Murat Yatağan
2008 - Computer Engineering Graduate
Murat Yatağan is a proven product marketing and growth strategy leader with over 12 years of experience in product management, web analytics, search engine optimization and marketing, app store optimization, conversion rate optimization, and user experience. He has led optimization, product management, analytics, and growth strategy at companies such as Brainly, Global Savings Group, Google, and Microsoft. Murat is currently the VP of Growth at Brainly, focused on building and scaling high-performing growth teams and increasing Brainly's 400 million monthly visitors.
Sinem Çelik
2010 - International Trade and Finance Graduate
After graduation, I started to work as an Export Supervisor in Fjord Marin, a company with foreign partners, between 2010-2012. I worked at Opet Fuchs, first as a CFO assistant and then as a Budget-Reporting Specialist between 2012-2013. Afterwards, I worked as a Finance Specialist at CMS Jant Sanayi between 2013-2015. Thanks to be a graduate of Izmir University of Economics, the vision, foreign language, education and all the opportunities the University provided me with, I have become a very sophisticated professional in all these business experiences.
Fulya Akgül Durakçay
2009 - International Relations and European Union Graduate
The undergraduate education I started to study at Izmir University of Economics in 2004 has created a solid foundation for me to start my academic career. Thanks to the presentations and assignments we prepared in classes, as well as the encouragement of active participation by all our professors in the Department of International Relations and the European Union, which I studied very fondly, the fact that analytical thinking and questioning became an indispensable part of our learning was reflected in all areas of my life.
Cansu Adaş
2013 - Mathematics Graduate
In every period of my education life, the lesson I was most interested in and the most successful was mathematics. Therefore, in 2008, it was inevitable that my preference form would consist of mathematics departments of universities. And why Izmir University of Economics? The well-equipped academic staff who have contributed greatly to science with their articles and books published in Turkey and abroad, scholarship opportunities, student life in a wonderful city like Izmir, and the medium of instruction being English, as well as the second foreign language education they provide played an important role in my choice of the Mathematics Department of Izmir University of Economics.
Simin Ercan
2012 - International Relations and European Union Graduate
I stepped into Izmir University of Economics in 2002 for the first time. I dropped out of school in 2004 due to unexpected sad events. I returned to school in 2009 at the insistence of my family. During this time, I got married and became a mother. Everyone except me believed I could graduate, but I was caught between motherhood and being a student. Then I decided what I really wanted. I was very happy to be a part of Izmir University of Economics.
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Murat Yatağan |
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Sinem Çelik |
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Fulya Akgül Durakçay |
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Cansu Adaş |
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Simin Ercan |
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