nejat murat erkan
Istanbul, Turkey
Murat Erkan started out his career as a business consultant in USA. In the following years, he continued his career in pharmaceutical industry. Initially, he worked as a Project Leader in HealthMarketing at GlaxoSmithKline and later on, worked as a Project Manager in the field of allergy and immunology at Greer Laboratories, Inc. in NC, USA. After spending 7 years in USA, he moved back to Turkey in 2000. After his return, he continued his career in telecommunication industry at Telsim (now Vodafone Turkey). In 2005, he started to work at the leading GSM operator in Turkey. He started to work as Senior Project Manager at Turkcell Telecommunication, Inc. and managed multinational/multi-vendor Telco/IT projects. And since April 2011 he is working as Key Account Manager and Program Manager for Turkcell ICT for the group companies Best (in Belarus) and Astelit (in Ukraine).
Mr. Erkan holds a Bachelor of Science degree (BSChE) from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Campbell University in North Carolina, USA. He is a member of IPYD (Istanbul Project Management Association), is a member of Project Management Institute and PMI Turkey Chapter and is the PMI College of Performance Management-Global Advisory Committee representative for Turkey.
He gained his PMP certification in September 2005. He is keeping his certification valid by volunteered PMI & IPYD Association activities. He is the past president of IPYD and currently he is a Director of PMI TR.
He was the sponsor for Dynamics 2010 which is the largest international project management congress organised by a Turkish association in Turkey (www.ipyd.org). He is also teaching project management at Istanbul Technical University. In February 2013 he gain his ITIL certification. Currently he is working to complete «Co-Active Coaching» certification.
Murat Erkan was born in Istanbul in 1970. He speaks fluent Turkish, English, French and speaks basic Spanish and basic Russian. He is married and has a 6 years old son.