Founder and CEO of Tukel, Inc. and former corporate CFO with over two decades of financial leadership at PepsiCo subsidiaries. A Wharton-trained Strategic CFO and US CPA, Cenk traded multi-billion-dollar enterprise balance sheets to solve one of the hardest operational hurdles for international entrepreneurs: launching, structuring and scaling startups in the US market.
Through Tukel, Inc., Cenk acts as a strategic financial partner to hundreds of high-growth founders, Y Combinator–backed teams and international startups expanding across the Atlantic.
Combining corporate financial rigor with hands-on startup empathy, he helps founders master US compliance, optimize cash runways and structure venture-ready financial foundations that win over global VCs.
He lands in Bucharest this October to break down the exact financial and structural playbook CEE founders need to conquer the US market, raise international capital and avoid day-zero compliance traps.