November 2021
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Süleyman Muratoğlu is co-founder of Çınar. His professional experience is in building commercial capabilities, business turnarounds, operations, and opening new markets in manufacturing / consumer products industries. He served private, Fortune 500 public and private equity companies in packaging and food processing industries for over 25 years internationally.
He joined Tetra Pak in 1994 in Turkey, established market operating entities and help set up food and beverage plants with local or global brand ownerships in Central Asia. In North America, managed Tetra Pak contract manufacturing business, a network of 20+ companies in aseptic food processing and packaging, sales and product marketing.
Süleyman joined Owens Illinois, a global leader in glass packaging, in 2015 as Chief Commercial Officer to lead organization’s evolution to become market driven and customer-centric. The team were able to rapidly stabilize the base business and return to growth through concerted effort across supply chain, procurement, manufacturing and sales and marketing.
Most recently as its CEO, he led a private equity backed a North American dry food contract manufacturing business in Chicago.
Süleyman holds a BS degree in Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Business in Chicago.
Nejat Çalışkan, Co-Founder of Çınar, has over 25 years of professional experience in food & beverage processing and packaging industry in various markets in Europe and Asia. Prior to co-founding Çınar in 2021, he served as Managing Director of Tetra Pak in Vietnam, following his service as Managing Director in Turkey & Caucasus between 2014-2019.
Nejat joined Tetra Pak in 1995 and held various commercial leadership roles in new market entry, customer management, business development and innovation deployment in Turkey, Pakistan and South-East Asia. He has senior management experience in setting up systems, structures, processes in new markets. He devised the global marketing plan for core segment of the company’s business, working with seven proxy markets from around the globe.
Nejat started his career as a foreign trading executive in 1987, trading construction commodities across Europe, Middle & Far East.
He served in the Boards of Swedish Chambers of Commerce (SCCT) and Packaging Recovery Organizations (PROV) in Turkey and Vietnam.
Nejat holds B.S degree in Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and MBA from Radford University in Virginia.
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