Levent Kocatürk
CEO, COO, CxO, Co-Founder, Mentor
32 years of experience. Expert in growth, investment, structuring, re-organization, expansion, efficiency, sales, business development, banking relations, and cash management. Works as a fractional CxO at technology startups and provides mentoring.
Levent Kocatürk is a manager and entrepreneurship ecosystem leader with 32 years of experience in technology companies and ventures with high growth potential; specialized in company management, organizational transformation, operational efficiency, growth strategies and scaling.
Beginning his career in the technology and telecommunications sector following his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from METU, Kocatürk achieved significant successes from early stages in sales, business development and organization building.
With the Special Projects Department he built from scratch at Karel, he created new revenue areas for the company; leading transformations increasing customer satisfaction at Ericsson while managing a $400 million strategic contract process with Turkcell. Through his sales strategies at Siemens, he quadrupled mobile phone market share and won regional excellence awards.
Following his corporate career, Kocatürk shifted his focus to technology companies and ventures; assuming COO, CEO and C-level leadership roles at technology companies such as Telenity, Mobildev, SkyAtlas, V-Count and Evreka. During this period, he played active roles in company restructuring, operational transformation, international growth and investment processes.
At Mobildev Group, he restructured companies, managed the exit process of one of the group companies and brought other companies to sustainable profitability. At V-Count, he managed both Turkey and US operations; building Dubai and Hong Kong structures, completing two investment rounds and establishing strong C-level organizational structure.
At Evreka, he led restructuring focused on organizational transformation and process management; managing Turkey and Netherlands operations and successfully completing four separate investment rounds.
Today, through the fractional CxO model, he supports companies; particularly working on restructuring organizations of companies experiencing growth pains, creating efficient operation models and providing sustainable growth.
Through his approach evaluating company management not only through financial results but also through team structure, organization design, operational efficiency and leadership capacity; he actively supports ventures, scale-ups and growth-stage companies.
Areas of Contribution
- Company management and organizational structuring
- Fractional CEO / COO support
- Operational transformation and efficiency improvement
- Scale-up and growth management
- Sales and business development strategies
- Company restructuring processes
- Operations and process optimization
- Cash management and resource planning
- Investment round preparations and investment processes
- International growth strategies
- International expansion and market development
- Team building and leadership team structuring
- C-level organization design
- Crisis management
- Commercialization and revenue model creation
- Customer management and communication strategies
- Startup and scale-up mentoring
- Exit processes and growth management
Areas of Expertise
Company Management | Operations Management | Scale-up Management | Fractional CxO | Organizational Transformation | Sales and Business Development | Operational Efficiency | Cash Management | Investment Processes | International Growth | Team Building | Leadership | Crisis Management | Commercialization | Startup Mentoring | Process Management | Technology Companies | Organization Design