Işınsu Kestelli

Işınsu Kestelli began her professional career as an assistant at Raks Foreign Trade. She then gained experience at a textile dye company affiliated with DYO and worked as the General Manager’s assistant at Turyağ. Rising from entry-level positions to the directorship of the department she worked in, she joined the Istanbul team during the Turkish Henkel – Turyağ merger. Later, Kestelli founded the company Agritrade. In 2007, she was elected Chair of the Board of the Futures and Options Exchange (VOB), and in 2009, Chair of the Board of the Izmir Commodity Exchange (İTB). In addition to being Turkey’s first female Exchange Chair, she also became the first female Board Member in the most recent elections of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB). Kestelli has also contributed to social responsibility projects, among which the nationally exemplary “My Mother Beat Cancer” project stands out. Through this sustainable and measurable initiative, she continues to touch the lives of thousands of women across Turkey.