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Board Member at NEOHUB, DenizBank's Brand New Response on Financial & Technological Paradigm Shift. NEOHUB unites Venture Capital (Deniz Ventures), Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (Deniz Akvaryum) and e-Money/Payments (Fastpay) while developing new platform banking solutions (Mercan), BaaS and API Infrastructure for the future of banking.

• Assisting early stage portfolio startups of Volitan Ventures in HealthTech, MedTech and BioTech domains in their go-to-market and product strategies and developing business partnerships in US and European markets.• Sourcing investors and assisting fundraising processes of the startups• Providing Product & Business Development services to the international clients of the healthcare investment & consulting company Volitan Global, parent company of Volitan Ventures.

Co-founded Hyperleap, channel partner for early stage US tech startups in EMEA Market:• Sourced emerging companies (such as Datadog, Onelogin and more) for partnership in EMEA Market• Developed partnership relations and agreements with prospect companies & startups• Supervised sales and operations as the Co-founder & Board Member

• Driven investment and corporate innovation processes of Zorlu Ventures, Zorlu Group's Corporate Venture Capital Arm in Silicon Valley. • Generated high quality deal flow in Silicon Valley by identifying and proposing investment and partnership opportunities in strategic domains.• Performed quantitative and qualitative market research, industry landscape evaluations and forecasts to identify new investment trends and opportunities• Developed relationships with early stage companies, entrepreneurs and founders, led meetings to identify and prioritize investment opportunities and potential areas of partnerships, represented the firm within the startup and VC ecosystem• Conducted deep technical and business due diligence of potential investments after initial screening by performing different levels of analysis on market dynamics, product, competitors, team, investors, key metrics/financials, capital structure, valuation modeling, risks, and by engaging relevant technical domain experts• Presented outcomes of these analyses to Investment Committee to support investment decisions, assisting development of investment theses• Supported portfolio startups and working with various cross-functional teams across multiple Zorlu Group companies (Electronics, Energy, White Goods, etc.) to drive and coordinate partnership opportunities with startups and to shape a well-coordinated corporate development strategy• Managed the pipeline/portfolio management system (Affinity) to track the pipeline and to develop investment funnel; developed analytical models (including Machine Learning, Neural Network and Regression Analysis Models) to support the management’s decision making

• Provided consulting service to Denizbank AS for design and development of a Fintech Ecosystem that will support the services bank provides to their customers and to other banks:- Designed, managed and led the Business Architecture side of the complete project which encompasses Complete Business Model, Organizational Structure, Roadmap, Partners and Supportive & Surrounding Operations such as creating a Venture Capital fund to support startups in this ecosystem- Conducted a thorough analysis of the IT operations, products and infrastructure of the bank, defined pain points and requirements for new ecosystem model- Performed extensive research on global B2B and B2C software ecosystems & marketplaces, Turkish startup ecosystem, global Fintech and Open Banking trends - Assisted the team on Technical Architecture side on subject-matters such as Open Banking, API Architecture and Implementation of Agile- Executed presentations to CEO, CIO, CDO and Executive Vice Presidents of the bank- Sourced multiple US and Turkish Fintech startups to include in this B2B and B2C ecosystem

• Provided consulting service to Kale Group (Multi-Billion Dollar Turkish conglomerate) for their Digital Transformation Project to successfully modernize and transform their IT infrastructure and software portfolio:
- Conducted a full scope analysis of client’s Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain and Manufacturing operations and systems, defined pain points- Performed extensive research on various CRM, ERP, SRM, TM, PLC software solutions and Cloud/Database, Industry 4.0, IoT technologies for the assessment of the best solution for each IT related necessity and problem- Recommended portfolio of solutions that would improve efficiency by substantial margin in every segment of operations- Created a detailed roadmap/timeline, mapping and planning for implementation and integration of solutions on client’s existing technological foundation

• Assisted Product Development processes of new projects in the Mobile Development Team under Agile/Scrum framework• Worked with cross functional teams inside the company (Engineering, Product and Business teams) to coordinating the expectations, requirements and executions of the software products• Validated data consistency between the end-products and Salesforce by using various native Salesforce tools such as SOQL, Workbench and Data.com• Assisted integration process between different systems with API’s using Mulesoft and Anypoint Studio (Currently holding Mulesoft Certified Developer: Integration and API Associate Certificate)• Developed Product Management, UX Design, QA skills• Obtained administration experience on Salesforce