Levent Arabaci

Mr. Arabaci has over 30 years of experience in leadership and transformation and spent last 17 years of his career at Hitachi Ltd. and held executive leadership positions in multiple functions. Mr. Arabaci was responsible for driving and executing the transformation across HR, Finance, IT, Procurement, and Facilities and is tasked with creating best-in-class operations across the enterprise.

During his tenure at Hitachi, Mr. Arabaci had a successful career and notable accomplishments. Hitachi Vantara was recognized as the best place to work in 2009, 2010, and 2012. In addition, Vantara was listed on the Fortune 100 “Best Companies to Work For” in 2012 and was recognized as the top 40 “Best Companies for Leaders” in 2012. Mr. Arabaci was asked to lead the global HR transformation for the entire Hitachi in April 2012. He has developed and executed a global HR strategy supported by the Workday end-to-end (Human Capital Management) HCM platform for over 250,000 employee base. These initiatives resulted in $500M in savings to Hitachi while creating an accountability and growth mindset culture where every employee has an equal opportunity to unleash their full potential.

Later, Mr. Arabaci was assigned to lead Hitachi’s transformation for entire back-office functions in 2019 as the Chief Transformation Officer. In this capacity, Mr. Arabaci has launched the first Global Expense Management and Global Business Services (GBS) platform and identified multiple mission-critical projects across all functions to achieve $750M savings to prepare Hitachi for the next 100 years.

Prior to Hitachi Ltd., Mr. Arabaci held senior-level positions at Cisco Systems Inc., Nestle, and Pepsi Co. in various functions such as operations, finance, internal audit, and primarily human resources. Mr. Arabaci holds a master’s degree in general management from the University of Istanbul, and an MBA in Marketing from the California State University, San Bernardino. He is a member of various advisory boards and earned awards and recognition for the work he has produced in various positions during his career.