Steven Young, President of the Bosch Group in Turkey and Middle East, was born in 1964. Young studied engineering at University of Wollongong in Australia, continued his education at University of Technology in Sydney and at Australian Institute of Management attaining his postgraduate degree in management at Deakin University.

 

Steven Young started his career at Mannesmann Australia in 1988 as a Special Projects Engineer, performing various functions until 1994, including the headquarter of Mannesmann Rexroth in Germany. In 1995 at the age of 30, Young was assigned as Managing Director at Mannesmann Rexroth Turkey. In 2001 after the acquisition of Rexroth by Bosch, Young became the Managing Director of Bosch Rexroth Turkey.

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Since 2011 until today, Young is the President of the regional Bosch Group in both Turkey and Middle East.

From February 2015, Young became G20/B20 2015 Turkey Employment Task Force Co-Chair and as of November 2015, he began to hold the presidency of Turkey-Germany Business Council, Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK). Between 2013 and 2016, he was assigned as Vice President of AHK (German-Turkish Chamber of Industry and Commerce). Between 2013 and 2019 he was assigned as a member of the executive board and as Vice President of YASED (International Investors Association), founding member of TUSIAD/TCCI (Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association) and German High School Board of Directors.

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Steven Young speaks Turkish, English and German fluently. He is married and has 2 children.