The Years Best Young Manager of Turk Henkel in 1989, the Highest Performance Award of Care Chemicals Worldwide by President Mr. Ridinger in 2003 and the World Innovation Award of BASF for his company Canan Kozmetik Group.

Wednesday, 22 October 2008

izzet Guvenilir

A driven and experienced entrepreneurial leader with a deep strategic and technical understanding of the chemical industry. Track record of building and leading high performance teams in the creation of the better level institutionalization on the family owned companies. Able to combine multinational and international organizations experience, strategic insight and managerial know-how to synthesize new bold challenges.


Master of Science from Institute of Science and Technology of Istanbul Technical University and Bachelor’s degree at Chemical Engineering of Istanbul Technical University.

He has worked 17 years for Turk Henkel AS / Cognis Kimya AS. He was a manager in the gainful two Strategic Business Units: "Surface Technologies" and "Care Chemicals".
He has participated international meeting and training studies in many countries – Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Jordan, U.A.E, Thailand, USA – and Turkiye. He was Sales and Marketing Manager for Turkiye and closed 20 countries in his last position of Cognis Kimya. He added his performance to the global company strategies.

He has started to manage Canan Kozmetik companies at the beginning of 2004 as General Manager, left his position at the end of the year 2006. In November 2007, L'oreal has signed agreement for acquisition of Canan Kozmetik AS group.

He is currenty in international trade area, preparing venture programs and still reading history.

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