About Duygu Ozen

I'm a tech entrepreneur with over 20 years of marketing and innovation leadership, building growth for brands. Today I work as an AI-native Fractional CMO and Growth Marketer, with Search & AI Visibility among my core services. My career spans global agencies (McCann Erickson, Havas), founding and scaling my own company, and helping the founders grow a $16M direct-to-consumer eCommerce business.

Today, I work at the intersection of AI, marketing intelligence, and responsible growth. As the Founder & CEO of WE7 AI, I’m building an intelligence platform that helps brands uncover wasted media spend, make better marketing decisions, and discover new growth opportunities from the data they already have. I also work as a Fractional CMO, helping brands build growth systems powered by agentic AI. AI isn’t a tool I added to marketing later. It’s embedded in how I think, build, and operate.

Duygu Ozen speaking on stage at a United Nations event

From Agencies to Entrepreneurship

I started in global agency roles at McCann Erickson and Havas Group, then turned entrepreneur: building and scaling a company, helping scale a $16M DTC eCommerce business alongside its founders, and advising 50+ startups and Fortune 500 teams on growth and marketing.

Growth Startups & Unique Go-to-Market

Beyond the agency and DTC worlds, I've spent years inside high-growth startups building go-to-market strategies from zero. I've advised 50+ founders on positioning, channel sequencing, and the moment to scale — each with a GTM built for its own shape, not a borrowed playbook.

I practice what I build. WE7 AI is my own growth startup: a carbon-first marketing intelligence platform launched with a unique GTM — proving the unique-strategy model I advise others on, on my own company.

AI Innovation in Practice

I don't just talk about AI marketing, I build with it. At WE7 AI I designed a multi-agent intelligence system, and in my Fractional CMO work every growth system I install is AI-powered by default: from research and content to measurement and optimization.

Purpose Is the Through-Line

Growth, for me, has never been just about numbers. I'm a Board Member of Conscious Capitalism NYC, a UN Global Compact participant, and a speaker at United Nations events on responsible business. I've called New York home since 2014.

I help brands grow with purpose: measurable, profitable, and responsible to people and the planet.

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