Ali Sözen

Ak Gıda- İçim Süt CEO

After completing his undergraduate studies at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Management Engineering, he received a scholarship from the Ministry of National Education and completed his master's degree in finance at the University of Toledo in the United States.

He started his career at MetLife in the USA. He then worked as Brand Manager at Kar Gıda and as Commercial Marketing Manager at Inchcape Retrans.

Between 1995 and 2002, he worked at Coca-Cola İçecek as Key Account Manager and Asia Sales Center Manager, respectively. He then served as Vice President of Sales and Distribution at Yaşar Holding until 2007. Between 2007 and 2009, he worked as Regional Trade Director at Coca-Cola Nigeria. Afterwards, he joined Yaşar Holding and served as the president of the Food and Beverage Group until 2011.

In 2011, he joined Yıldız Holding as Vice President of Food and Beverage Group.

Since December 2013, he has been the CEO of Ak Gıda- İçim Süt, a subsidiary of Group Lactalis.

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