Ahmet Kasım Han

With over thirty years of experience as a researcher in academia, as an executive in finance, services and industrial production, and as an opinion pundit who is widely quoted and consulted and whose strategic analysis, forecasts and insights has been mediatized by international media including, Independent Turkey, CNN International, The Associated Press, CNBC, Deutsche Welle, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Asahi Shimbun, Nikkei, Reuters, AP, BBC, The Economist, Der Spiegel, Paris Match, and PBS, Prof. Han has been, and still, serving as a Project Manager, General Manager, CEO, Member of Board, General Counsel, Executive Advisor and Advisor to the board for Turkish mega businesses and multinationals. In this capacity he has been focused on managing and facilitating effective strategic thinking processes. He has been advising to a large portfolio of multinationals such as the Bosch Group, BurganBank Turkey, Platin Group, BNP, Citibank and others on strategic thinking, assessment and modelling. His areas of expertise include assessing and structuring strategic insights, crisis management, reputation management, mediatization of strategic communications, social research, polling and data analysis, and risk management, and financial and political risk management. In these capacities he has led processes for identifying key challenges and opportunities, and formulating innovative approaches and strategies. Apart from his role as a strategy consultant for FutureBright Group, Prof. Han is currently a faculty member at the School of Economics, Social and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Relations at İstanbul’s Altinbas University where he also serves as the advisor to the Rector on marketing and strategic processes. He has studied in İstanbul, Boğaziçi, Koç, and Harvard Universities and earned BA, MA, Ph.D. and post-doctoral level degrees on economics, international relations, strategy, and negotiations and has lectured as a visiting scholar in international academic institutions, including St. Andrews University and US Marine Core College, where his philosophy on strategic thinking has been shared, evaluated and discussed. He also worked with an array of global think-tanks such as German Marshall Fund of the United States (US), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Germany) and l’Istituto per gli Studi di Politica (Italy) and EDAM (Turkey) and a diverse portfolio of global governmental and international institutions, including NATO. He has been a member of multinational second track diplomacy groups working on international commercial and political crisis and issues, as a leader in negotiations. Prof. Han has served as the International Relations Advisor for Turkish Exporters Assembly, the umbrella organization of Turkey’s exporting industries from 2003 to 2006, where he was responsible for structuring negotiations strategies with international stakeholders as well as on building specific companies and Turkey’s brand image. He has also worked as an M&A advisor and chief counsel and negotiator in international projects. He has been awarded a Young Leaders of Europe Scholarship from the US Department of State (2003), and has been a NATO/ TOLA observer in Afghanistan twice in 2005 and 2010. Prof. Han has testified before the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Dubrovnik in 2013. He has been a keynote speaker in more than three hundred domestic and international training programs, conferences, seminars and meetings on strategic assessment and analysis of global commercial and political issues. Believing in a wholistic and integrated approach to strategy, throughout his career Prof. Han has dealt with strategic issues of differing nature and complexity. Building on his vast expertise in public and private sectors, as well as his knowledge both as an executive and academician, he is dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to strategic situations. Based on his training that encompasses economy on the one end and psychology on the other, Prof. Han is committed to sharing his experience and knowledge with the prospective clients of FutureBright Dubai.

 

E-mail: moc.tnithgirberutuf@nahk.temha

Rana Pirinçcioğlu

Born in Ankara in 1980.

Graduated from the Middle East Technical University (METU) with a degree in Food Engineering in 2001, and subsequently began her career in the FMCG sector.

Started working in Reckitt Benckiser in a sales role, just as the country headed into a major economic crisis and recession; this experience gave her deep insights around the sales value chain as well as how to maneuver in turbulent times, experiences which she leveraged later in her various marketing-related roles.

She was then promoted into a new role, as Turkey & Eastern Europe Brand Manager for Calgon, a role which she held between 2003 and 2006. In this role, she actively managed all marketing tactics around Calgon, and drove the launch of multiple cross-country advertising campaigns that further solidified the brand’s dominance in the region.

In 2006, she took on a new challenge, as Marketing Manager at the world’s second biggest spirits company, Pernod Ricard. In this role, she drove Chivas Regal from it’s relaunch in the Turkey market in 2006 into the market leader position within three years; she also stabilized the decreasing market share and popularity of Absolut, and grew the tequila market with Olmeca. She became known in the industry for her creative and unique implementations of outdoor brandings and events, including Absolut Moon in Aya Yorgi Bay and Absolut Nisantasi New Year.

In 2011, she took the Marketing Manager position at Kimberly Clark, where she oversaw the Huggies Diapers brand, focusing on the design of the product portfolio and communications strategy – in her time in this role the brand turned a profit for the first time in its history in the Turkey market.

In 2013, she began working in a freelance role with Future Bright primarily on qualitative market research & insights initiatives, and since, has worked on more than 100 projects with the company.

Married with a son (Can,7) and a daughter (Ela, 1.5)

Lives in Dubai, since 2015

Loves swimming. Draws above average. Loves rock music and music festivals.

 

E-mail: moc.tnithgirberutuf@ulgoiccnirip.anar

Könül Aliyeva

Born in Sheki, a beautiful city in Azerbaijan, in 1976.

Graduated from faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics in Baku State University in 1997, afterwards took the first step of her career as a head of non-government organisation "Safe the street children".

After two years of experience here, Konul joined to Azersun Holding's team, the greatest food & industry company in Azerbaijan and took an action in marketing & category department with great dedication and between 2006 - 2013 she grows from Product manager to Deputy of Chairman Trade&Marketing.

In 2013 Azersun Holding reorganized new discount market for Azerbaijan, Konul with her market experience lead the Sales & Kategory Manager in Al Market. She was manage new opportunities in a retail market in Azerbaijan, open new branches for discount markets, analyze the category portfolio, analyze competitors and prepare the pricing strategies.

After one year she promout to Head of Edible Oil Division, Azersun Holding and started managing the oil factory with 270.000 tons product capacity. First of all Led on the implementation process of SAP system by preparing production costs for each unit.

She Managed Marketing and Planing Teams, control weekly production plans, manage stock costs, prepare development, innovation, export, sales and marketing, and pricing strategy, coordinate with R&D, Purchasing, Sales and other teams. She was responsible market share in Azerbaijan and other countries in which exporting brands operate.

Years dedicated to management make her acquire considerable skills such as analysing relationship between customer and consumer, develop a strategy for any issue, productive team work and leadership, and also high level of communication.

The education she got from "Adler International Learning" made this communication skill reach to the professional level. In other words, her coaching career that continues since 2019 support her abilities and let her understand human relations better.

If there is needed to give some examples to Konul's hobbies, we should put to the first place reading more than one book at the same time.

Also Konul states that she loves to work with young adults, because she has a lot to learn from them.

Her daughter (Esmer 19) and son (Jahandar 17) lives in Istanbul and educated at Univesity.

 

E-mail: moc.tnithgirberutuf@aveyila.lunok