Mustafa Gültepe (born 1968 in Tonya,
Trabzon
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) is the current President of
Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Istanbul Ready-to-Wear and Apparel Exporters' Association (İHKİB)(in Turkish: İstanbul Hazır Giyim ve Konfeksiyon İhracatçıları Birliği ), and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the
Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK).
Career
Gültepe graduated from Dokuz Eylul University
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...
Department in 1990 and obtained his master's degree from
Istanbul University
Istanbul University, also known as University of Istanbul (), is a Public university, public research university located in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Mehmed II on May 30, 1453, a day after Fall of Constantinople, the conquest of Constantinop ...
in 1997.
He joined the textile industry in 1992 with Taha Tekstil and became a founding partner and the chairman of the board of Talu Tekstil AŞ, which was established in 1994 as a subordinate of Taha Group.
Gültepe joined the management board of İHKİB in 2006 and served as the Vice Chairman of the Board between 2014 and 2018 and became the Chairman of İHKİB in the elections held in April 2018. He was elected as the consensus chairman of the board of directors at the 29th Ordinary General Assembly of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) held on 13 June 2022, winning all valid 273 votes of the 274 votes cast, an event attended by President
Erdogan. He was also the Chairman of Sakarya 1st Organized Industrial Zone from 2017 to 2021.
Gültepe employs over 3,000 people through his textile production facilities in Istanbul, Sakarya and Malatya. He is married and has three children. He speaks English fluently.
References
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1968 births
Living people
21st-century Turkish businesspeople
Turkish industrialists
Istanbul University alumni