Kerem Özdemir

Profile

Munich. Two degrees in parallel, six stints of real work, one company being built.

I study Sustainable Management & Technology at the Technical University of Munich, and Economics at Istanbul University alongside it. The pairing is deliberate: one degree is about how industry has to change, the other about how the money behind it behaves.

What I actually enjoy is making things hold up. An emission inventory that someone else can check. A market model where every assumption has a name on it. A tool that refuses to guess when a number is missing, and says exactly what is missing instead. Most of my repositories exist because a spreadsheet somewhere failed silently and I did not want that to happen twice.

I am building CoLaunch with a small team, and I keep a set of public instruments for carbon accounting and financial analysis. Five of them run live on the projects page. Everything published under my name carries its source.

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Experience

Now

BIGM

Marketing manager, part-time · Munich

Running social media presence and brand identity for a B2B AI sales-automation platform, alongside my studies.

Now

CoLaunch

Co-founder · colaunch.app

A platform matching startup ideas with the talent to build them. Third at the Boğaziçi Enterprize competition; competed nationally among JA Startup teams and reached the YTU Entrepreneurship semi-final.

2026

Kaeser Kompressoren

Circular economy project at TUM · team of five

Designed a take-back scheme and a product-as-a-service model for industrial compressors. Ran the Scope 3 analysis and drew the route to ESPR compliance and a Digital Product Passport.

2025

SILREAL GmbH

Consultant intern · Berlin

Built the China market entry report for a healthcare and consumer goods client. Made the client presentations and the charts in them.

2025

Microbify GmbH

Market expansion consultant · Straubing

Mapped and sized three B2B segments for microbiological sampling from gas streams and liquids. Wrote the market entry strategy, with KPIs and a risk assessment under it.

Graded 1.0
2024

HTE Industrial Control Systems

Sustainability consultant intern · Istanbul

Went through the reporting obligations and separated the parts that applied to a controls manufacturer from the parts that did not.

2024

Tuğçelik Alüminyum

Sustainability intern · Istanbul

Collected fuel and electricity data across the production sites and built the company's first Scope 1 and Scope 2 inventory.

Credentials

Education

TUM · BSc Sustainable Management and Technology2024 to 2027
Istanbul University · BSc Economics, remote2025 to 2029
Yeditepe University · Management Information Systems, transferred to TUM2023 to 2024

Languages

Turkishnative
EnglishC1 · IELTS 7.0
GermanA2, self-assessed
Work permiteligible to work in Germany

Certifications

McKinsey Forward2026
BCG Digital Transformation simulation2026
Management Consulting · Emory2025
Sustainability Consulting · UIUC2025
Google Project Management2024
Google AI Essentials2024

Memberships

UN MGCY · Chemicals and Waste Youth Platformsince 2025
Enactus Straubing e.V. · finance auditor2024 to 2026