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Guest Speaker

Cenker Özhelvacı

LL.B., D.D.N., LL.M., LL.D. (candidate -Université de Montréal et Panthéon-Assas)

Cenker has been in the technology space since 2000 and has worked with a variety of sectors like Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, Retail and Logistics. He has an experience of managing Balkans, Turkey and Middle East while working for Experian and has lived in UAE for 2 years working for Al Etihad Credit Bureau based in Dubai. Cenker has built his career around Corporate Sales, Marketing & Communications and Customer Services. He has been responsible for delivering the B2B and B2C sales targets as well as delivering Revenue and EBIT targets.

He has graduated from Middle East Technical University with a degree in Engineering. After working for several multinationals in sales and business development roles, Cenker moved into technology space more than 18 years ago and have established a wide network of senior contacts across banking, telecommunication, insurance and retail sectors. Prior to moving into the technology space, he attended an Executive MBA Program. He has had the opportunity to work for Nortel that have established the network infrastructure of Turkey’s first broadband service provider and also become part of the start-up organization of Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) in Istanbul and took full responsibility of laying the foundations of the sales and marketing teams, as well as the whole channel network.

Cenker is one of the founding members of Ticari ve Finansal Bilgi Derneği (https://www.tfbdernegi.org.tr/) , an association that aims to develop commercial and financial information industry and contributing to the expansion of commercial and financial data usage, collection, storage and processing.

Cenker enjoys adrenaline sports like motor biking and skydiving. He is married and has a son.

Who is

  • First Turkish civil law notary in Canada.
  • Founding Title Attorney since 2009.
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of Notarius TSIN.
  • Part-time professor teaching trust and succession law as to the notarial students of the University of Ottawa, Civil Law Section, at Sherbrooke University.
  • Member of a disciplinary committee at the Chamber of Notaries of Québec (The Committee on Notarial Professional Practice).
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Bar Association, Section Wills, Estate and Trusts.
  • Member of the Membership and Mentoring Committee of Corporate Connections II, for Montréal Chapter.

Practices

  • in succession law -domestic, cross border and international-
  • trust law
  • in non-contentious matters before Notary
  • in real estate law and in mediation/alternate dispute resolution as Family Mediator