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Perihan İnci served as Chair of the Board of Directors at İnci Holding A.Ş. from 2013 to 2016 and continues to serve as a Board Member. Concurrently, she holds a Board Member position at Maxion-Jantaş A.Ş. and serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of PBA İç ve Dış Tic. A.Ş. and its subsidiaries, a company she founded. Additionally, she is a Permanent Member of the Cevdet İnci Foundation Board of Trustees.
From 1996 to 2013, she held various Board Member roles within İnci Holding and its companies, primarily within the automotive supply industry. Between 1987 and 2008, she worked uninterruptedly in various managerial roles in the textile sector.
Perihan İnci actively supports Industry 4.0, digitalization, and entrepreneurship projects across her platforms and is a certified Angel Investor. She is currently Chair of the Digital Turkey Roundtable within TÜSİAD, where she has served as a Board Member for two terms. As of 2024, she also holds Board and Executive Committee membership in TURKONFED. She previously served on the boards of ESİAD and TKYD and is affiliated with various civil society organizations, including the International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC), TAİDER, and the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF).
From 1999 to 2010, Perihan İnci served as Belgium’s Honorary Consul in Antalya and, in 2010, was honored with the “Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne” by the Kingdom of Belgium. She was reappointed as Belgium’s Honorary Consul in İzmir in 2023.
She graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1982, completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy at Istanbul University in 1986, and the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School in 2007. Fluent in English and French, Perihan İnci is the mother of a daughter and a son.
Mehmet Kürümlüoğlu holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing., German master’s equivalent) from the University of Stuttgart.
In 1998, he began his career as a researcher and project manager at the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT) at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2002, he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart.
He currently leads the “Advanced Systems Engineering” Research Department and heads the Fraunhofer IAO PDM/PLM Consultancy Center.
Kürümlüoğlu teaches Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management and the University of Stuttgart. He is also an instructor for the “PLM Professional” certification course.
With extensive experience in over 100 national and international consulting and R&D projects, he specializes in fields such as Advanced Systems Engineering, PLM Systems/Digitalization in R&D, Industry 4.0/Digitalization/Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), R&D Management, innovation and technology management, and R&D strategy development.
He has worked across a range of industries, primarily in automotive, machinery/special machinery, component manufacturing, home appliances, and medical technologies.
Matthias Bues holds a degree in electrical engineering (M. Sc. Equivalent) from University of Stuttgart, and a PhD from University of Stuttgart in engineering on the topic of high-quality real-time rendering for virtual reality applications.
He has been working at Fraunhofer IAO since 2001, establishing its Visual Interactive Technologies Group in 2009 and leading it since then. His areas of expertise include Virtual and Augmented Reality technology and its applications in industry, software architectures for visual interactive systems, and display technology. He has a long record of successful acquisition and leadership of international research and development projects, both publicly funded and under industry contract from different fields of industry, among which are automotive, aerospace, and telecommunication. He also leads the Visual Interactive Technologies Lab at Fraunhofer IAO.
Matthias Bues publishes regularly in national and international conferences and serves in the academic community in various roles such as general chair and program committee member of international conferences in his research domain. Furthermore, he holds several patents on Virtual Reality and display technology. He also teaches at Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences.
After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, respectively in Mechanical Engineering and from the Institute of Science and Engineering at the Bosphorus University, Süheyl Baybali started his career at FCA Turkey. He served as Deputy General Manager, General Manager, and Executive Board Member at Nursanlar Group between 1989-2007. After serving as General Manager at DentaŞ Ambalaj between 2007-2009, he became a shareholder of FAW-China Distributor in Turkey in 2010-2013.
Süheyl Baybalı, who held active positions on the TAYSAD Audit Board between 2006 and 2013, served as its Auditing Board Chairman between 2010 and 2013 and as its Executive Coordinator between 2013 and 2020.
He is currently the Vice Chair of the Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association and the Managing Partner of Innoway Consulting Ltd.
Hasan Karslıoğlu graduated from Kırıkkale University Faculty of Law in 2002. He completed his master’s degree in Commercial Law at Gazi University’s Institute of Social Sciences in 2005 and earned his doctorate in Private Law in 2015, focusing on covert profit distribution in joint-stock companies in his doctoral thesis, establishing his expertise in this field. Karslıoğlu began his academic career as a lecturer at Cyprus Mediterranean Karpaz University, where he served from 2014 to 2020. Since 2020, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical University’s Faculty of Management, where he teaches courses on commercial law and R&D law.
An active speaker at conferences and symposiums, Karslıoğlu has presented numerous papers in the field of commercial law. He has published various books and articles on topics such as trade secret law, general assembly decisions in joint-stock companies, and corporate restructuring.
Additionally, Karslıoğlu is a Founding Partner at Sistem Global Danışmanlık A.Ş.
Atty. Sertel Şıracı is one of the managing partners at Sch-Legal. With nearly 20 years of experience, he provides litigation and consultancy services to both domestic and international clients in the fields of information technology, technology law, intellectual, and industrial property rights. He completed his master’s program at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law with a thesis on Software Law and has completed his doctoral studies in Patent Law.
During certain terms, he teaches courses on Digital Intellectual Property and E-Commerce Law in the IT Law master’s program at Bahçeşehir University. Sertel Şıracı is also a founder of the startups Legalmatic.net and Wecover.io. As a registered trademark and patent attorney, he has previously served as the Chair of the Istanbul Bar Association’s IT Law Commission and is a founding member of the Open Data and Technology Association, E-Commerce and Internet Law Association, and Data Protection Association.
