Emre Gürsoy
Running companies with passion and purpuse, powering them with profit

Emre Gürsoy has been working in the fields of management, business advisory, creative business services, innovation, brand consultancy, technology and board memberships for over 30 years. Currently, Emre Gürsoy is the CEO of Agillic, a global marketing technology company, headquartered in Copenhagen and listed in Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Denmark. Since he has joined Agillic in March 2020, he brought in his experience in life, and delivered a strong financial turn around and growth performance during the challenging pandemic times of 2020 and 2021.

Throughout his career, Emre Gürsoy has been operating at the intersection of technology, data and creativity to scale and grow high-performing technology driven companies across in Europe, US and Asia while delivering strong P&L results in various C-level roles.

Emre Gürsoy holds an MBA and degree in Mechanical Engineer. He attributes his success to his tenacious pragmatism and persistent attention to continuous growth. He possesses an in-depth understanding of cultural differences and business applications. Born and raised in Istanbul, Emre Gürsoys studies and international career path has taken him all over the world. During his career, he has lived and/or worked in Europe, North America and Asia. He currently resides in Copenhagen Denmark with his wife and three daughters.

Embracing change and transformation

Some call it the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” others the “Transformation era”. In today’s highly connected world, marginal and/or incremental improvement is not enough for organizations to stay ahead of their competition. Winning requires continuous transformation.

Technology driven disruption vs. transformation

Transformation can be more difficult than technology driven disruption. Disrupters are often entrepreneurial start-ups, creative thinkers playing offense without worrying about protecting any organizational heritage. By contrast, transformation in an established enterprise with an asset base and capital requirements calls for a strong defense as well as an aggressive offense.

Leadership

Succeeding in the Fourth Industrial Revolution requires authentic leadership, unquestionable trust, and genuine transparency – all rooted in a visionary purpose, customer centric strategy and a strong brand platform. Leaders capable of eliminating complexity, establishing simple, consistent and customer experience oriented solutions are the drivers of today’s successful team leads.

Operational excellence

As they say, “Practices are only as good as the people implementing them”. Organizations mobilizing the implementation plans by empowerment, agile structures, culture of continuous learning and results orientation have a much greater chance of accelerating their performance.