İbrahim Sipahi

Cargo Product Development Specialist Turkish Cargo

İbrahim Sipahi began his career as finacial auditor at KPMG Turkey. 

He started with Turkish Airlines in Catering and Inflight Products Division as Global Catering Contracts Specialist in 2012. There, he managed alliances for long haul destinations with global airline catering companies such as Gate Gourmet, Dnata, SATS, LSG Sky Chefs as many other local ones to serve TK passengers a standardized return catering all around the World.

In 2014, he joined Turkish Cargo, a cargo subsidiary of Turkish Airlines. As Global Cargo Handling Contracts Specialist, he successfully managed ground handling negotiations with ramp and cargo handling agents resulting in improved service quality and minimized handling costs. He was also responsible from the control of the accuracy of the invoices on SAP system. 

Since 2016, İbrahim is working as Cargo Product Development Specialist under Special Cargo Management taking part in launching new cargo products and solutions globally for Turkish Cargo and its customers. With the implementation of TK Pharma Days, he took active role in the successful organisation of first pharma day in Frankfurt where pharma manufacturers and their forwarding agents in the Europe region found the chance to come together, convey their expactations from Turkish Cargo as a carrier and learn from their individual experiences for a best pharma practice. 

In his career, he has attended many international conferences, seminars and workshops as a delegate and speaker in Americas, India and Europe in the areas of air cargo logistics especially for pharmaceuticals and healthcare products.

E-commerce and CEP (courier, express, parcel) market remains at his core responsibility. He is also interested in analyzing the World air cargo market in order to efficiently gather and submit information for new possible trade lanes. 

İbrahim holds a graduate degree from Koc University, an MBA from Marmara University and a certificate from London School of Economics.