Hosting CIO Awards 2020 Winner of Turkey Berke Menekli - 2020 Yılın CIO'su

We are going to host IDC CIO Awards 2020 Winner of Turkey Berke Menekli. We are going to ask him some questions to have a better outlook of 2021.

Zoom link: tbd

Berke Menekli's autobiography
Berke Menekli graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Industrial Engineering and completed his Master’s degree there as well.

He started working for Tekfen Construction then Coca-Cola before joining to BMS Pharmaceuaticals as Head of IT Turkey in 2000. He then assumed various responsibilities and was Associate Director, Sales & Marketing systems for EMEA region, based in Paris as his last assignment. He then moved to GSK in 2010 as Head of IT Turkey, based in Istanbul then promoted to Regional IT Senior Director for MEA region in 2011. From 2014 He was also responsible as an addition for global next generation CRM solution, based in London.

He then moved to BSH home appliances in 2015 as Regional It Vice President for Middle East Africa Turkey and CIS markets as well as leading global teams on customer service and analytics solutions. He led the IT regionalization program as well as established Intelligent Automation team in BSH.

As one of his life’s ambitions he published a book “The Exile” and it’s available in Amazon.