Tolga Oncu

Tolga is the Ingka retail manager (COO) for Ingka Group where he is overall responsible for market penetration, expansion, fulfillment, and the commercial agenda. The Ingka Group consists of 379 IKEA stores including city stores across 31 markets, and counting, with 657 million visitors to these stores, and more than 3.8 billion visits to IKEA.com. Tolga has solid retail experience and has held various positions at IKEA. His first job was in 2002 as Logistics Manager at the Jönköping store in Sweden and later he continued as Sales Manager in the IKEA Örebro store in Sweden. In 2005, Tolga moved to Turkey to take on the role of Store Manager of IKEA Umraniye, Turkey, and from 2008-2012 he was Deputy Country Sales Manager and Country Sales Manager at IKEA Sweden. In 2012, Tolga joined IKEA Spain, first as Deputy Country Retail Manager and he became Country Retail Manager in 2015. He has a Business Administration degree from Mid Sweden University, Örnsköldsvik. Though he refers to him as a citizen of the world, Tolga is from Malmö where he also resides with his wife and child.