Nejat Murat Erkan, MBA, PMP, EVM, ITIL, CPCC, ACC, PMIef Liaison

Mr. Erkan started out his career as a business consultant in USA. In the following years, he continued his career in pharmaceutical industry. Initially, he worked as a Project Leader in Health Marketing at GlaxoSmithKline and later on, he worked as a Project Manager in the field of allergy and immunology at Greer Laboratories in North Carolina. After spending 7 years in USA, he moved back to Turkey in 2000. After his return, he continued his career in the telecommunication industry at Vodafone (Telsim) Turkey. In 2005, he started to work at the leading GSM operator Turkcell, as Program Manager and he managed multinational/multi-million dollar Telco/IT projects. In April 2011, he started to work as ICT Key Account Manager for Turkcell Group Companies Best in Belarus and Astelit in Ukraine. Since August 2014, he is working as Turkcell Technology Sales & Marketing Manager.

Mr. Erkan holds a Bachelor of Science degree (BSChE) from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Campbell University, USA. He is a member of Project Management Institute and currently he is serving as the VP of Marketing & PR & Sponsorship and Outreach of PMI Turkey Chapter and he is the College of Performance Management-Global Advisory Committee representative and first PMI EVM certified person in Turkey.

He gained his PMP certification in September 2005. He is keeping his certification valid by volunteering at PMI activities and lecturing at the universities. He is the past president of IPYD (Istanbul Project Management Association) and in the last years he managed the PMI TR PM Summit 2014 Project (which was the largest project management conference ever done in Turkey). He also lectures project management courses at Istanbul Technical University. In August 2014, he gained his CPCC «Certified Professional Co-Active Coach» certificate and coaches professionals.

Mr. Erkan was born in 1970 in Istanbul. He speaks fluent Turkish, English, French and speaks basic Spanish and basic Russian. He believes in “life time learning”.

Attended Congresses as a Speaker: Recovery of Troubled Projects, Dec 10-11, 2015, Casablanca Organised by iCompentences, Morocco

PM Summit PMI TR, Project Management Congress, Sep 19-20, 2014, Istanbul Organised by Project Management Institute Turkey Chapter, Turkey

PMI TR Earned Value Management Seminar, June 20, 2011, Istanbul Organised by Project Management Institute, TR & USA

Project Management Basics Seminar, March 22, 2010, Minsk Organised by Belarusian State Economic University, Minsk, Belarus

Dynamics 2008, 2009, 2010 Project Management Congress, April’08 &09 &10, Istanbul Organised by Istanbul Project Management Association, Istanbul, Turkey

PMI IT & Telco SIG Group 2008 Webinar, August 14, 2008, Canada Organised by Project Management Institute, PA, USA

PMI EMEA 2008 Project Management Congress, May 19-21, 2008, St. Julians, Malta Organised by Project Management Institute, PA, USA