"I met Management Centre Turkey (MCT) in 1998 when I was working at Ticket Restaurant, now renamed Edenred. Turkey's largest and longest running Human Resources Summit, which was in its early years at the time, and which is now over 30 years old, was the occasion for this meeting. MCT Founder Mr. Dr. Alper Utku and I had many pleasant, sometimes sweet, and contentious memories both while working at Ticket Restaurant and when we founded Multinet. Later, while working at Konica Minolta, we had the honour of being neighbours in the same building with the MCT team for 3 years. Throughout all these years, MCT has remained in my memory as a pioneering, visionary institution that always invests in quality human resources and where people who do business with pleasure, enjoyment and as if they were doing their hobbies are together. I guess my life motto has always been the same since I was little. Those who do, not those who know, win. MCT is a place where those who know best are chosen from among those who know best, and who endeavour to do what they know in the most perfect way, and those who succeed in showing what they do to the world in the right way. It is one of the leading organisations of change and transformation in our country and even in the world. MCT is the name of a team that takes current and fashionable concepts such as change, transformation, agility, and sustainability from the conceptual level to the vital level first within itself, and then takes it upon itself to take the organisations it serves to that level. It is exciting to be a part of that team after a quarter of a century since we met. I hope that my MCT story will also be inspiring and memorable."
Ejder Ormancı graduated from Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science & International Relations. He completed his master’s degree in international business administration at Marmara University, master’s degree in business management at Istanbul Commerce University and PhD in Business Management at Yıldız Technical University.
He started his career as a stationery businessman in the summer months of high school years, and during his university years, he worked as a textile trader, as a private course instructor and organiser, business manager in the entertainment sector, and producer representative in the TV production sector. In the post-university period, he continued his professional career as a Customer Representative at Cenajans Grey, the largest Advertising Agency of those years, Key Accounts Manager at the Turkiye office of Ticket Restaurant (Edenred), which first introduced the idea of food vouchers to the world, and Sales and Marketing Director as one of the two founders of Multinet, one of the first companies in the same sector in the world to make transactions with chip smart cards in Turkiye. During the Konica & Minolta merger in the world, he worked as Assistant General Manager in charge of Marketing and Sales in companies representing these brands operating in the field of documentation technologies in Turkiye, and he worked as the Founding General Manager, Shareholder and Board Member of WinWin, which provides services with mobile payment system for the first time in the world in the corporate payment systems sector. Together with WinWin, he supported the establishment of the Global Payment system, which was the first mobile payment system to provide bank and mobile phone independent services at that time. He founded İstegelsin, which today operates as a door-to-door electronic market under Yıldız Holding, as a multi-category e-commerce site and led the team that brought the brand to the 4th largest capacity among the e-commerce sites operating in Turkiye in two years. In 2008, he established a change management consultancy company and provided consultancy services to leading organisations in Turkiye in areas such as Strategic Management, Business Development, Corporate Communications, Marketing & Sales, Public Relations & Publicity, Customer Relations, International Relations, Public Relations, Change, Transformation, Agility, Innovation and Sustainability Management. During this period, he carried out consultancy projects in many different sectors and especially in some companies operating in the Public Transport Sector and worked as Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Governance Advisor to the Executive and Board of Directors. He worked as Chief Advisor to the General Manager at Kayseri Transport A.Ş. and IETT, a subsidiary of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, operating in the public transport sector. Between 2018 - 2020, he worked as the Founding Donation Management Director at the Turkish Red Crescent.
He is currently working as a Change Leader at DNO Change Training Communication Management Consultancy Services, of which he is the founder; Executive Board Member at GMO Business Consultancy, which operates in the UK in the field of financial management consultancy and sustainability projects, and as a Strategy and Business Development Consultant in MENA countries at PARABOL, which actively works for more sustainable, safe and accessible mobility in 50+ cities in 11 countries around the world. He also carries out project-based studies and undertakes tasks as Business Partner & Consultant in various businesses operating in the field of digital marketing, financial technologies, payment methods, e-commerce, retail.
In 2022, he gave lectures on "Organisational Behaviour" and "Event Management" as a Guest Lecturer at Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Art and Design.
He is married and has three children.
For some time, he has been carrying out studies focused on business and strategy development in the MENA Region and the Commonwealth of Independent States Countries abroad and in Turkiye as triggered by those countries, and as an academician, he endeavours to convey his academic and real sector-based experiences to young people in various universities in Turkiye and abroad. He writes columns in various sectoral newspapers and subject-oriented magazines published weekly and monthly and writes regularly on LinkedIn every day. He continues to work on two separate book preparations. He has ongoing studies in the fields of history, politics, philosophy of change, sustainable and agile transformation leadership. He lives and works mainly abroad and partly in Turkiye.
