About Duygu Ozen

I'm a tech entrepreneur with 16+ years of marketing and innovation leadership, building growth for brands. My career spans global agencies (McCann Erickson, Havas), founding and exiting my own company, and scaling a $16M direct-to-consumer eCommerce business.

Today I work at the intersection of AI innovation and marketing: as the founder & CEO of WE7 AI, a carbon-first marketing intelligence platform, and as a Fractional CMO helping brands build growth systems powered by agentic AI. Marketing with AI isn't a tool I added later, it's how I operate.

Duygu Ozen, marketing leader and founder, in a professional portrait

From Agencies to Entrepreneurship

I started in global agency roles at McCann Erickson and Havas Group, then spent the next 16+ years as an entrepreneur: building and exiting a company, leading a $16M DTC eCommerce business, and advising 100+ 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 100+ 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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