Ozge Kurtoglu is a senior commercial executive with expertise in global transformation, commercial excellence, international expansion, growth, monetization and digital transformation from her 24 years’ experience in B2B industries (automotive, manufacturing, life sciences, pharma and MedTech, Software & AI, education, consulting) across four continents (Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia).
Currently Kurtoglu leads the Commercial Excellence function globally for $36bn Honeywell Corporation. As an experienced corporate executive, advisor and board member Kurtoglu most recently led Tenneco DRiV’s, a $3.2bn division of $18B Tenneco, a Tier 1 leading global supplier of automotive replacement parts, transformation to a category and brand focused profitable growth engine through commercial excellence, pricing strategy and digital transformation. Kurtoglu’s career spanned numerous years at Fortune 500 B2B and B2B2C companies. Pre- Tenneco Kurtoglu was with Pearson, the world’s learning company with $5bn in revenues, where she built the Revenue Management and Strategic Partnership capability leading a global team responsible for key pricing, bundling, and monetization strategies in support of Pearson’s digital transformation. Mrs. Kurtoglu joined Pearson from General Electric where she was the Senior Director of Global Marketing and Commercial Excellence for GE Healthcare, a $20 bn business unit of General Electric where she helped build the emerging markets headquarter Eastern & African Growth Markets. Kurtoglu’s pre-GE career spans 10 years in technology P&L management, marketing, commercial excellence and consulting through roles at Microsoft, IBM Business Consulting Services and PwC Consulting.
A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Mrs. Kurtoglu holds an MBA degree in Marketing and Finance from the Wharton Business School and an AB degree in Economics from Harvard University.