Marketing and Business Development Director, RGS Group
Istanbul, Turkey
Living in the dynamic city of Istanbul, Linda has served as Managing Director of two Merchandising and Promotions agencies – Creative IQ and IMSG Turkey - providing projects and consulting expertise to local and international blue-chip consumer products companies. Throughout her thirteen years in Turkey she has worked with clients such as Bosch, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, EFES PILSEN, Lever, MARSA Kraft Foods, Seagram, Smirnoff, Pernod-Ricard, SmithKline Beecham, Türkpetrol, and Lever/Unilever. When she first met GLOALTEAM, Linda was serving as an IESC/USAID Consultant to the retail merchandising department of Anadolu Group.
As a Director of GLOBALTEAM International Marketing Consultants, Linda managed a major GLOBALTEAM merchandising design and implementation project for ULKER, Turkey. In 2004-2006 she was part of the GLOBALTEAM group responsible for implementing Red Bull merchandising standards in the UK and UAE, training their field sales and merchandising staff in both On- and Off-Premise Trade Channels. Other assignments have taken her to such diverse places as France, Romania, Kazakhstan, and Cape Verde in Africa. She continues to enjoy her role with GLOBALTEAM, serving as an ad hoc Director/Consultant for projects requiring specialized expertise.
Linda recently took on a new challenge and and is applying her marketing and operational team management skills as Marketing and Business Development Director for RGS Group. RGS Group provides outsourced security, cleaning, and payroll services for a wide range of clients, including all of the major holding companies in Turkey.
She also consults for Mobilgi Systems Inc., a Turkish IT company that provides automated sales point information systems for clients in the FMCG, pharmacy, banking, and market research sectors.
With more than twenty years of business experience in the US and internationally, Linda is frequently asked to speak at business forums and to academic classes. In 1998 she was profiled in 'Kariyer Dünyasi' (Career World) magazine, and ‘Platin’ (Platinum) magazine. In August 2001 she appeared on a TRT2 television panel as a leading foreign businesswoman in Turkey. From 2002-2004 Linda was a guest lecturer at Istanbul Technical University Graduate School of Business, teaching marketing and merchandising. She is a member of the Propeller Club of Istanbul and the British Business Networking Club.
Linda holds an M.B.A. from the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.