Uğur Karakaya

Head of Management Consultancy, Partner

KPMG Türkiye

Uğur Karakaya began his career as a software engineer in the Turkey team of Netscape, a pioneer in technology services and innovation worldwide. Later, he worked as a director at Meteksan System within Bilkent Holding, where he took part in the strategy, process, planning, design, and development stages of many fundamental e-government projects, including Mernis, the Identity Sharing System (KPS), the Address Information System, the E-Government Gateway (turkiye.gov.tr), E-Maliye, and the New Identity Cards and Passports, between 2000 and 2007.

From 2007 to 2019, he held senior positions at Oracle, Teradata, and Accenture, leading teams to complete numerous consultancy and transformation projects for major telecom, finance, insurance, and holding companies in the private sector. His main areas of expertise include strategic leadership in transformation and consultancy for telecom, banking, public sector, and consumer (B2C) enterprises, as well as business and digital transformation strategy and implementation, senior management consultancy, and program management.

Uğur, who has been a corporate partner of alphaform since 2022, will assume leadership of the Management Consultancy (MC) department at KPMG Turkey as of October 1, 2024, and will join the Management Team.

  • B.S. Physics Engineering Hacettepe University

  • Software Engineering Program Middle East Technical University

  • Executive Management Program Singularity University

  • Technology and Business Trasformation and Enterprise Architecture Design,

  • Cloud Migration Strategy

  • DC Migration, and Data. Business and Digital Transformation Strategy and Execution

  • Comprehensive Enterprise Architecture