Could You Tell Us A Bit About Yourself Analysis

Could You Tell Us A Bit About Yourself?

I studied chemical engineering in Belgium. It was a five-year study. After five years I realized I was technically very good. One of my topics in my dissertation was to build a kind of power plant. A small one. I built it and it was up and running very smoothly, but later on, it proved that it would be a disaster to make it commercially available. Because the cost of production would be too high and it would bring zero profit. Then I realized that although I was technically good, I had no clue on how it would work in real life. Most of my colleagues started working in labs, R&D or production or consultancy departments right after they graduated. I needed something more to become more desirable in the
I had regional responsibility for Benelux, UK and Nordic. Later they asked me if I would be interested in moving to Switzerland? I said, "I might be but why Switzerland? I'm based in Belgium and it's cheaper here." They said, "The thing is you have to consolidate the offices in London, Paris, Belgium into Switzerland. Consolidation doesn't always mean hiring more people, so you will have to trim down the budget, move everything to Zurich and then you will be in charge of the whole team. By the way, if you don't do this, you most likely will lose your job." That was the conversation I had. Then I moved to Zurich in 2007, did the job for one year and then I went into trading in 2008. For Forex, industries and ... commodities. I started my new job on September 1st. Two weeks later Lehman Brothers went bust. There were too many ups and downs due to the low volatility. It was very challenging, very interesting, but for me, it had become the norm; I was really used to face challenges. So I worked in trading for 3 years, then went into Mergers and Acquisitions. I was working on 5 deals at the time; selling a styrofoam plant in Russia; selling a company to Vestas etc. And one of them was was with DowAksa. That's how I came into contact with them. So in the year of 2011, I spent half of my time here in Turkey. Negotiating with Mustafa Yılmaz, Betül, and Mithat. The
When you are hiring, you have to choose people with the right skillset for the right job. The focus should be on meritocracy. You can't say, "Oh I have this box, I have to fill it with people." Every person has to be accountable for what they're doing and for the results. The other responsibility is the books of DowAksa. First of all, it has to be done legally and ethically. Because you're representing DowAksa, you have to make sure you are doing it right. Internal Control is very important as well. You have to be competitive. We are not a nonprofit organization. If we were, we would adopt a different approach. But we should make profit and for that, you have to really strive for