Team

Dr. Suat Genç

Dr. Suat Genç is the founder and CEO of the School, who have more than 25 years of experience in the field of technology and innovation as a researcher, faculty member, engineer, consultant, and C-Level executive.

Dr. Genç is also currently a part-time faculty member at Boğaziçi University and Board Member at Gebze Technical University Technopark in Turkey.

Up until recently, Dr. Genç served for 4 years as General Manager of BMC Power Company, developing Power-Packs (Engine, Transmission and Cooling Systems) for both military and commercial vehicles (e.g., Altay Main Battle Tank and Armored Vehicles).

Prior to these appointments, Dr. Genç was Vice President for 8 years at MAM and BİLGEM Research Centers of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).

His responsibilities were methodology development for Strategy and Technology Management as well as developing new business models to transfer available technologies to industrial companies.

Dr. Genç served for 7 years as Product Development Coordinator at Turkish Institute for Industrial Management (TUSSIDE/TUBITAK), where he found the opportunity to provide professional R&D training and certification programs as well as consultation services to more than 500 companies.

Dr. Genç also worked for 5 years as a Senior Systems Development Engineer for Plug Power Fuel Cell Company (General Electric) in New York, where he was responsible for a wide range of technology and system development activities.

Dr. Genç received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey), and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York, USA).

Team Members

The School Team was formed by world-class experts possessing highly competitive backgrounds in technology development and innovation.

A typical expert on our team has an average 25 years of industrial experience in global organizations as a scientist, technical specialist or top level executive: and academic experience in world-leading institutes as a researcher or an instructor.

All team members have outstanding communication skills, teaching capabilities as well as consuting talents.

The School has a very wide network of experts and organizations to cooperate in research, training, and consultation projects undertakes, when needed.