
Atak to lead Citi's innovation lab in Dublin
Gulru Atak headed treasury and trade solutions at Citi Turkey

Senior Citi banker Gulru Atak is to head up the bank’s treasury and trade solutions (TTS) innovation laboratory in Dublin. She will report to Ebru Pakcan, head of TTS for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The Dublin lab was created in 2009, as the first of two labs designed to foster innovation in Citi’s cash-management and trade finance banking business.
Previously, Atak had been TTS head for Turkey and non-presence countries in central Asia and the Caucasus since 2014. She joined Citi
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