Serhat Yılmaz who is graduated from the Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics, and is the founder of the Akvia Group, Kompass Limited and Semy Brothers companies, and currently continues his duty as a managing partner in these companies.
He has worked as a senior manager in the administrative affairs, human resources, logistics and international purchasing departments of the leading multinational construction companies of the Middle East. During his mission abroad, he accomplished JSDP-1, JSDP-2, JSDP-3, KAFD, JTCF, JODP, KAUST, RASTANURA, AJYAL and KAEP infrastructure and superstructure projects, which have a total value of more than 10.2 billion dollars and have known as worldwide.
After he returned back to Turkey in 2016, he founded the Akvia Group company and started his foreign trade activities here. By exporting to 36 countries and 4 continents, he successfully maintains his commercial relations in these countries. Thanks to this, he has led great contributions to the Turkish economy, industry and engineers and made great efforts to find local products in the world markets. During this process, he has been provided job opportunities to many people who are unqualified personnel in the sector has been eliminated with the trainings and increased the ratio of employment.
Apart from the management of the companies he owns, Yılmaz conveys his expertise in "International Trade", "Global Marketing", "Investing and Strategic Procurement" and his experience via knowledge to the managers who want to fully develop themselves in these areas with his own coaching method, which he calls Self Surrounding Management (SSM).