İhsan Ceyhan Solak Email & Phone Number

İhsan Ceyhan Solak is a Chief Executive Officer at SEM İnternet Reklam Hizmetleri ve Danısmanlık A.S. based in Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye, Asia. 27 years of experience in multinational business career in top global companies through sales, marketing, and business development in different geographies and departments of foreign trade, retail, consulting, and digital marketing industries. Extensive experience from opportunity generation to managing long-term large accounts/government departments and cross-functional/complex strategy sales, marketing and delivery excellence. Worked on various government and UN tenders in Middle Eastern countries through USA, Germany & Italy offices of Tekfen Holding. Led sales (key account - traditional distributor - away from home channels) through big teams, distributors and various multi-task projects in Coca-Cola and Danone. Managed consulting and services input to various Turkey’s and IBM’s Global 100 accounts in Consumer Products & Retail industries, in complex end-to-end strategic projects especially on front office transformation, target operating model, organizational restructuring, customer strategy and online retailing in IBM. At Google, responsible for the Retail industry in Turkey consulting on how to build a strong online business using digital marketing initiatives, mobile presence and video marketing as well as driving online mass traffic to brick-and-mortar. Heading the largest independent Data-Driven Marketing Agency in Turkey; SEM owned by Sabancı DXBV Holland, focuses on Performance Marketing, Brand Marketing, SEO, Data Intelligence, Web Analytics and Advanced analytics across industries, helping clients get the most out of their online advertising efforts through campaign management, deep data analysis and business intelligence. SEM is a Google EMEA Premier Partner Award winner in both 2021 & 2022, finalist in two categories in 2024. MEA performance agency of the year 2024 by MMA Smarties. In parallel, teaching 2 classes; e-sales & digital advertising to MIS / E-Commerce / International Trade students at Yeditepe University as a part-time lecturer. At the same time participating in different Sabancı Edu programs as a lecturer and a keynote speaker mainly on digital businesses, digital future, new jobs, start-up ecosystems etc.