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Board of Directors and Informetion about Management
HAKKI HASAN YILMAZIndependent Member Distinguished Executive in Residence He was born in 1957 in Ankara. Following his high school education at TED Ankara College, he got his BSc degree in industrial engineering from METU in 1979. His professional life started at Presiz Metal İmalat Sanayii, manufacturing household appliances, as an industrial engineer. Between 1981 to 1984 he worked in Ankara, first as a market analyst in Taksan Takım Tezgahları A.Ş. then joined DPT (State Planning Organization) as capital goods expert. He joined Unilever in 1984 as "assistant brand manager trainee". He rather quickly moved up in the organization in the following years as ; Area Sales Manager in 1986, Detergents Marketing Manager in1987, Sales Director in 1988 and assigned as Chairman-Managing Director of Lever and Elida Cosmetic business' in 1991. Following three excellent years with significant market share and profitability growth inspite of P&G entry, he was moved to Unilever London head office as "Regional Leader" responsible for all 15 countries in East Asia Pasific including China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia etc. He returned to Turkey in 1995 and acted as Chairman-CEO of Pepsi- FritoLay foods business, Uzay Gıda for a year. He was called back by Unilever and he was assigned as Chairman and CEO of all 9 legal entities in Turkey with majority Unilever shareholding, with a clear mission to revitalise the business. Job took 4 years and he left Unilever on year 2000 to pursue different interests. He joined as part time faculty to KOÇ University and started to teach "Strategy & Leadership" to MBA and EMBA and "Competititve Business Strategy" to senior undergraduate students. He joined to KOÇ Holding as "President - Food, Retailing and Tourism" in 2002. He acted as chairman and vice-chairman of 21 KOÇ companies and his responsibilities covered 12,000 people, 3 billion usd revenue, almost 20% of total KOÇ business at that time. Since 2005, he is back in KOÇ University as "Distinguished Executive in Residence" teaching several courses and supporting graduate school of business. |
