Erol Erturk

As the Vice President of Research and Development for D&K Engineering, Erol Erturk is responsible for leading the company’s engineering function. His teams are responsible for managing and delivering projects in all phases of development from early feasibility through engineering design, prototyping, verification, and finally to manufacturing release. The engineering function includes hardware, software, systems, and test engineers as well as program managers who are not only highly skilled but also completely passionate about what they do.

Erol has had an extensive career generating new technologies, developing solutions and commercializing products. Prior to coming to D&K Erol worked at Hewlett Packard for 26 years in various technical and management roles. At HP, he successfully commercialized a number of print cartridge consumables as well as printing systems for consumer, small office, enterprise and commercial market segments. Erol was also the Director of Product Development for Metallic Power, a zinc-regenerative fuel cell start-up venture.

Erol holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on control systems and an MBA with emphasis on operations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.