Mesut Sakal

Managing Director – CEE, APAC & Africa 

Mesut joined Kantar Media in 2015 as Managing Director for Turkey, and was appointed CEO for Eastern Europe & Middle East before taking on his current role.  

He previously held a number of senior international management leadership positions and has served in a variety of sales, marketing and line management roles throughout his career. His international assignments have given him the opportunity to live and work in many different countries, managing businesses in a variety of industries and leading teams with diverse educational and cultural backgrounds, before finally settling back in his home country of Turkey.   

Mesut received his Bachelor’s degree in International Business and Management Information Systems from the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University, and he has an MBA from the University of Kansas.