Sport Group Holding
Kadir Songur has a diverse work experience, starting with their current role as the Global Head of Lean Management at Sport Group Holding since February 2022. Prior to this, they served as the General Manager Operations at seiseki consulting GmbH starting from October 2018. Kadir was also a Corporate Management Partner and Inhouse Consultant at Deutsche Bahn from October 2017 to September 2020. Before that, Kadir worked as an Opex/Lean Manager at Crane ChemPharma & Energy from April 2016 to September 2017. Kadir also served as a Produktionssteuerung und -optimierung at SCHORCH Elektrische Maschinen und Antriebe from May 2013 to March 2016. Their professional journey began with a Berufsausbildung zum Bürokaufmann at Vostex VSH GmbH & Co. KG Garne, starting in September 2003 and ending in July 2006.
Kadir Songur has pursued Industrial Engineering at Hochschule Niederrhein.
Sport Group Holding
Sport Group is the world’s largest and greenest business dedicated to sport surfaces. The Group provides synthetic turf sport fields, athletic tracks, courts and recreation areas in over 70 countries, and uniquely covers the complete value chain, including R&D, chemicals, manufacturing and installation. With headquarters in Burgheim, Germany, the Group’s corporate brands include Polytan, AstroTurf, Melos, APT and SYNLawn, and world-leading global product brands such as LigaTurf (football turf), Poligras (hockey turf), Rekortan (tracks) and Laykold (courts). Notable recent projects include tennis courts for the US Open, hockey turf for Paris 2024, soccer turf for Bayern Munich, American football turf for University of Washington and baseball turf for the Toronto Blue Jays. Sport Group is committed to green technology and has received an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Risk Rating Score of 12.7 from Sustainalytics. This places Sport Group in the top 6% of companies globally. Sport Group’s strength is sustainable products and services, for example LigaTurf Cross GT zero, is the world’s first carbon neutral football turf, and Poligras Paris GT zero, is hockey’s first carbon zero hockey turf and has been chosen for the Paris Olympics