Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced Emrah Tekdemir has been appointed country sales director for Türkiye.
In his new role, Tekdemir will continue to expand Rockwell Automation’s local presence, core business, and help customers accelerate their digital transformation journey to drive sustainability and efficiency outcomes. Emrah succeeds Ediz Eren, who is now regional vice president, Middle East, Türkiye and Africa.
“Turkiye has a strong machine builder community and engineering capacity with many system integration and EPC companies,” said Eren. “The trends after the pandemic bring an important opportunity to Turkiye to increase the exports of higher technology machines and engineering services. Emrah will lead our support for this endeavor with our local and global engineering expertise, products, and solutions.”
Tekdemir brings more than 30 years of industrial and electrical automation experience. Most recently, he served as country manager for Iraq, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine with Schneider Electric, handling M&A and building winning teams across cultures, countries, and businesses. He holds an MBA in energy management from Vienna University of Economics WU and Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University.
“I am honored and happy to join a leading industrial automation company and I will continue to lead and execute our accelerated growth strategy in Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan,” Emrah Tekdemir said. “We will be leveraging our new digital and cyber solutions which is important to drive value for our customers and transform the approach to business. We will be investing in region by developing new partnerships to serve our customers by being on ground.”