at Revlon in New York. In 2010, she worked as the brand manager of the Tat brand of Koç Holding.
After leaving her corporate career in 2011, she has founded Armut that Turkey's largest online service platform with more than 350,000 service providers and 2000 categories. Armut, having a team of 75 people from 5 different nationalities, conducts its operations in USA, UK, Egypt, Romania and Saudi Arabia with its global brand HomeRun. It provides a specialized service with sub-brand named as “Rahat Taşın” in Turkey which operates in moving vertical.
Armut selected as Turkey's 2nd fastest growing technology company in 2017 at the list prepared by Deloitte Technology. In addition in the Technology Fast 500 list, it was the 40th fastest growing company in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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Cem Sezgin is currently leading Human Capital Services in Turkey and joined Deloitte in 1994. He has served over 300 companies in more than 15 countries. Cem is among the members of Advisory Council in «The Most Influential CHRO Awards" and "The Most Influential CFO Awards" in Turkey» as well as being responsible for the assessment in PERYÖN HR Awards since 2016. Cem has received EduWorks Leadership Award in 2016, has over 150 publications with 2 books including the first ever book written about CFOs in Turkey named «Türkiye’nin CFO’ları». He has specialized in employee experience, change management, culture & engagement, future of work, digital HR and HR analytics. Apart from Human Capital, his main areas of expertise are Family Business, Football Industry Finance Transformation, Strategy & Enterprise Applications. Cem Sezgin has 10 years of coaching & mentoring experience. He has BA degree from Marmara University in Economics, and is a CPA since 1999.

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Cristina Meson is PepsiCo Turkey Human Resources Country lead. She has worked in PepsiCo over the last 15 years, for Latin America, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Born and raised in Mexico, she started her career in PepsiCo after graduating as Industrial and Systems Engineer.
In Mexico she joined the Human Resources Team and worked in diverse HR Specialist roles for Mexico and Latin America region for 7 years. In 2011 she moved to London to manage the Culture and Engagement agenda for PepsiCo Europe, with focus on Diversity & Inclusion for the region. After her role in London, she became and HR Business Partner for Central Functions and Commercial in Europe.
Most recently she supported the Supply Chain team in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa Regional as Human Resources Director based in Barcelona. In this role she was responsible for the HR SC Regional Agenda for more than 20 Countries.
After different Specialist and Generalist roles in Human Resources, she started to work in PepsiCo Turkey in April 2018 as the Country HR Lead.

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After graduating from Galatasaray High School and Boğaziçi University’s Management Department, Fatih Uysal started working in Danone in 1999. Uysal worked at Danone’s Turkey office, handling various responsibilities for the company’s many different brands. He was assigned to the Danone Group Head Office as Global Marketing Manager in 2006. There, Uysal mentored approximately 40 countries in establishing and applying new marketing strategies. Fatih Uysal spent the last year of his overseas placement in Holland, as the Global CRM Director responsible for the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. After returning to Turkey in 2010, Uysal started working as the Marketing Director of Vodafone and led the launches of several different segments and projects. In February of 2017, Fatih Uysal became General Manager & CEO at Kariyer.net, the biggest online Human Resources Platform in Turkey.

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Currently Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Insider, Hande Cilingir is responsible for running efficient operations, building a strong company culture, managing overseas growth, supporting sales and marketing teams, sharing and developing Insider’s technology. Being a 1X entrepreneur, Hande founded Insider with five fellow co-founders upon their lucrative exit of a highly prestigious language school. Following studies at the London School of Economics, she completed a master's degree at Shanghai Normal University.
After gaining international experience working and living in the UK, China, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Russia, Hande was equipped with skills and know-how to create a global product company. Hande was granted the most successful woman entrepreneur of the year by Microsoft and was awarded by Junior Chambers International (JCI). Selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in ISP-2014. Recently, Hande has been ranked as one of the top three women CEOs outside of the US by Crunchbase.
An avid entrepreneur at heart, Hande has been working for Insider’s growth for the past six years. She is dedicated to creating a strong culture which has been a core element of Insider’s success in 20 countries across the globe, developing the disruptive technology of the world’s first integrated Growth Management Platform powered by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

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Founder and CEO of Time is Ltd. is deeply passionate about productivity. A serial entrepreneur appeared on the "30 Under 30" list by Forbes magazine. Founded several companies including Socialbakers, one of the world’s largest social analytics firms and have invested in Gamee, an emerging mobile games social network.
The international speaker focused on social media, digital technology, a new way of working & productivity, and entrepreneurship - spoke at events such as TEDx, Forbes CMO Conference, Social Media Week, Adtech, Web Summit, LeWeb, Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and many others.

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Manon leads product innovation as part of EF’s global EdTech group, focussing on leveraging new and emerging technologies to develop consumer-grade hardware and software products for language learning.
With over a decade of experience in consumer technology, Manon has been responsible for bringing to market some of the most cutting-edge tech products in music and education in collaboration with global organisations including Apple, Google, and Disney.
Manon has collected several prizes for his work, including CES Best of Innovation and the prestigious iF Design Award.
Manon also acts as a music and technology advisor to some of the world’s leading musical artists, including will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman.

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Graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Economics, Murat Yüksel got his master’s degree in Yıldız Technical University, Department of Human Resources Management. Murat Yüksel started his career at Şişecam. Between 2008 and 2011, he worked as HR Manager at Societe Generale. He began his eBay career at eBay Dublin office in 2011, and up until today he worked at Human Resources Departments of various eBay offices including the eBay office in Turkey in particular. Yüksel worked as Senior HR Consultant at eBay Dublin between 2011 and 2013. Between 2013-2019, alongside his duty at GittiGidiyor, he was responsible for Human Resources Departments at eBay Spain, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Czechia and Russia.
Yüksel, being a member of PERYÖN Türkiye People Management Association, is graduated from Co-Active (CTI) Coaching Institute and has a coaching degree from ACC. On the other hand, Murat Yüksel attended leadership and coaching training at Harvard University in 2017 and had worked as a volunteer at TEGV throughout the years.

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Previously global Director of HR transformation and Change at Cushman & Wakefield and a management consultant specialising in HR Transformation, Niraj is now the managing partner of an innovative, boutique HR technology consulting firm with a unique perspective on how to help clients maximise their return on their technology investment.

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Onur Bayındır is an accomplished entrepreneur in ICT sector with a proven track record of success.
Onur Bayındır, who graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Science, began his career with a startup establishment experience, otogalerisi.com, in 1998. After then, he joined Meyer Group in 2000.
Meyer Group has set up its growth targets and provided numerous strategies in the field of biometrics and RFID. Developing different projects within the scope of entrepreneurship, innovation and R & D studies, Bayındır manages the global business development activities of the group companies. He established a special team under the umbrella of Meyer Group and founded Idenfit.com which brings a whole new dimension to the workforce management.
In addition, he is married and has 2 children. He is still developing new projects.

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