Board of Directors

After graduating from Robert College, Zeynep Yalım Uzun completed her university education at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, USA in economics and psychology. She has been on level C positions for the last 15 years of her career and has great experience in global brands, marketing and business management. Yalım Uzun has expertise in the Fast-Moving and Durable Consumption sectors in addition to team and brand management in markets such as Latin America, USA, Far East, India, Pakistan, Europe, China and Africa. During her career of more than 25 years at Unilever, one of the world’s largest fast-moving consumer goods companies, she has worked in Poland, Turkey and the UK and managed the global and regional operations of Unilever’s various brands. Yalım Uzun was the Vice President of Omo, Unilever’s second largest brand, operating in a geography of 80 countries, based in London. Zeynep Yalım Uzun has served as Chief Marketing Officer at Arçelik. Yalım Uzun, who manages a marketing team of 2,000 people spread over a wide region from Thailand to the USA, working on areas such as global brand and product management, consumer insight, industrial design, consumer services and small household appliances at Arçelik, undertook the responsibility of 14 global and local brands, including Beko. Yalım Uzun has 10 years of experience in the international start-up ecosystem, including the Boston-based accelerator Mass Challenge, and currently offers mentoring and consulting services to various start-up companies. She is also an Independent Board Member at Doğanlar Furniture Group. Zeynep Yalım Uzun is on the Board of Directors of European Women on Boards, which works on gender equality in the business world. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Futurists Association of Turkey, a member of the Northwestern University Family Council and a trustee of the Koruncuk Foundation. Yalım Uzun has received many awards throughout her career and in 2020, she was selected by Advertising Age as one of the 20 women leaders in Europe’s “Women to Watch” list.