Asli Durukan Pasinli

• -Grew revenue by 63% (in USD) in hyper-inflationary economic climate
• -Entrepreneurial approach to fund raising ; Built outsourced business model through licensing that generates USD 0.5 million sustainable annual income
• -Grew human capital from 27 to 61 people and consistently improved human resource capacity through effective HR policies
• -Achieved significant conservation impact through;
• ‘Think like an NGO, act like an entrepreneur, operate like a corporate’ approach and through agility and ability to stay relevant during disasters
• · Built successful business models to solve environmental issues
• Developed replicable business models with sustainable income to solve environmental issues (ie paid mooring systems to protect sea meadows that are damaged due to anchoring of boats / earned 0.5 mm corporate funding).
• · Successfully broke silos to build solutions through collaborations with consulting companies (EY, BCG): built cross NGO collaborations that address not only environmental but also humanitarian issues (ie :a business model and an app to improve efficiency and humanitarian conditions of street waste pickers who serve the recycling industry.) The project received 0.6 mm Euro public funding)
• -Displayed outstanding agility and achieved significant impact during times of disasters by successfully leveraging high level relations
• -First NGO in the country to get permit from the president of Turkey to operate fire fighting helicopters during the historic wildfires of 2020. Received government permits, raised 1.5 mm Euros and rented a high capacity fire fighting helicopter from Austria that significantly contributed to the fire fighting efforts of the government for 7 days / 11 hours per day.
• - Demonstrated ability to stay relevant during disasters ; completed all the permits and started building the first ‘Green Village’ in the earthquake region (from recycled debris) with all the principles of Green Recovery.
• - Initiated an innovative mentoring program for middle and high schools that was adopted by the Ministry of Education and the program which mentors creative projects of plastic busters, water angels, food warriors and carbon holders spread to 27 cities and 2000 schools.
• - Built all the corporate systems for operational efficiency and completed the digitalization of the workflows
• -Built an intrapreneur culture that led to the launch of WWF Academia.

Banyan, the flagship brand of Soul Group is Turkey's first Asian Fusion restaurant and has become one of Istanbul's iconic restaurants on its' 20th year. It has received many local and international awards of excellence and has proudly entered the Michelin recommendation list.

Created 4 different successful restaurant brands and managed a team of 80 employees.

Became the Vice President of Restaurant Investor's Association, responsible for sustainability of the industry.

Initiated a 'Green Restaurant' movement and one of the group restaurants became Turkey's first WWF certified Green Restaurant.

An e-commerce company founded by The Coca-Cola Company Bottling Operations.

Successfully built a brand and a customer database for one of country's first B2B e-commerce companies.

Successfully managed and relaunched the 'Cappy Juice Brand. Increased sales by 109% through effective consumer and channel marketing strategies.

Assigned to the first 'Ethnic Marketing Pilot' in Austria.Launched a highly successful campaign for Turks living in Austria .

A diverse background in channel marketing, logistics, operations, and investment analysis

Nominated to the potential higher level management team / offered an international post.

Received extensive training on a logistics investment analysis software and successfully launched it in Turkey.

Graduated in High Honors GPA 3.9 / 4.0

Teaching Assistant with a full scholarship,

Bogazici University consistently ranks first in Turkey and 197th internationally (US News & World Report 2021). It is the most selective university. It is the first American higher education institution founded outside the US.