PowerWomen Speak with Serpil Timuray

Serpil Timuray is an Independent Non-Executive Director at British American Tobacco Plc.  Most recently, Serpil was the CEO of Vodafone Investments and a member of Vodafone Group's Executive Committee. Her previous roles at Vodafone Group's Executive Committee included CEO of Europe Cluster, Group Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer, and CEO of AMAP (Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific).  Prior to joining Vodafone, Serpil spent 10 years at Danone Plc, latterly as the CEO of Danone Dairy Turkey. Prior to Danone, she held several marketing roles at Procter & Gamble Plc. Serpil also serves on the boards of various non-profit organisations. She is the Founding Chair of ChangeTheFace Alliance, an industry-wide global cooperation to accelerate diversity and inclusion in the tech sector. She was awarded GSMA's "Diversity in Tech Outstanding Achievement GLOMO Award" in 2022 for this. She is a Board Member of Digital Leaders Europe at WEF, a member of Founders4Schools, and a Board Member of DEIK DTIK (Global Turkish Business Council) and the UK Representative of DTIK. She has also served as a board member of GSMA (Global Mobile Communications Association) and chaired the GSMA Board's Public Policy Committee. Serpil has been recognised in various international rankings, including HERoes "100 Women Executives Role Model List" six times, ranking 4th in 2024, Financial Times HERoes "Champions of Women in Business" ranking 20th in 2018, Fortune's "Most Powerful Women International" ranking 27th in 2017 and Newsweek's "World's 125 Women of Impact" ranking 79th in 2013.