Mert Başar

Working in the business world for 20 years, N. Mert Başar has started his caret as a product marketing manager at Compaq Company; and then assumed the following roles respectively; product marketing group manager, personal systems group manager and sales manager for large scale customers. Working as Sales and Marketing Manager at Hewlett Packard between 2002 and 2007, Başar then worked for Turkcell as Corporate Customers Marketing Director until 2013.

At Türk Telekom Group, he assumed the Chief Marketing Officer position at TTNET between 2013 and 2014. In 2014, he started to serve as Türk Telekom and TTNET Chief Consumer Marketing Officer, and he has been the Chief Corporate Marketing Officer of Türk Telekom, TTNET and Avea brands since 2015. Since the brand unification of Avea, TTNET and Türk Telekom under the single brand of “Türk Telekom” on January 2016, Mert Başar has been working as Türk Telekom Chief Corporate Marketing Officer.

A graduate of Kadıköy Anatolia High School and Business Administration Faculty at Istanbul University, Mert Başar completed Advanced Management Program (AMP) in IESE Barcelona. Mert Başar was ranked on the list of “50 CMO’s to Watch” in 2014 organized by Global Telecoms Business Magazine and also ranked among the “Most Successful Marketing Managers of the Year” list of Capital Magazine in 2013 and 2014.