Can Kuterdem

Can Kuterdem graduated from Middle East Technical University, Environmental Engineering in 1999 and completed his post-graduate studies on Civil Engineering at North Carolina University in 2001. Afterwards, in 2009, Kuterdem completed his Masters of Business Administration degree at Duke University.

Kuterdem began his career as an Environmental Engineer at Alpha Gamma Technologies in 2001 and promoted to General Secretary during his 6 years tenure at Orbit Energy, a subsidiary of Alpha Gamma. Between 2009 and 2012, he served as a Consultant & Corporate Development Member in New York at Boston Consulting Group HQ. In 2012, Kuterdem moved to Seoul and joined Samsung Global Strategy Group after where he continued his career as Project Manager, Business Development Manager & New Business Applications Group Lead at Samsung Group of companies. In July 2016, he appointed as the Strategy Director of Samsung Electronics Turkey. As of July 2019, Kuterdem was appointed as the Regional Head of Mobile Business at Samsung Electronics MENA RHQ and leading the development activities of 23 countries which has turnover up to 9 billion dollars.

As an expert at strategic planning, corporate development and competition analysis, Can Kuterdem speaks English, Italian, Spanish, Korean fluently.