About ASPEN
Leadership
Leadership built on engineering and execution.
Our team
Dr. Cengiz Karan
Founder
PhD in Metallurgy. Leads ASPEN’s technical direction across process selection, metallurgical engineering and project execution.
Neda Karan
Co-Founder
MSc in Materials Science. Works across project development, technology evaluation and partner coordination.
Our leadership philosophy
- Technical decisions should create business value.
- Project management should reduce uncertainty.
- Technology should serve the project — not define it.
- Every project should ultimately be judged by how successfully it operates.
We believe that successful leadership in complex mining and metallurgical projects requires more than managing schedules and contracts. It requires the ability to understand the process, challenge assumptions, identify risk early, bring the right specialists to the table and maintain alignment between technical decisions and the owner’s commercial objectives.