Selen Kocabaş started her career in Koç Group as MT and assumed a number of managerial positions in Arçelik, Marshall Boya and Group Danone as well as DanoneSa, a subsidiary of Sabancı. At the end of 2002, she joined Turkcell family as Assistant General Manager. For 13 years, she performed different roles as Assistant to General Manager. After gaining experience in such functions as Human Resources, Construction Real Estate, General Administrative Business, IT, Legal, Purchasing, Strategic Planning, she became the head of Corporate Business at the end of 2010. She managed business under the roof of Marketing, Product, Sales, Service, assuming responsibility for profit and loss and remained in this position for 5 years. She undertook important roles in the story of transforming Turkcell from a GSM operator to a technology and infrastructure corporation. Kocabaş, who left her position in Turkcell Group in May 2015, also assumed various Board Membership roles in this period in the subsidiaries of Turkcell (İnteltek operating under the İddaa trademark, Astelit as the foreign operation, Global Information Call Center and Turkcell Teknoloji).

Kocabaş is the first Chairwoman of Peryön People Management Association, the oldest non-governmental organization in Türkiye, the first corporate founding member of Ethics and Reputation Society in representation of the company and a member of TKYD and TÜSİAD. She is the Founding Board Member of the Women on Board Association and Yeniden Biz Association, Founding Member of Woman in Technology Association, member and mentor of the Endeavor Advisory Board. She ranked the 9^th in the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list of the Fortune Magazine in 2014.

She offers Strategic Business Consultancy and Mentorship Services to Governing Boards and Company Management Teams. She is one of the Founding Business Partners of Mentoro Platform since 2015. From 2016 on and for 3 consecutive terms, she held the position of Independent Board Member in Akiş GYO, a company under the roof of Akkök Holding, presided the Risk Committee and was a Member of the Audit Committee. Currently, she is an Independent Board Member of Tekfen Holding, a Board Member of MultinetUP Group, and a Board Member of Aydın Group and English Home and Eve Consulting.

Powered by her experience of over 30 years, Selen Kocabaş is a leader in the fields of business development, people management and strategy. Born in 1968 in İstanbul, Kocabaş graduated from Istanbul University Department of Economics, offering education in English. She had her master’s degree in Marmara University in the field of People Management and Organizational Behavior. She completed Executive Education Corporate Strategy Program at Harvard University. She is married with a son of 26. She speaks English and French.