Zeynep Deldag is a Partner at EY and Head of Consulting for EY Netherlands, where she leads the entire consulting practice across technology, business, risk, and people advisory, and across all sectors. She is also a Client Serving Partner for some of the world’s largest banks and insurers.
Before stepping into her current role, Zeynep spent over two decades building an international career that has taken her from Istanbul to Moscow, Amsterdam to St. Petersburg, and Almaty to London, before returning to Amsterdam.
She studied Economics at Marmara University and began her career as an IT intern at Mikroset, later working as a banking intern at Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi. She then joined Andersen, where she worked on audit and due-diligence projects for major Turkish banks, before moving to EY in 2002 following the Andersen–EY merger in Turkey.
Over the years, Zeynep has held several senior management positions across different countries, and in 2012 she became a Partner at EY. From 2022 to 2025, she served as EMEIA Chief Innovation Officer, driving the digital transformation of audit within financial services across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa.
Finally, Zeynep is 49 years old and lives with her husband in Amsterdam. They have two sons who currently live in the United States.
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Previous guests on the Leaders in Finance podcast include: Eerdere gasten bij de Leaders in Finance podcast waren onder andere: Klaas Knot (President DNB), Frank Elderson (Directie ECB), Roland Boekhout (CEO de Volksbank), Gerrit Zalm (Voormalig minister van Financiën en voormalig CEO ABN AMRO), Ingrid de Swart (Lid Raad van Bestuur a.s.r.), Pinar Abay (Management Board ING, Head of Retail Banking), Robert Swaak (CEO ABN AMRO), Marcel Zuidam (CEO NN Bank), Saul van Beurden (CEO Consumer, Small & Business Banking, Wells Fargo), David Knibbe (CEO NN Group), Janine Vos (RvB Rabobank), Nadine Klokke (CEO Knab), Maarten Edixhoven (CEO Van Lanschot Kempen), Jeroen Rijpkema (CEO Triodos Bank), Nout Wellink (Voormalig President DNB), Onno Ruding (Voormalig minister van Financiën), Yoram Schwarz (CEO Movir), Laura van Geest (Bestuursvoorzitter AFM), Katja Kok (CEO Van Lanschot CH), Ali Niknam (CEO bunq), Nick Bortot (CEO BUX), Petri Hofsté (Commissaris o.a. Rabobank en Achmea), Peter Paul de Vries (CEO Value8), Barbara Baarsma (CEO Rabo Carbon Bank), Jan van Rutte (Commissaris PGGM, BNG Bank; voormalig CFO ABN AMRO), Marguerite Soeteman-Reijne (Chair Aon Holdings), Lidwin van Velden (CEO Nederlandse Waterschapsbank), Jan-Willem van der Schoot (CEO Mastercard NL), Joanne Kellermann (Chair PFZW), Steven Maijoor (Voormalig Chair ESMA), Radboud Vlaar (CEO Finch Capital), Jos Baeten (CEO a.s.r.), Karin van Baardwijk (CEO Robeco), Annette Mosman (CEO APG).
