Özden Anık Tekir, who graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Economics, worked for 10 years in corporate companies such as Kasra A.Ş., Can Sigorta A.Ş. and Aviva Hayat ve Emeklilik A.Ş. in the insurance sector. Her strong empathy skills played a role in her better understanding of individual and corporate relationships, and development of negotiation and sales techniques. She worked as the Deputy General Manager of PDR Conferences at PDR Özel Eğitim Danışmanlık ve Yönetim Danışmanlık AŞ and gained experience in giving trainings and organizing conferences in that period. Between September 2008 and December 2009, she acted as the director of the Pendik Women Entrepreneur Business Development Center, one of the four centers opened in Turkey within the scope of the women’s Entrepreneurship Support Project conducted by the European Union together with KOSGEB. From December 2009 to January 2018, he was the director of Özyeğin University Entrepreneurship Center. Currently, she conducts many entrepreneurship training programs, organizes events in the field of entrepreneurship, gives speeches at conferences and seminars, and is a jury member at various important events in Turkey and Europe.

Berrak Kutsoy, Pegasus Airlines Board of Directors Consultant, TOBB Young Entrepreneurs Board Consultant, TIM Entrepreneurship Consultant, TÜGİAD Vice Chairman, Young Achievement Education Foundation Board Member 

Berrak Kutsoy who was born in Mersin in 1976, is a graduate of Koç University Business Administration Department. 

She started her career in 1999 as Foreign Transactions Assistant at BNP-AK-Dresdner Bank. She then completed her MBA in 2001 at London Middlesex University Business School. After returning to Turkey in 2002, she worked as a project manager at Denizbank Aş and as a Foreign Market Officer at Unsa Ambalaj, respectively, and in 2006 he worked as an Export Manager at the German Mitterteich brand associated with Kütahya porcelain. Since May 2009, she has been giving consultancy service for the Chairman of the Board of Pegasus Airlines and the TOBB Young Entrepreneurs Board, which has 10,500 members in 81 provinces. 

Kutsoy is Vice President TUGIAD, member of the board of Directors of Young Achievement Education Foundation, a member of Koç University Alumni Association, TED (Tennis, Fencing, Mountaineering Sports Club), a member of the UIP-the platform for international cooperation executive board member, member of the organizing committee of the TIM Innovation Week and an Advisory Board member of BizBizze Idea Support Center for Women and she is fluent in English and German. Kutsoy, who is the entrepreneurship and innovation consultant of the Turkish Exporters Association (TIM), takes part in many projects in order to increase the awareness of entrepreneurship and the number of role models, writes articles in Startup and Business Life magazines, mentors and invests in startup companies.

For many years, she worked at various levels in the field of marketing and sales in many multinational and domestic companies in the pharmaceutical industry and worked as a senior manager. During this period, she received training from various institutions both in Turkey and abroad on subjects such as marketing, sales, customer relationship management, negotiation skills, talent management, and leadership. She played an active role in the talent assessment centers of the institutions she worked for.

Lal Yükeb has been continuing her business life as an individual and corporate coach since 2015, and also takes part in training activities, talent assessment and development center studies. It takes great pleasure in supporting the personal development of people. As an experienced professional and coach, it aims to support people to gain self-awareness and to contribute the organizations to go further. She has ACC (Associate Certified Coach) accreditation given by the International Coaching Federation. She has a bachelor’s degree from Dokuz Eylül University and an MBA from Istanbul University Institute of Business Economics. She is married and she has two children.

She was born in İstanbul in 1981. She is a graduate of Eskişehir Anadolu University Business Administration Department. Between 2000-2013, she worked as Auditor and Manager in a certified public accountant firm. She audited companies operating in dozens of sectors, from tourism to textile, in a sworn financial consultancy firm. She has been serving in her own company on financial and legal issues such as outsourcing accounting services, tax, social security, labor law since 2013. In addition, she gives service as a court expert in the fields of professional expertise in the Commercial Courts and in the field of property regime liquidation in Family Courts. She is married and she has one children.

