Kerem Kadakal has been appointed as the new General Manager of Diageo Türkiye.

With more than 25 years of experience in sales and customer development across both multinational and local companies, Kadakal will lead Diageo Türkiye’s journey of sustainable growth and commercial success by further strengthening the company’s consumer and customer focus.

A significant senior leadership appointment has been made within Diageo, one of the world’s largest premium beverage alcohol companies, covering its Türkiye organization. Kerem Kadakal has been appointed as the new General Manager of Diageo Türkiye.

Having joined Diageo Türkiye in September 2025 as Commercial Director, Kadakal will, in his new role, lead the company’s sustainable growth and transformation agenda. He will focus on further deepening consumer and customer centricity, strengthening brand and category performance, and supporting the development of an agile, future-ready organization that fosters talent development and a high-performance, people-centric culture. He will also play a key role in further integrating Diageo Türkiye with the global organization, enhancing its international impact, and aligning it more closely with Diageo’s global vision.

With over 25 years of experience in sales and customer development across multinational and local companies, Kadakal began his career as Supply Chain Project Leader at Pakom Industrial Solutions. After holding various sales roles at Gillette, he joined P&G, where he led integration processes and served as Market Strategy and Planning Director responsible for the Health and Personal Care categories. During this period, he contributed to shaping sales strategies for approximately a decade.

In 2008, Kadakal joined Danone, and from 2009 onwards he worked at Evyap. Between 2014 and 2017, he served as Sales Director for Evyap Türkiye, leading the entire sales organization. From 2017 to 2020, he was Co-Founder at N2Growth, where he provided advisory services in sales and talent management to companies across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & North Africa regions. Since 2020, he has been with Nestlé, where he served as General Manager responsible for Sales across all categories and as a member of the leadership team, driving the company’s strategy and transformation journey.

Kerem Kadakal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University and an MBA from the same institution.