Yasar Yilmaz

Yasar is a digital transformation strategist specialized in financial services industry with 25+ years of experience spanning across Turkey, Eastern Europe, Israel, Middle East and Africa. He is a design thinking led innovation practitioner and a blockchain enthusiast. Throughout many technology led reimagined business process improvement engagements for financial services industry customers along his career at PwC, Oracle, SunGard-FIS, Capgemini, SAP and Microsoft, Yasar has been striving to help the C-suite members craft strategic value realization roadmaps for their business renovation pursuits.

Yasar is currently busy with helping financial services institutions drive value out of the convergence of key transformational technologies that are Data / Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Process Automation, Internet of Things, Blockchain, Cloud Platforms, Open Banking / Insurance and Low Code Development. He leads Microsoft's largest industry by revenue contribution, FSI, and oversees strategic partnerships with ISVs, SIs, and Strategic Management Consulting Companies; learning and development of the FSI sales organization; definition and deployment of market strategy on an ongoing basis with local / regional / global stakeholders of Microsoft; envisioning and execution of large strategic transformational sales opportunities, 'big bets', for accelerating cloud adoption across MEA.

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