Cem (Kemal) Mimaroğlu Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Founder and managing partner of ComposeVC's Built-World VC fund based in New York City. We focus on the tech stack at the intersection of Real Estate, Construction, Energy-efficiency & Climate sectors ('Built-World') and invest in seed / Pre-SeriesA startups in North America. Our anchor LPs are European and US Multinationals operating in related.

Etiler, Istanbul, TR

Investor / mentor / coach and scale-up officer to PreSeriesA portfolio companies of Turkey's 1st global-expansion VC fund vehicle. Supported mapping-executing-scaling managerial and operational processes as well as fine-tuning sales, marketing and product commercialization engines towards startups' expansion into Western European and North American.

İstanbul, İstanbul/Ümraniye, TR

Worked with Hasan Aslanoba, Turkey's biggest super angel, & team on launching and scaling Turkey's 1st B-B shipping on-demand marketplace, WebNak. Led the successful launch of the platform with a network of 2,500 shippers and 400+ SMEs within 4/6months. Transferred responsibilities to pursue individual investment vehicle

Istanbul, TR

Worked with Boyner, Turkey's biggest multi-brand retailer group known for it's innovative adoption of retail-centric services (Turkey's 1st installment based credit card program with Advantage; concierge services with Back-Up), on rolling-out a digital-social-mobile gifting, loyalty, CRM/big-data platform for merchants and customers. Managed a.

Stockholm, SE

Meniga, formerly known & launched as Wrapp, is/was the conceiver of social & everyday gifting commerce model globally and was backed by Atomico's Niklas Zennstrom (Skype founder) & Greylock's Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder). Worked on sales (channel-merchant development), strategy (partnership & platform integration), product (feature development &.

Developed, managed and marketed in-store gift card programs of big-brands such as Mudo, Yargici and Dilasima Group (MaxMara). Efforts led to the build-out of Turkey's first physical Gift Card MALL platform across largest organized chains and distributors. Led & managed development of end-user product, design of retailer services, integration to banks'.

Brookfield, Wisc., US

Commercially led First Data's entry into the Turkish payment systems market. Product & project managed $300mm worth independent-ATM-deployment and shared-POS-terminal business services. Led & organized marketing-sales-operations teams towards marketing, development and localization of integrated and outsourced content & processing platform with/for.

Founded and helped family venture build 1st fast-casual eatery chain of Turkey (a la AuBonPain & PretAManger). Business exited to Turkey's biggest food distribution and FMCG conglomerate

Newark, NJ, US

Managed $170mm growth and $200+mm total P&L with all of its pricing, product-development and field-strategy for Prepaid Solutions group of IDT Telecom Inc. Group became leading provider of POS-activated and merchandised prepaid & gift card category content for largest US retailer chains such as Walgreen's, Sears, Kroger, Exxon and 7/11. Cross-functionally.

US

Provided structured products origination, capitalization strategies and asset-liability management programs for world's biggest institutional investors and banks/insurers. Transfered responsibilities to pursue MBA

Mba, Financial And Entrepreneurial Management

Bachelor Of Science (Double Major), Information Decision Sciences / Systems (Mis) And Industrial Management (Finance)