Speaker Bio
Business professional with 20 years of management experience in the fields of blockchain, emerging technologies, fintech, business development, marketing and sales. She received her bachelor's degree in economics from Istanbul University and her master's degree in marketing communications management from Galatasaray University, as well as her executive MBA from Ozyegin University.
She entered the tech sector after working in national and multinational companies as a marketing director, country manager, and many other roles. She is the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at XYZ Teknoloji, a blockchain-focused FinTech company based in Istanbul. Aysegul is a founding member of Istanbul Blockchain Woman, a non-profit association dedicated to empowering women in the blockchain ecosystem. The community's purpose is to organize social responsibility projects that will provide women with positive discrimination in terms of technology and blockchain. She is also a co-founder of the SOS Chain initiative, partners with needsmap.coop, which is a blockchain infrastructure fund for disasters and rapid humanitarian crises worldwide. She is Turkiye region community leader of Euthenia, Spain based community aiming gender parity in high-level managerial roles among the upcoming generation of womenin MENA and mediterrenian countries.