Zeynep Koller

Executive summary

Zeynep Koller is a Principal in Grant Thornton’s Strategy & Transformation practice based in Boston. She is responsible for the growth and innovation practice to help clients respond to market pressures, place bets where to play, regain competitiveness and grow profitably.

Zeynep recently led Accenture’s Consumer Goods strategy practice in the Northeast region leading a portfolio of clients and navigating across multiple client disciplines and business models. She has worked side by side with many iconic food, home & personal care, alcoholic beverages companies and athletic apparel retailers. Her client partnerships and advisory focuses on profitability interventions with the objective to extract funds to accelerate revenue growth and invest in critical capabilities. She has expanded the application of zero-based principles from overhead to people, operations and demand generating investments like Trade and Marketing.

With a passion for helping clients solve their growth equation and placing bets on where to play and win, she continues to industrialize advanced-analytics led approaches to bring a more scientific lens to solving clients’ pain points.

As a transformational leader and operational strategist, Zeynep has ~20 years of experience influencing and driving alignment in the C-Suite and building authentic relationships. She was worked in more than 25 countries across several continents and thrives on diversity and individual strengths.

Zeynep is a German national, Turkish native living in Boston with a passion for polar expeditions and competitive speed skating.