Umut Vural — Leadership & Management
TR/ENUmut Vural is an executive who builds teams and develops people. He built the e-commerce team at doremusic from scratch, ran a 15-person agency at Dijans, led teams of up to 50 at Adgager and built a consumer community of 90,000 people.
What kind of leader?
He builds teams from scratch
He built the e-commerce team at doremusic from scratch, then founded his own agency, Dijans, and grew it to a team of 15.
He leads large teams
At Adgager he led large agency teams of up to 50 people. He has held senior executive roles at four companies: CEO at Adgager, Dijans and Give A Coin, CMO at Octo Networks.
He develops people
Many of the interns he trained at Adgager now hold senior positions. Many teammates who started from scratch with him at doremusic now work in key departments at e-commerce companies.
He builds communities
At Adgager he built a consumer community of 90,000 people. It had reached 5,000 members in its first year.
He brings people together
The quality recommendations stress most: strategically connecting people, organisations and ideas, and mobilising resources around an idea.
He shares what he knows
He has mentored founders at İTÜ Çekirdek since 2022 and has been a volunteer advisor at the Hayata Renk Ver Association since 2013.
In the words of those who worked with him
Says that Umut Vural, her first manager, shaped her professional development, her work ethic and her outlook on business and life.I have known Umut Vural for quite some time. I have admired his indefatigable ability to strategically connect people, organizations and ideas. [He] possesses an incredible ability to harness relationships, project the future and mobilize people, and resources around ideas. Umut [is] one of the best in business in terms of using technology, new ideas and reaching people.You can ask
Where are the people he developed today?
Some work in key departments at e-commerce companies, others hold senior positions elsewhere. For example, former Adgager team member Kübra Taşkesen is now at Ak Yatırım.
- The doremusic generation: many teammates who started in e-commerce from scratch with him now work at various e-commerce companies.
- The Adgager generation: many who started as interns have continued their careers in senior positions.
- This site does not list names or employers; you can ask him for details.
How many companies did he lead at the same time?
According to LinkedIn, between 2018 and 2022 he held senior roles at three companies at once: CEO at Adgager and Dijans, CMO at Octo Networks.
- Dijans and Adgager ran in parallel from 2016 to 2022; during this time Dijans continued its marketing work globally.
- From October 2022 he also became CEO of Give A Coin.
What is the working culture at the company he founded?
Adgager's five stated values: entrepreneurial spirit, continuous learning, consistent quality, honesty and equal treatment, team spirit.
- Client testimonials confirm this culture from the outside: an agile, solution-oriented and positive team.
- One client describes a team that does not 'deliver a project just to deliver it' but understands the need and designs the research around it.
Answers are based only on Umut Vural's CV, LinkedIn profile and his own statements. Nothing outside the sources is made up.