Co-Founder and CEO, Gizil

Esma Gulten is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gizil with the industrial technology platform Virtual Plant®. With a background in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, she focuses on solving one of the most practical challenges in brownfield facilities: fragmented, outdated and disconnected asset information. Through Virtual Plant®, she and her team connect 1D and 2D engineering data, 3D reality capture and technical documents into a trusted digital layer for existing industrial assets. Her work spans industrial digitalization projects across Europe, the United States, Latin America and Saudi Arabia, supporting critical infrastructure and energy-intensive industries in improving asset visibility, knowledge transfer and operational decision-making.