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Ahmet Rasim Çağın

Faculty Member · AI and Digital Transformation Advisor

Enterprise AI: from the right problem to a measurable first pilot.

Helping executive and transformation teams turn an AI agenda into clear priorities, ownership, pilots, and business outcomes.

More than 25 years of Silicon Valley operating experience and academic teaching underpin this approach.

Across more than 25 years in Silicon Valley, he led business strategy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence applications at JPMorgan, PayPal, and Walmart eCommerce.

His teaching at Boğaziçi University and U.C. Berkeley connects complex technologies to concrete decisions and process improvements organizations can use.

Portrait of Ahmet Rasim Çağın

Organizations he has worked with

Through education, advisory, and executive programs, Ahmet Rasim Çağın has worked with institutions and teams across sectors.

Organizations he has worked with

  • JPMorgan Chase
  • PayPal
  • Walmart eCommerce
  • Türkiye Wealth Fund
  • Yenibirlider Association
  • Türkiye Sigorta
  • SOCAR
  • Turkcell
  • Halkbank
  • Corporate Governance Association of Türkiye (TKYD)
  • Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Bursa Business School
  • U.C. Berkeley
  • Boğaziçi University
  • Boğaziçi University Technopark
  • ITU Çekirdek Incubation Center

If one of these situations sounds familiar, let’s define the right starting point.

Move the AI agenda beyond a tool list and into decisions, processes, teams, and measurable outcomes.

  • There are ideas, but no priority

    You need to weigh use cases and pilot candidates by impact, feasibility, and risk.

  • Teams do not share a language

    Leadership, business units, and technical teams need a common decision agenda.

  • Pilots do not become outcomes

    You want experiments to become working solutions with ownership, measures, and a real workflow.

Discuss your starting point

The first conversation clarifies the decision or process that needs to change, the first opportunity areas, and the scope of the next step.

He built this perspective inside transformation, not outside it.

He treats AI not as a tool list, but as a change in decisions, processes, and business outcomes.

25+ years of operating work in Silicon Valley across technology, finance, and e-commerce — then academic teaching.

About
  1. Sep 2024 - present

    Academic

    Boğaziçi University · Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

    Faculty Member — Boğaziçi University

  2. Aug 2008 - present

    Academic

    U.C. Berkeley · Haas School of Business

    Faculty Member — U.C. Berkeley

  3. Aug 2016 - Jun 2024

    Corporate

    Walmart eCommerce · San Bruno, California

    Head of Business Strategy and Analytics

  4. Feb 2012 - Jul 2016

    Corporate

    PayPal

    Head of North America Small Business Segment

  5. Jun 2000 - Jan 2009

    Corporate

    JPMorgan Chase · San Francisco, California

    Head of Business Analytics

Discuss your starting point

The first conversation clarifies the decision or process that needs to change, the first opportunity areas, and the scope of the next step.