Arif Emre Keleş

Arif E. Keleş joined Beko in 2019. As Executive Director of Strategy, he is responsible for corporate strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, transformation programs, and the project management office. He led the development of Beko’s long-term global strategy, contributed to the assessment of growth opportunities across different geographies, and established the Project Delivery Office to accelerate strategic initiatives and create tangible value through business transformation.

During his tenure at Beko, he has coordinated major M&A projects, including the acquisition of Hitachi’s home appliance operations in Asia-Pacific, Whirlpool’s operations in Russia, and Whirlpool’s operations in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. In these projects, he led the strategy, transaction processes, integration, and transformation workstreams.

Before joining Beko, Keleş served as a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, where he led corporate strategy, portfolio assessment, and transformation engagements for Türkiye’s leading conglomerates and industrial companies. He previously worked at Actera Group, one of Türkiye’s largest private equity firms, where he was responsible for evaluating investment opportunities across various sectors, executing acquisitions, and driving value creation and transformation programs within portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, he worked at Abraaj Capital and PwC.

Keleş completed his MBA with a focus on finance and strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in 2010 and received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Koç University in 2005.