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Akın Ongor
Edit ProfileChief Executive Officer of Garanti Bank
Education
And was graduated firstly from TED and then METU. He studied business administration at METU and then started his career as a marketing expert.
Career
In the college years, he played basketball as a guard. After working in different industries for 13 years, he joined Garanti as one of the vice presidents(responsible for marketing again). In 1991, the owner of the bank(Ayhan Şahenk) offered Öngör to be the new Chief Executive Officer of Garanti.
And he ran the company for a decade.
Garanti experienced a tough and quite successful metamorphosis process in his period. When Akın Öngör sat on his desk as the Chief Executive Officer, Garanti"s total market value was around $150 million.
And after a ten years work, the value increased to 5 billion United States dollar and Garanti was chosen as "The Best Bank on Earth" by Euromoney. The change was so successful that, it became a case study in both Harvard Business School and London Business School.
And that case study is still actively being lectured to Master of Business Administration students in these schools.
