ERKAN CERITOĞLU
General Manager, A101Erkan Ceritoglu received his BA in Mechanical Engineering from Koç University in 2005 and started his career in 2006 as a Sales Supervisor at Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices. After four years of sutures, surgeons and an abundant OR experience, he went on to get his MBA at the IE Business School International. After graduating in 2010, he founded Mavikep, a pioneer online education platform powered with an internally developed interactive white board technology, which allows students to draw and upload files. Seeing that his business model would not succeed in the long term, Erkan returned to his favorite job, consultancy and between 2013 - 2014, he worked as Project Leader at the OC&C Strategy Consultants. During this period, he took the opportunity to combine entrepreneurship with corporate life. He established the A101 personal care products chain EVE between 2014-2015 and worked as the General Manager of the initiative. Then, he returned to the group and worked as the A101 Regional General Manager between 2016-2018 in Çorlu for 14 months between the canola and vineyards of Trakya, which he led with a dizzying passion. Before long, he started to work as A101 Promotion Planning and Merchandising Director in 2018 and Logistics and Supply Chain Director from 2019 onwards. His passions include but are not limited to good wine, BJJ, a healthy life he will lead for 150 years and arts.