Oğuzhan Acar
Sales & Marketing Excellence – Managing Director
Oğuzhan brings more than 20 years of experience gained in multinational corporations in a multicultural environment in the Europe Middle East Africa Region. His main areas of focus are new business development, merger & acquisitions, sales and marketing excellence, corporate strategy, business unit marketing strategy, learning & development and behavioural change. Based on his B2B sales and marketing experience gained on the field in his early years, Oğuzhan brings hands-on applicable experience meeting his clients’ sales and marketing development needs. In his business development roles, Oğuzhan has worked with a variety of distributors and channel partners in the Turkey Middle East North Africa Region, providing experience in distributor management to help organizations perform down the value chain. He has been leading multicultural teams in the region and developed talent in marketing and sales functions through active recruitment and competency development.
Besides working on organizational assessment and change processes as a consultant, he further enjoys to facilitate active classroom training and workshops, designs learning programs and engages in creation of learning content for customer specific needs. Oğuzhan is a certified trainer for sales effectiveness and strategic marketing planning and has trained more than 700 individuals in small groups over the last 7 years.
With his positive and highly energetic attitude, entrepreneurial spirit, passion for growth and customer focus he helps organizations achieve their goals to improve and renew themselves.
Oğuzhan holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering, MBA, LLM and is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
Jean-Luc Duramy
M&A, Finance, Growth Strategies – Advisory Board Member
Jean-Luc has spent nearly 40 years in DuPont in various finance, audit and senior corporate leadership roles. Throughout his career he has worked in various business units and functions across EMEA and Northern America. His sound financial knowledge and vast experience in merger & acquisitions, integration and separation of legal entities and business units, helps M&A teams learn from his hands-on experience, holistic vision and practical approach. In his later career, Jean-Luc served as the Corporate VP for Turkey, Middle East and Africa and for Eastern and Central Europe, being instrumental to DuPont’s expansion into Emerging Europe. During these assignments he was leading the development of DuPont’s growth and business strategies and served on boards of multiple DuPont Joint Ventures. In his last assignment Jean-Luc completed the spin off of the Perfomance Coatings Business (Axalta) and the Chemours Company (Performance Chemicals Business) from DuPont.
Jean-Luc is an energetic leader who loves to challenge the status quo, current business models and processes in search of excellence. He is an excellent team and systems builder, inspiring his teams with his ideas and providing them with the right direction.
Seda Atabek
ISO Energy Management
Seda Atabek works as a freelance auditor, instructor and consultant on ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems, ISO 55001 Asset Management Systems and ISO 14064 series on Greenhouse Gases. She is also team leader and technical reviewer in verification of Emission Reduction Projects for Gold Standard and VCS mechanisms. She has recently taken part as technical expert in pilot MRV (Monitoring Reporting and Verification of greenhouse gases) project of Ministry of Environment and Urbanization for electricity sector.
She started her career in Sisecam where she worked as Quality Engineer and Energy Engineer and got experience in high temperature industrial processes. After 4 years in Sisecam, she was transferred to Bureau Veritas and then to Re-Consult where she worked as auditor and instructor on energy management and has conducted many ISO 50001 audits in various sectors. She has given many trainings for ISO 50001 (general trainings and internal audit trainings).She was also team leader for Gold Standard and VCS where she has audited more than 70 renewable energy projects. She has been working as a freelancer since 2013.
Seda Atabek has B.Sc in Chemical Engineering and M.Sc in energy Science and Technology both from Istanbul Technical University. She has also completed her Executive MBA degree at Koc University. She speaks English and Spanish.
Özalp Aral
Power Generation
Özalp has been working as business developer and key account manager in power generation and oil & gas sector for more than 20 years, mainly active in sales and maintenance of rotating assets. He has worked for the market leaders such as General Electric, Siemens, Asea Brown Boveri and Wood Group Business and gathered extensive experience with heavy duty gas turbines, aeroderivative engines, steam turbines, centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors, turbo-expanders, industrial pumps, control valves and various control systems. Özalp’s area of focus has been building relationships with large scale EPCs on international projects in Turkey, Middle-East and North Africa for equipment sales and also with plant owners in those regions for creating customer added-value through conversions, re-vampings and upgrades of existing equipment, signing long term maintenance contracts. Özalp has vast experience in negotiating complex contracts and managing distributors and sales-agents to achieve high volume sales figures.
