Born in 1968, Alpay ONKARDEŞLER graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 1992. After his graduation, he worked as Sales and Purchasing Manager at Izkum Pharmaceutical Warehouse, Assistant Accounting and Personnel Manager, Quality and Human Resources Manager and Assistant General Manager at EDAK Pharmacists Cooperative. Since 2013, he has been working as the partner and General Manager of YÖNDES Management Consultancy.

During his career, he gained experience in working as a Project Coordinator in important projects across the country in the field of process and innovation management with leading experts in their fields. In 1996, he led the management systems efforts at EDAK Pharmacists Cooperative, which was the first cooperative in Turkey to receive the ISO 9001 Quality Management System certification. In 2000, he worked on the establishment and activation of the Human Resources Department at EDAK and implemented modern human resources practices.

Between 2000 and 2002, under the consultancy of Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kavrakoğlu, he took part in the project of transition of pharmacist cooperatives to total quality. In 2005-2006, he served as the Project Leader in Turkey in the project of uniformization and improvement of business processes and transition of all structures to the ERP system, covering 25 organizations of other pharmacists’ cooperatives operating in Turkey under the consultancy of Prof. Dr. Arman KIRIM, and created innovation-based business models.

Since 2013, Alpay ONKARDEŞLER, who started his management consultancy activities, has carried out consultancy projects in many sectors such as energy, customs consultancy, logistics, industrial automation, informatics, food.
In his work as a senior manager and management consultant for 20 years within the scope of Project Management, Strategic Planning, Process Management, Human Resources, Corporate Governance, Supply Chain Management, Restructuring, Quality Management, Business Development, he has achieved significant improvements in areas such as market share, profitability, productivity and growth of organizations by acting with the philosophy of “Continuous Innovation”, which he sees as the most fundamental key to sustainable development, competitiveness and quality service understanding.

Alpay ONKARDEŞLER is a founding member and Audit Committee Member of Aegean Management Consultants Association.