Burak Tansan
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Istanbul
Burak Tansan is the managing partner of The Boston Consulting Group in Turkey, having rejoined BCG in 2010 to establish the Istanbul office. He is a core member of BCG’s Financial Institutions, Insurance, and Strategy practices, and he leads the Globalization practice in Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
Burak has senior-level experience across multiple industries, with a specific focus on banking, insurance, consumer and retail, industrial goods, and conglomerates. His client experience has covered large-scale transformation and postmerger integration programs for Turkish and multinational companies, governance and organizational model redesign for leading conglomerates, and numerous portfolio assessments.
Prior to opening BCG’s Istanbul office, Burak was the executive vice president in charge of strategy and corporate communications at Akbank. He has also held board membership positions at two major Turkish companies.
Global challengers are providing exciting new models for others to follow.
Even the most powerful traditional competitors need to develop digital strategies and capabilities.
Digital capabilities put many global challengers in a strong position to challenge developed-market companies for leadership.
The economic future in emerging markets looks increasingly digital.
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The economies of emerging markets may have paused, but their strongest companies have not. The global challengers are doing just fine.
