Ismail Sarpel - Vestel Elektronik General Manager, Executive Committee Member

Mr. Ismail Murat Sarpel has served as General Manager, Executive Committee Member of Vestel Electronics Industry and Trade Corporation since 2017. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University in 1990 and completed a Masters degree in the same department in 1993. Mr. Sarpel started his career at Vestel Group in 1990. He worked on TV design projects and served as a TV Design Engineer and TV Project Manager at Vestel Elektronik between 1990 and 1997. Mr. Sarpel, who worked as the Design Group Manager in Information Technologies between 1997 and 1998, was assigned to establish Vestel USA, and was also involved in Information Technologies operations in Silicon Valley in 1998. Until 2001, he served as the RD Director and General Manager at Vestel USA. After returning to Turkey in 2001, Mr. Sarpel established the RD Department at Vestel Komunikasyon, which was Turkeys first RD department to work on digital media projects, where he served as the Deputy General Manager. In 2005, he was appointed as the General Manager of Vestel Komunikasyon and served in this position for a year and a half. Mr. Sarpel became the General Manager in Charge of the Electronics RD Department at Vestel Group of Companies in 2007. Mr. Murat Sarpel was appointed as the General Manager of Vestel Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS in 2017 and became responsible for all operations, including planning, logistics and procurement in addition to RD. since 2017.