Our Team

Duysal Aşkun Çelik, PhD.

Founding Partner

Having graduated from the English High School (Nişantaşı Anatolian High School) and Arrowhead High School with high honor degrees, Duysal Aşkun completed her undergraduate and graduate degree in Psychology from Boğaziçi University also with high honor degrees. At 2000, she started her professional life in Nestlé Turkey Human Resources department. She then continued with Colgate Palmolive Turkey Sales department as an Account Manager assistant and then as a Customer Marketing Business Analyst. In the last quarter of 2002, she moved on to take a specialist role in Acıbadem Health Care Group. During her years in the group, she took on many projects related with the call center agents and also designed & conducted many training and consulting projects with the health care personnel and the managers.  In addition to her roles in those organizations, she worked as a freelance trainer and a consultant with several training & consulting firms such as RCBA Door and UykuTulumu between the years 2002-2007. At 2004, she became a founding coordinator for Turkey as part of an NGO Humanity’s Team Worldwide which has 15,000 volunteer members in 90 countries. In her last two years in the organization, she has served as a Worldwide Teams and Operations Coordinator. As part of her global role, she formed functional teams with many volunteers from distant locations and managed their HR processes. After five years of doctorate work in the Organizational Behavior branch of the Department of Management in the Marmara University, she has completed her PhD degree with her thesis “Quality of Work Life in Call Centers” in 2007. With her thesis research, she has developed an organizational model regarding the organizational inputs that are necessary to reduce turnover intentions of employees working in call centers. Having started her own company in 2004, Dr. Aşkun Çelik has been working professionally under the areas of organizational training, human resources processes & functions, leadership & teambuilding, executive and career coaching.

Cem Kafadar

Founding Partner

Having graduated from the Istanbul Technical University in the year 1987, Cem Kafadar entered Garanti Koza Construction Company in 1988. For 10 years, he held many different positions as a Site Manager, Technical Office Manager, and as an Assistant Project Manager. Between the years 1998-2004, he worked as an internal audit specialist, planning supervisor, and work health and safety specialist in Alarko. In 2004, he continued his career in IKEA Ümraniye as a Technical Manager. At 2006, he started his own company about online consulting services. And, at the year 2007, he became a founding partner of Bilişim Reklamcılık Ltd and started collaborating with Smart Solutions. Cem Kafadar is the founder of several online recruitment services websites such as www.yapiilani.com and www.1insaat.com. Through these sites, he is providing countless useful information related with the construction sector. With yapiilani.com, he is broadcasting many ads under the slogan “Every Ad is an Opportunity”. And 1insaat.com is the first and the only social and professional networking web portal with over 40,000 members especially tailored to the needs of the construction and engineering sector. Cem Kafadar also owns a professional blog at https://cemkafadar.wordpress.com/ Cem Kafadar is a board member of the Chamber of Civil Engineers İstanbul Branch. He is being invited as a keynote speaker in several universities, professional chambers and in many different NGOs to talk about the construction sector and internet solutions.

Müjdat Güler

Owner of Novagroup-Joint Venture of Smart Solutions Human Resources USA

Mujdat Guler was born in August 2, 1954 in Istanbul Turkey. He studied in Istanbul and graduated from Istanbul University Business Administration Faculty in 1976. He had been running his business in Istanbul Turkey from 1976 to 1996. He was involved in construction – food – forestry products. He was a production manager, member of board and president. And also, he was a developer and investor in the field of residential and commercial construction. . Besides foreign trade consulting, he makes investment and development in real estate sector. Since the best growing business opportunities are planned next to Orlando International Airport, he focused on and made a decision to make an investment at International Corporate Park as it is already planned as a tax free zone, medical city, silicon valley, medical university and some other projects. Orlando is a city that produce row materials for UCF, UCF medical school which is a new project, technology and health sectors. These opportunities together with the advantages of airport, tax free zone and regional center will make investors from India, China, Israel, South Korea, Turkey and also companies from California invest in this area. Guler’s specialties include: Foreign trade consulting, investor and developer in real estate.

Adnan Duygun, MBA.

Training Partner

Adnan Duygun has completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Control and Electronics in Marmara University and then has carried out his graduate studies at Yeditepe University MBA Program, along with Istanbul Ticaret University International Trade Graduate Program and Marketing MBA in the Istanbul University. While holding 3 masters degrees, Duygun is still continuing his doctorate studies at the Istanbul University Department of Management. Adnan Duygun has worked as a Technical Service Manager in Atıl Elektronik Company, then worked as a Sales and Marketing Manager at 3A Bilgisayar, Elektronik, Telekomünikasyon Company, worked as a Business Development Manager at Group 4 Securitas Company, Sales and Marketing Manager at  Kulvar Bilgisayar Donanım Yazılım Company, and finally as a Consultant to the Secretary General at İstanbul Genç İşadamları Association. Having also taken certain assignments under the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System Start-ups, Duygun is working professionally under the areas: CRM, Customer Complaints, Persuasion and Communication in Sales, Negotiation Techniques, TQM, Management and Organization, Synergetic Management, Problem Solving Skills, Strategic Management and SWOT Analysis, Marketing Management, Sales Management, One-on-One Sales, and International Trade and Marketing.