Ebru Tuygun

GVGL, Managing Director & IWBD Founder & Chairwoman

Ebru led marketing, communications, and branding for about 20 years in global consulting firms like Deloitte and Accenture. influenced various country agenda items like diversity & inclusion and sustainability initiatives covering regions like Growth Markets (Australia, Latin America, Japan, China, Philippines, India, Middle East, Africa, Russia, Turkey) and Europe.

She has been selected to participate in the CMO Accelerator Program at the Cannes Lions Creativity Festival for five consecutive times. She is listed as one of the top 50 CMOs in Turkey, awarded one of the Middle East's female leaders by Women Leadership Congress, and a winner of the Women in Martech Vibe Awards. Ebru is listed as “Asia’s 100 Women Power Leaders 2023”. She was also named "Wonder Women of MENA" by Brandberries. She is ranked among "Top 10 CMOs in Dubai" by Women Entrepreneur India Magazine.

Ebru has diverse experience in marketing and communications specialized in business transformation, digitalization, strategic marketing, branding, public relations, brand management, corporate communications and executive profiling. She is the founding CEO of GVGL Global Marketing Management Company and serves marketing strategy, go to market growth plans, employer branding and DEI marketing plans across EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Americas.

Ebru is one of the founding members of the “Women Board of Directors” in Turkey. She enabled support for WEConnect International (supporting women entrepreneurs to connect with global companies) to be founded in Turkey and grow. Ebru supports Women20 (W20) part of G20, whose main aim is to increase women empowerment and led her company’s W20 knowledge partnership and enabled it to produce ‘W20 policy papers’ under Turkey and Saudi G20 leadership. Ebru is the Founder and Chairwoman of IWBD (International Women Board of Directors) and has been invited to numerous Global Women organizations including Global Women Leadership Summit in Florida, US and shares her passion to grow women leaders in the boardrooms. Ebru is a board member in Marketing Society where around 500 CMOs and brand decision makers in the Middle East are members of. Ebru is married and lives in Dubai for about 8 years.

Ebru studied Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University. She has Management and Leadership Excellence certificates from Harvard Business School. She was selected for the program, ‘High Potential Women Leaders’ of Stanford University Graduate School of Executive Education.


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