Giray Keskin

MANAGING PARTNER

    Giray Keskin is the Founder and Managing Partner of Nizmara Consulting & Executive Search. He specializes in executive search, leadership hiring, and strategic talent advisory across Turkey, the Middle East, and Europe.

    Before founding Nizmara, Giray held commercial and leadership roles at HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Gartner, Michael Page, and Eclit. His background combines sales leadership, technology, consulting, and executive recruitment, giving him a business-driven perspective on senior-level hiring.

    Professional Background

    Giray’s career spans global technology, consulting, and recruitment organizations. He has worked in commercial and leadership roles at HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Gartner, Michael Page, and Eclit before founding Nizmara.

    This cross-sector background shapes his approach to executive search: understanding the business context first, then identifying leaders who can create measurable impact.

    Education

    Education

    BSc Industrial Engineering, Sabancı University
    Career

    Career

    HP, Michael Page, Gartner, HPE, Eclit, Nizmara
    Experience

    Experience

    17+ years across technology, consulting, commercial leadership and executive search

    Areas of Expertise

    Giray supports clients on senior-level hiring mandates across executive search, C-level recruitment, leadership hiring, board search, and international expansion hiring. His work focuses particularly on technology, financial services, commercial leadership, and companies expanding across Turkey, the Middle East, and Europe.

    Executive Search Experience

    Over the last 15+ years, Giray Keskin has advised multinational companies, private equity-backed organisations and fast-growing scale-ups on leadership hiring across Turkey and the Middle East. His work spans executive search mandates covering technology, retail, industrial, engineering and commercial leadership functions.

    Executive Search Specializations

    Giray advises multinational and regional organizations on leadership hiring mandates across executive search, technology, retail, engineering, manufacturing and commercial leadership functions.

    Executive Search in Turkey

    Supporting multinational and local organizations in senior leadership hiring across Turkey.

    Technology Leadership Hiring

    Helping companies identify CTOs, CIOs, CDOs and technology leaders.q

    Retail & Consumer Leadership

    Executive search assignments across retail, e-commerce, consumer goods and commercial leadership functions.

    Manufacturing & Engineering

    Supporting industrial, manufacturing and engineering companies in leadership hiring and succession planning.

    Recent Leadership Insights

    Representative Search Assignments

    Selected examples of executive search assignments across technology, retail, manufacturing and multinational organizations.

    CIO Search

    Global Manufacturing Group

    Global Merchandising Director

    International Retail Brand

    Chief Procurement Officer

    Leading FMCG Organisation

    Chief Sales Officer

    Technology Scale-Up

    Leadership Areas Covered

    Discuss Your Executive Search Requirements

    Looking to hire a senior leader in Turkey? Let’s discuss your leadership hiring objectives and market requirements.