Our Fonder

İnci Gülsün Özkul, PhD

Senior Consultant / Founding Partner
İnci Gülsün Özkul graduated from Business Administration Faculty of Marmara University in 1986. She attended Philosophy Department of Middle East Technical University for two years. Her thesis is about ‘Measurement Stress and Motivation in Changed Organizations’. She graduated from Department of Organizational Behavior, Marmara University in 1991.

Having completed her PhD in Business Administration at Beykent University, Inci Gülsün Özkul continues her academic studies and publications on human resources, entrepreneurship, family businesses and professional managers, NGOs and women entrepreneurs.

In 1989, she carried on research analysis on ‘motivation and stress in an organization’ at London Polytechnic in London for one year. İnci Gülsün Özkul worked in “Export Department” in International Industry and Commerce Bank (1987-1989) and “Human Resources Management and Planning Department” in Garanti Bank (1990-1995). She carried on her carrier as a manager in Toprak Bank, Bank Kapital, and Yurt Bank, responsible for all functions of Human Resources. At the same time she moderated many training programs and installed various projects. Since May 2001, Inci Özkul Gülsün is a partner of avea and works as a consultant.

She has been managing avea executive since 2012, which was structured under avea consultancy in 2009. avea Executive company, of which she is the founder, provides retain executive search in Turkey and abroad.
Avea interim, of which she is the founder, has been operating since 2013, established by Inci Gülsün Özkul.

avea executive

avea, “Executive Search”, started to serve as a function of Management and Human Resources Consultancy under the umbrella of avea consultancy on March 1, 2001.

avea consultancy continues to provide “Retained Executive Search” consultancy, as well as talent acquisition project design, management consultancy and human resources consultancy. Since its establishment, the company has realized many successful projects.

In such a period where the importance of competition increases, while accessibility to financial resources, raw materials and energy, which are necessary for institutions, becomes much easier, the importance and value of human resources increase day by day. Such globalization of life necessitates global thinking and more strategic decisions regarding human resources. The rapidly changing conditions and digitalization in our world also directly affect human resources management.

At this point, avea Executive enables you to reach human resources with strategic value in line with your company vision.

Our experienced staff of avea Executive aims you to benefit from the selection and placement of managers with high ethics and standards in order to respond to your human resources needs with scientific methods. The methods used can be traditional or contemporary, but the comparative evaluation criteria is taken into account and research-based and measurable values ​​are adhered to.

International connections of avea Executive are used in line with the needs of our customers. Our customers are served together with our overseas solution partners whose success has been proven in multinational companies and government organizations in the international arena. avea Executive also provides solutions for its customers with its office in Dubai serving the JCC region and surrounding countries and its London solution partner. International qualified support is provided by our solution partner located in India.

avea executive operates abroad as well as in Turkey, and provides support to Turkish companies operating in neighboring countries in selection, placement and management consultancy.

avea Interim is a sister company with avea Interim whenever the companies temporarily demand, it recruits professionals highly specialized in their subjects. For instance, it provides our clients with seamless access to professionals of the highest level of independent talent, during merging and acquisition operations. It also provides professionals with deep expertise in technological and functional issues for interim leadership roles, or in-house, project-based work on critical projects such as conducting a market assessment.

avea Interim provides professionals for: developing an e-commerce strategy, building a global supply chain, temporary CFO to take the company public, sustaining during the period when the successors in the business will get trained and experienced to carry on the job. avea Interim is also highly sensitive in providing professionals to the family business. 

from 2001

to the present

Vision:

Assisting our clients to be a strong ring of global value chain with proper candidates.

Mission:

Assisting our clients to be a strong ring of global value chain with proper candidates.

Basic Principles:

Honesty
We are strongly tied to the ethical values during the realization of our projects.

Competency and Proficiency
We successfully finalize our projects on time with our highly competent and proficient team members.

Efficiency and Effectiveness 

Avea executive conveys correct information in all of its communications and guides the parties in correct information exchange.

Be specific and objective
During the recruitment process, our evaluations are always specific and objective, away from prejudgments.

Reliability (Privacy Policy)
avea executive respects to the privacy of the information given by the client and candidates.

Loyalty
avea gives priority to the long-term relationship with its client.

Equal Opportunities
avea is quite sensitive to give equal opportunities to the candidates having same qualifications