About

Beginning her career with consulting firm Yurttutan Topsakal Yörüker, Öykü Api quickly gained valuable experience in commercial, corporate and competition matters and helped her to ‘identify the most important elements’ of legal work that would help her in her future career. She then moved to banking institution Deniz Emeklilik, who were then taken over by American Life and renamed to MetLife. Api had a major role in this, and recalls that she ‘was in charge of leading the legal merger process’. While this was ‘a huge responsibility’, Api is convinced that this challenge was ‘a very good opportunity to grow [her] leadership skills’. When summing up the characteristics that have allowed her to achieve success throughout her career, Api explains that she is a ‘business-oriented person who likes delivering results for internal and external clients’ first and foremost, and this has fed into the rest of her work. Alongside her role in the aforementioned Metlife acquisition, Api cites ‘assisting the coordination of global data privacy projects within EMEA countries’ as a particular career highlight.