Emin Bingül

Emin Bingül,

He was born in 1957 in Çanakkale. Graduated from Kabataş High School and Istanbul University Economics Department, majoring Business Administration and Finance. Before starting his career, he went through an intensive one year English language education in Cambridge and obtained Proficiency certificate in English. After many years in his working life he decided to merge his experiences with updated academic studies and got his master’s degree in M.B.A from Istanbul Bilgi University between 2004 and 2006.  

He started his career as Management trainee at Koç Holding’s HR department in 1980, after having worked there one year, he decided to specialize in automotive sector and joined Iveco/Otoyol Pazarlama where he worked as sales&marketing manager for nine years. He later served at Turkey’s most prominent companies in automotive retailing namely, Istanbul Oto/Birmot as Deputy General Manager and Oto An/Birmot Ankara as General Manager and Member of the Board.  

During these assignments, he represented his companies at Automotive Manufacturers’ Association and at Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Ankara. He took part in Koç Holding’s strategic Change Management Project that is Koç 2000, as the company project leader and also worked as a member of the Project team which implemented the partnership agreement between Otoyol and its Italian partner Iveco.  

After 21 years of successful work, he ended his career in Koç Group and jumped into the Telecommunication sector, to experience new challenges where he also shouldered some important responsibilities as a top executive at leading companies like Genpa and Tesan. After having served as the General Manager of DAF/Tirsan, he stopped working as a top manager on full time basis. At present, he renders consulting services in the fields of strategic management, corporate identity, institutionalization of family owned businesses, foreign trade, sales and marketing as well as he represents couple of foreign companies in Turkey.  

Bingül speaks English, French and Italian apart from his mother tongue Turkish, enjoys travelling around the World, photography, cinema, music, sports and strives to be a better tennis player, photographer and drummer.

Areas of Expertise : Automotive retailing, Strategic management, Dealer network development, Brand management, Foreign trade, Leadership, Corporate identity, Institutionalization of Family businesses, sales and marketing.