About Gulru Atak

Gulru Atak is a seasoned leader with extensive experience in innovation, strategy and business development, product development, sales & client relations, and business management in institutional banking, specialized in business and technology innovation, transaction banking from payments to trade finance. Her superpowers are: 1- Change leadership: building new teams & organizations, restructuring and re-energizing organizations. 2- Building sustainable, strategic & impactful partnerships: To survive and thrive in such a rapidly changing world, collaboration will be the greatest enabler. 3- Establishing and executing strategies as a response to evolving trends. Innovation has been her passion for more than a decade, and Gulru  pivoted her career towards this passion five years ago, making it her profession. She is particularly interested and strong in leveraging emerging technologies to build new business models, to design superior client experience, and to achieve operational excellence. Gulru has led and contributed to various initiatives, turning concepts into solutions. A few examples are digital cash management solutions for start-ups, central bank digital currency pilots, smart contract negotiation, payment outlier detection, and distributed ledger technology implementation in trade finance. Gulru Atak gets her energy from people—her team, her colleagues, her family, and friends. Always willing to connect, listen, give and take coaching, and think & create together.