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TURKISH & AMERICAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER 
https://amcham.org/en/

Meeting with
Mr Rodney Fong ,
CEO US Cham San Francisco at San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Office at 235 Montgomery
 

TURKISH-AMERICAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
SAN FRANCISCO REPRESENTATIVE 

Prof.Dr.Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt  CPA, CFE

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Her bachelor's degree is from the Business Administration Department at Marmara University (1990) in Istanbul; her Master's degree (1994) and Ph.D. (2002) are from the Accounting and Finance Programme at the Social Graduate School, Marmara University; her postdoctoral study was conducted at London Metropolitan University (2004) social responsibility in accounting. 

 

Prof Çalıyurt worked as an auditor at Horwath Auditing Company, a manager at McDonald's, and a finance staff member at Singapore Airlines. With extensive experience in the private sector, she has transitioned to academia. Her research interests include accounting, auditing, fraud examination, social responsibility, corporate governance, finance, business ethics, and sustainability, with a particular focus on auditing, aviation management, NGOs, and the fast-moving sector. 

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Prof Çalıyurt was a visiting researcher at

*John Molson School of Business in the 2001 summer (International Centre for Aviation Management), Montreal, Canada,

* Massachusetts University Amherst Business School in the 2014 summer, the 2018 summer,and the  2024 summer (Accounting and Information Systems), Amherst, Massachusetts,

University of National World and Economy in the 2019 summer (Faculty of Accounting), Sofia, Bulgaria.

 

She founded two international conference groups

* International Group on Governance, Fraud, Ethics, and Social Responsibility (IGonGFE&SR) in 2009

* International Women and Business Group (IWBG) in 2009;

 

Both groups have organised annual conferences in Serbia, Bulgaria, Canada, Malaysia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the USA, the UK, and India.

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Prof Çalıyurt performs as 

  • book series editor in Springer, indexed in Scopus, titled “Accounting, Finance, Sustainability, Governance & Fraud: Theory and Application”, and in Routledge titled “Women and Sustainable Business.”

  • Attends as an invited speaker at the Cambridge Economic Crime Symposium and a workshop organizer on the role of external auditors in fraud prevention. 

  • Editorial board member in the Journal of Financial Crime (Web of Science - ESCI), International Journal of Law and Management (Web of Science - ESCI), Journal of Money Laundering Control (Web of Science – ESCI), International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (Web of Science – SSCI).​

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She is a founding partner of Herme Consulting, located in Trakya University Technopark. The company trains and organizes examinations in company fraud, sustainability, auditing, accountability, and academic publishing.

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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hHW9dh8AAAAJ&hl=tr&oi=ao

Meeting with Anita LW Huang,
Chief Staff & International Network Coordinator on January 28th, 2026 at the

at San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Office at 235 Montgomery 

Meeting with
Dr OÄŸuzhan Aygören, Director of the Institute of Business Innovation , Haas Business School, UC Berkeley

SUBJECT:
"MARKET RESEARCH IN SFO FOR TURKISH ENTREPRENEURS"

VIRTUAL ATTENDANCES
ASSOC PROF SELİN KÜÇÜKKANCABAÅž ASSOC
PROF İNCİ POLAT SESLİOKUYUCUASSOC
PROF OSMAN SESLİOKUYUCU 

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Meeting with Turkish business people in SFO
CPA Nuray Albayrak 
Entrepreneur Ali Gürlevik 
EA Karagöz Zeren

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Visiting Turkish Restaurant in Burlingame, SFO

Visiting Women Handcraft Cooperative A-C-C-I, Aahki, the Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Inc.

or the Berkeley Art Co-op on Shattuck

https://www.accigallery.com/

https://www.accigallery.com/history-of-acci.html

 

SAN FRANCISCO TABA TEAM 

HONORARY CHAIRS
RODNEY FONG
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CEO, SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

SÜLEYMAN ECEVİT SANLI,
CEO, TURKISH AMERICAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/suleymansanli/
 

REPRESENTATIVE
KIYMET TUNCA ÇALIYURT, REPRESENTATIVE

ADVISERS - SAN FRANCISCO - TURKISH US AMCHAM 

ACADEMIC ADVISERS - MARKETING & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
DR OÄžUZHAN AYGÖREN 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oguzhanaygoren/
ASSOC PROF SELİN KÜÇÜKKANCABAÅž 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/selin-k%C3%BC%C3%A7%C3%BCkkancaba%C5%9F-673a70b0/
CMO GÜLBİN HOEBERECHTS MBA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulbin-hoeberechts/

ACADEMIC ADVISERS - AVIATION 
ASSOC PROF İNCİ POLAT SESLİOKUYUCU

https://www.linkedin.com/in/inci-polat-sesliokuyucu-573b8aa9/
ASSOC PROF OSMAN SESLİOKUYUCU
https://www.linkedin.com/in/osman-sesliokuyucu-0b665934/

ACADEMIC ADVISERS - CYBERSECURITY & FRAUD EXAMINATION
BUKET DOÄžAN, EXPERT ON BIG DATA & ANALYSES

https://www.linkedin.com/in/buket-do%C4%9Fan-4941784/

tax and accountıng 
PROF DR KIYMET CALIYURT

https://www.linkedin.com/in/k%C4%B1ymet-tunca-%C3%A7al%C4%B1yurt-b776a07/
EA DR SEDA KARAGOZ ZEREN
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seda-karagoz-zeren-ph-d-mba-msc-bb858266/
CPA NURAY ALBAYRAK
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nurayalbayrak

 

BUSINESS & ENTREPREURSHIP 

ALİ GURLEVİK 

CAHİT ZEREN 

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