Zeki Pagda

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Area of expertise

Curriculum Vitae

Zeki teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses by combining his 25 years of practical business experience with research and theory, including Management, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, and International Business.

Zeki has work experience in multinational corporate organizations worldwide, including the USA, Germany, China, Egypt, and Turkey. The organizations Zeki worked for include Unilever, Kimberly & Clark, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Henkel, Carl Kuhne, and Nestle. Zeki worked in several departments such as Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain and was an Executive Officer for the last six years of his corporate career. Zeki has also involved in several enterprise-level information technology implementations during his tenure in corporations.

Furthermore, Zeki is a co-founder of a consulting company. His consulting focus is Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning methodologies that, he thinks, will play a significant role in any decision-making process in the future.

Zeki has a Ph.D. degree in Organizational Leadership and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of San Diego. Zeki studied Molecular Biology and Genetics as an undergraduate degree at Bogazici University, Istanbul (Turkey).