Hakan Irgıt is SOCAR Azneft – Chief Transformation Officer. Irgıt is also the Senior Advisor to the CEO of SOCAR Türkiye. Irgıt currently serves as a Board Member at SOCAR Fiber, and is the Vice President at Petkimspor – Professional Basketball Club in Turkish Basketball Super League and FIBA Basketball Champions/Europe League.

Irgıt is also the Chairman of the Board at WRI – World Resources Institute of Türkiye, a global non-profit focused on Sustainable Cities, and an honorary board member at Global Turks Foundation.

Between 2019-2024 he held board positions at Millenicom Telecom, SOCAR R&D, and SOCAR Integrated Business Services Company.

During 2020-2023, he was the Chief Digital Transformation & Information Officer at SOCAR Türkiye where he was leading the centralized technology driven transformation of the business & operations which focused on the establishment of the digital mindset and culture through ideation, co-innovation and deployment of advanced technologies & automation.

In November 2018, he joined SOCAR, the biggest foreign direct investor in Türkiye, as the Chief Integration Officer. He was responsible for leading the integration of functions and operations of Refinery & Petrochemical Business Unit, and post-merger Gas Trading & Distribution Business Unit integration activities. He was also the head of Corporate Strategy Management, Culture & Change Management and Information Technology till 2020.

Irgıt started his career at Accenture (Andersen Consulting) – Dallas, TX in the Global Business Solutions group in 1996. Between 2001 and 2004 within Accenture’s Energy Practice, he held managerial positions in the transformation projects at regional and global energy companies based in Budapest, London and The Hague. Following four years, based in New York, he led Accenture Business Intelligence Group in North America, and served energy, pharmaceutical, insurance and media companies.

In 2008, he established the Accenture Türkiye Resources – Oil & Gas, Utilities, Petrochemicals and Natural Resources Industry practice in Istanbul. Until 2018, he assumed the role of Country Executive Director where the strategy, management and technology consulting portfolio were consisted of major local and international energy companies, state owned companies, Energy Ministry and Regulatory Authority.

Hakan Irgıt attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program in 2023. He graduated from the University of North Texas with a BA in Business Computer Information Systems and Business Administration in 1996.