Akın Öngör (born 1945) is a Turkish former chief executive officer of

Garanti Bank Garanti BBVA (legal name Türkiye Garanti Bankası A.Ş; formerly referred to as Garanti Bank in English) is a Turkish financial services company based in Turkey. 86% of Garanti's stakes are owned by the Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argent ...

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Early life and education

He was born in 1945. He graduated from TED and then Middle East Technical University. In the college years, he played basketball as a guard. He studied business administration at METU and then started his career as a marketing expert. After working in different industries for 13 years, he joined Garanti as one of the vice presidents, responsible for marketing again. In 1991, the owner of the bank ( Ayhan Şahenk) offered the position of chief executive officer to Öngör. He ran the company for a decade. Garanti experienced a tough and quite successful metamorphosis process in his period. When Öngör became chief executive officer, Garanti's total market value was around $150 million. And after ten years work, the value had increased to US$5 billion and Garanti was chosen as "The Best Bank on Earth" by Euromoney. The change was so successful that, it became a case study in both Harvard Business School and

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. And that case study is still being lectured to MBA students in these schools. Öngör retired in 2001 to spend time with his wife and family.

References

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