Hüseyin Gelis
Independent Board Member
Hüseyin Gelis studied micro-macro economics at the University of California Berkeley and business administration at the University of Arizona Phoenix and graduated in 1990. He began his career at Siemens’ telecommunications manufacturing plant in 1976 and worked successively in R&D, manufacturing, PBX systems, planning, logistics organization, and strategic purchasing groups. In 2000, Gelis was appointed CFO and Vice President of Siemens India, and in 2005, he was recognized as one of the top 10 CFOs among Fortune 500 companies by “Business Today” magazine. On October 1, 2007, Gelis was appointed Chairman and CEO of Siemens Türkiye. Hüseyin Gelis is responsible for the overall strategic management and leadership of all Siemens activities in Türkiye.
Between 2015 and 2022, Hüseyin Gelis served as the Chairman of TÜSİAD’s Germany Network Working Group and participated in the G20/B20 Turkey Digitalization Working Group in 2015. He was a Board Member of YASED between 2017 and 2019 and Vice Chairman of YASED between 2019 and 2023. In 2018, he signed PWN’s Manifesto of CEOs Supporting Gender Equality and assumed the role of Equality Ambassador. Gelis has been serving as the President of the Berlin Bosphorus Initiative within TÜSİAD since 2018, and he has been a member of the advisory boards at Hacettepe University, Turkish-German University, and Izmir Institute of Technology. Gelis also holds the position of a High Advisory Board Member at Darüşşafaka Society.
On November 28, 2017, Hüseyin Gelis was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of the Republic of Germany for his contributions and the bridge he has built between Türkiye and Germany in the economic, political, and cultural fields.