Jay Gocenoglu manages partner development for Wevise's Chicago cohorts, responsible for building the coalition of organizations that refer participants, provide mentors, and support cohort delivery. He brings nearly twenty years of program leadership at the intersection of corporate strategy, workforce development, and public-private partnership. Jay spent nine years leading IBM's corporate social responsibility and communications agenda in Turkey, where he co-orchestrated a nationwide partnership with the Ministry of Education that integrated IBM's technology curricula into national vocational education, reaching more than 500,000 students, and led the national launch of SkillsBuild, IBM's workforce-development platform. He also directed three cohorts of IBM's Corporate Service Corps pro bono consulting program. Most recently, Jay spent nearly four years as Strategic Programs Group Manager at Avanade in Chicago, building enterprise client engagement and sustainability programs. His earlier career includes corporate affairs roles at Türk Telekom and Vodafone Turkey and program management at the British Council. Jay holds a PhD in Public Relations from Marmara University, an MSc in Corporate Governance and Business Ethics from Birkbeck, University of London, and a BA in International Relations from Istanbul University. He was a Chevening Scholar of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.