Kordsa
Elif Erdoğan, MSc, EMBA, is a seasoned professional with over 14 years of experience at Kordsa, currently serving as Sales and Marketing Group Manager for Composites EMEA. Elif's expertise includes managing P&L and budgeting, developing sales strategies, overseeing multiple production facilities, and leading market development in the aerospace and defense sectors. Previous roles involved technical sales project leadership and significant contributions to project management and cost reduction initiatives. Elif holds an Executive MBA from Sabanci University, a Master's degree in Polymer Science and Technology from Istanbul Technical University, and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, complemented by executive training at Columbia Business School.
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Kordsa
Kordsa’s success story begins in 1973 with Sabancı Holding’s plant investment in Izmit to produce tire cord fabric for tire manufacturers. Through the years, Kordsa becoming the market leader in Turkey has also achieved a leading position in global markets by a great know-how on reinforcement materials and processes, its market leadership, strong R&D practices, open innovative approach and strategic perspective in the tire reinforcement industry. Kordsa has been globally recognized as “The Reinforcer” thanks to its technology and market leadership, strong global footprint and 49 years of experience in the reinforcement technologies. Kordsa, reshaping the industry with its “The Reinforcer” position and its strong innovative approach, has entered new business fields and has implemented its tire reinforcement know-how into construction reinforcement and composite reinforcement industries. Kordsa, the leader of the reinforcement technologies, has established the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence in Technopark Istanbul in 2014. The center became active in 2016 in cooperation with Sabancı University. In this center, lecturers of Sabancı University, PhD students and Kordsa employees will be working under the same roof. In this cooperative model, which will be a pioneer in Turkey, Kordsa implements and conducts the “open innovation” concept. Currently, over 5000 global employees of Kordsa work to deliver reinforcement technologies to the world.