Who is our Founder Doğan Gürbüz?
Founder of our company, Doğan Gürbüz was born in 1951 in Istanbul. He graduated from the Chemical Engineering Department of İ.D.M.M.A. Galatasaray Mühendislik Fakültesi which is called as Yıldız Technical University today.
After that he took step into his business life and therewithal finished the 48th period of Business Administration Programme at the faculty of Management,University of Istanbul.
During his undergraduate years he was interested in music and scouting.He was quite good at playing guitar as well as became the founder of Yavuz İzci Group (1970) that operates under the umbrella of Scouting Federation.In addition he obtained an International Wood Badge in those years .He is married and has two children today.
Upon his demobilization as a reserve officer from the armed forces in 1977 he took step into his profession at Aysan Agaç Yağları San A.Ş. company that used to operate under the umbrella of Marshall Boya Grubu in the position of Shift Engineer.
He subsequently began to work for Aksa Akrilik Kimya A.Ş. in september, 1977. Then he respectively was appointed to the below positions at Aksa company.
- 1977-Engineer in Charge of Dope and Solvent Recovery Units ,
- 1978-Assistant of Enterprise Chief, in charge of Polimerization,Dope and
- Solvent Units,
- 1981-Assistant of Enterprise Headmaster,
- 1992-Headmaster of Process,
- 2000-Headmaster of Utility Services,
- 2003-Headmaster of Utility Services and Harbor Master
In the period of 1983-2000 he additionally took office in the position of Start-up Chairmanship in which he was responsible for the activation of the new euipments and installations ,handing over the system to the operating departments properly by solving the prospective problems steaming from the new installations and equipments.
As a person who has taken place at the any stage of the processes at Aksa Kimya which is in the status of being both the largest acrylic fiber manufacturer of the world and the biggest acyrlic facility gathered under a single roof enabled him to get experienced extensively and conversant regarding the processes of acrylic fiber and polymer manufacturing as well as the main and ancillary processes of these products’manufacturing.In consequence of his appointments that he had carried out ,he remained much experienced in the fields of chemical and mechanical processes, utility processes, start-up operations, production and process rooted problems’ solving,energy saving, cost reduction, productivity enhancement and operational management.
During his working periods he carried out both Chairmanship and Membership in various teams that were responsible for problem solving,cost reduction,savings and productivity enhancement,ISO-9000,ISO-14000 Code Sytems’ instructions.
In his professional business life he attended to various intracompany and exterior trainings some of which are stated below;
- Management,
- Human Relations,
- Technical Subjects,
- Process Controlling,
- Total Quality Management,
- Process Management,
- 6 Sigma,
- MBO(Management by Objectives),
- Performance Management,
- ISO-9001/14000
- Environmental Trainings,
- Computer ,
- Self-assessment Training,
- Technical Security and Labor Safety,
- Interview Techniques,
- Managerial Grid Training,
- ISPS Code,
- NLP,etc.
Immediately after his retirement in January 2015 he decided to found PROSES T.I.M.company at which he currently carries out his own business .
