Yonca Dervişoğlu

Yonca Dervisoglu is a Turkish businesswoman based in London and Google’s Vice President of Marketing, Europe, Middle East and Africa. She holds a number of board positions and previously worked for Unilever and Yahoo!. She has been a driving force behind Grow with Google, an initiative which has trained more than ten million people to date across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in digital skills. She also co-founded Google Arts & Culture.
== Career ==
Dervisoglu started her career at Kale Group in Turkey, where she worked for a year, after they provided a scholarship for her Master’s Degree. She worked for Unilever for nine years before joining Yahoo!. In 2006, she was recruited to Google by Lorraine Twohill, where she is currently Vice President of Marketing, Europe, Middle East and Africa. She is the Executive Sponsor for Google Zeitgeist in EMEA . In 2009, Dervisoglu co-founded the Google Cultural Institute, what later became Google Arts & Culture, with Amit Sood, who leads the initiative. With Matt Brittin, she is also a co founder of Grow with Google, an initiative which has trained more than 14 million people to date across EMEA and 70 million worldwide in digital skills.
== Boards ==
Dervisoglu sits on the Natural History Museum’s Digital Advisory Board and the Board of AccelerateHer, of the Founders Forum. She previously held board roles at Heineken and Tech City UK, and from 2013-2015 she was on the committee of The Prince’s Trust Women’s Leadership Group. She is a Fellow and former board member of the Marketing Society and a global leadership council member of the Brookings Institution.
 
== Personal life ==
Dervisoglu was born in Istanbul, and lived in San Francisco for part of her childhood while her father, Prof Dr Ahmet Dervişoğlu, worked as a professor at University of California, Berkeley{{cite book |last1=Cüceloğlu |first1=Dogan |title=The mind of DERVİŞ: Conversations with Prof. Ahmet Dervişoğl|date=2016 |publisher=Remzi Kitabevi |location=Istanbul, Turkey |isbn=978-975-14-1721-3. She has a BA in Business Administration from Istanbul University and a MA in International Business from Ohio State University. Dervisoglu calls London home: she has lived there for 22 years and now resides there with her two daughters. She is an art enthusiast, a member of the Innovation Circle of the Serpentine Galleries, claims to be an expert on red apples and has a closet of Burning Man attire.
==In the media==
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== References ==
==External links==
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* Yonca Dervisoglu on linkedin
* Yonca Dervisoglu — Inspiring Fifty: United Kingdom
* Welcoming Yonca Dervisoglu: CMO for Google - Emanuel
* HotTopics.ht - Yonca Dervisoglu Brunini, CMO of Google
* Yonca Dervişoğlu - Speakers for Schools
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