Neşen Yücel, who started her career in Yapı Kredi Bank – Retail Banking service, continued as the Credit Cards Marketing and Marketing Communications Manager at Pamukbank and Akbank from 2001 until 2012 after receiving her MBA degree in West Georgia. After working for Turkey’s largest credit card brands namely American Express, Axess and Wings in fields of and creating and implementing a communication strategy, she decided to continue his career as entrepreneur and established her own company in 2012. The entrepreneurial journey that started with Minerva Pazarlama Tasarımı ve Danışmanlık soon expanded with the establishment of Stage-Co platform which then became one of the leading startup community platforms in Turkey with more than 150 events, training and conference organizations aimed at consulting domestic and foreign startups, training, innovation and development of startup culture in our country. Neşen Yücel founded CoderDojo Turkey in 2013 and brought together the first volunteer community in our country to teach free computer programming to children and became a pioneer in this field. Neşen Yücel, who spoke on the TEDx stage 2 times, gathered these events under the roof of the Yeni Yetenek Kooperatifi (New Talent Cooperative), of which she was one of the founders, and she was named one of the 30 women who led Digital in Turkey in 2018 by Digital Age magazine. Neşen Yücel, who is also on the Board of Directors of BizBizze Association of Idea and Support for Women continues to be part of activities such as Kurumsaldan Sonra Hayat Var mı (Is There Life After Corporate?) and Startup Ladies Series events, entrepreneurship, design-oriented thinking, business plan creation, to give career-oriented trainings such as Start Me Up and to work with startups in Turkey and abroad. 

Seda Bildik Erdoğmuş was born in 1971 in Istanbul. She graduated from Mimar Sinan University Architecture Department in 1995. She completed her master’s degree in YTU Architecture Department in 1998. Since 1995, she has been continuing her architectural design, project and application studies in Project Dizayn Architecture, which she established together with Selçuk Erdoğmuş. Seda Bildik was awarded the YEM Stand Award in 2001, and the 11th National Architecture Award of the Chamber of Architects in the field of idea presentation with the project “Children of Cihangir”, which she made within CGD (Cihangir Beautification Association) in 2007. 

She continues her studies and researches in the Children and Architecture Commission of the Istanbul Chamber of Architects Büyükkent Branch and the Sulukule Working Group of the Human Settlements Association. In addition, she runs workshops, presentations and trips with ÇEKÜL Foundation and CGD (Cihangir Beautification Association). Her articles on architecture, urban life and the effects of the city on children are published in various magazines. She lives in Cihangir with her son Derin and her husband Selçuk Erdoğmuş.

Using entrepreneurship as a means of access to sports and gender equality in Turkey, she tries to support education of women and girls, increase entrepreneurship culture among women and empowerment of them. 

Sports, business life and entrepreneurship is defined as specific areas traditionally for men in Turkey. These social phenomena are also supported by the venues where these activities take place. For example, sports and exercise centers, more than 80% of which consist of billiard halls, football fields and bodybuilding halls, almost completely exclude women from these areas. 

B-fit, which was founded by Bedriye Hülya, not only gives women the opportunity to exercise and get to know their bodies by creating women-friendly spaces, but also provides them with various knowledge and skills that they can use in other areas of their lives. 

Established and run by women, b-fit centers enable women to both establish their own businesses and gain work experience. 

Bedriye Hülya managed to spread b-Fit centers to 200 different points in the country with a successful franchise/dealership model in a short time. It paved the way for hundreds of women to become entrepreneurs and to participate in business life, many of them having their first experience, providing 90,000 women with the opportunity to make sport, exercise and self-development. In the recent years, b-fit centers have become to serve as a platform for women to develop and implement social responsibility projects. 

She has designed the BizBizze Idea and Support Unit for Women project as a social entrepreneur since 2016, and has enabled the use of full capacity of b-fit and opportunities for the execution of the project, and provides individual consultancy services to this project.