Defne Saral
Currently Defne is the business leader for the commercial and technology offering of DuPont Industrial Biosciences (IB) to the personal care and cosmetics industry. She is part of the commercial industry leadership team, has responsibility for profit & loss and leads the global personal care team. She has 22 years of experience in global companies across a variety of industries.
Defne joined DuPont in 2005 after her MBA and has held commercial roles in marketing, sales, product management and business development. She has worked in specialty materials and ingredients for the fire fighting industry, textiles, paints & coatings, automotive, construction and retail. Prior to personal care, she was leading the food enzymes unit of IB developing offerings to improve freshness, optimize production, add texture, ensure quality consistency and reduce waste, water and energy consumption.
Prior to DuPont, she worked for 7 years at Philip Morris International, starting in Operations for Eastern Europe integrating acquisitions, moving to M&A, was Marlboro brand manager for Switzerland and head of strategic planning for the worldwide duty free unit.
Defne holds an MBA from IMD, Switzerland and a Bachelor in Systems Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She was born in the US, is of Turkish origin, and is a Swiss citizen.
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Yankin Tanurhan
Dr. Yankin Tanurhan is Vice President of Engineering for DesignWare Processor Cores, IP Subsystems and Non-Volatile Memory, Security and SoC Design at Synopsys. He leads the low power and high performance ARC and EV embedded Processor developments targeted from Mobile, IoT, Embedded Vision, Digital Home, Automotive/Industrial, Security to Storage markets, ASIP tool development with products like ASIP Designer and Programmer, IP Subsystems products like Sensor Fusion, Audio, Vision and Security Subsystems and CMOS based Non Volatile IP development. Before joining Synopsys, Dr. Tanurhan was Vice President and General Manager of Virage Logic's Processors, SoC Infrastructure and NVM Solutions business units. Virage Logic was acquired by Synopsys in September 2010. Prior to this, Dr. Tanurhan served as Vice President of Actel's Advanced Applications and System Solutions, where he lead Actel's new architecture design, IP and MPU business units, system and hardware tools and product validation departments. He was also responsible for leading Actel's embedded FPGA, embedded processor and DSP activities.
Previously in his research career he served as the director of the department of electronic systems and microsystems of FZI (Forschungszentrum Informatik) a German contract research institute attached to the University of Karlsruhe. Dr. Tanurhan has authored more than 100 papers in refereed publications. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rheinisch Westfaellische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany and a Dr. Ing. degree summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
