Barış Karakullukçu started as a junior consultant and rose to partner at two of the world’s largest consulting firms. She has twice served as CEO of leading Turkish companies, twice chaired subsidiaries of one of Türkiye’s largest financial groups, and held executive roles at Turkcell and Türk Telekom, where she led strategy and digital transformation through the pandemic. She has been named three times among Türkiye’s 50 most powerful businesswomen and four times among its most powerful women CEOs. Today she chairs Türkiye’s AI and Technology Association and TÜBİSAD’s AI Committee, serves on corporate boards and mentors young founders. She lives in Istanbul with her husband and two sons.