M. Erkam Kocakerim was born in 1979 and graduated from Chemical Engineering Department of Kocaeli University in 2004. He continued his studies at US Washington University about gas hold-up in bubble column reactor designs for petrochemical companies. He has completed Executive MBA program at Bilkent University in 2019.
He started his cement career in 2005 as Production Engineer and continued his career in Limak Cement Group as Production Chief and Production Manager. In 2011, he promoted to establish Technical Center in the new headquarter and was appointed as the company's first R&D and Business Development Director.
In addition, during 2012-2015, led the growth of the company as the project coordinator for the plants and led contract management, project financing and site works during investments of Limak Cement Group.
Also responsible for establisment of growth strategy in overseas countries and responsible of investments and operations of greenfield projects in Mozambique, Cote d’Ivoire and Overseas Sales, Marketing & Trading Company in Dubai. He carried out the position of CEO of Limak Cimentos Mozambique during ramp-up period. He is currently the Global CEO of Limak Cement Group since January 2021..
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