Ferhan Cook Email & Phone Number

Istanbul And London

m-Spark.org, acts as advisor and international mentor for innovators making widespread social impact by using cutting edge technologies

Istanbul Turkey

Coordinated 12 expert Jury members and participated as jury member on an all day long selection process to choose the winners in Data and IOT, Nanotechnology, Materials and Transportation,and Energy.

London, United Kingdom

I have been judging in both the Education and AR/VR categories for GSMA's GLOMO Awards. This takes place at the Mobile World Congress, that hosts over 100,000 professionals of the Mobile Industry.

London And Istanbul

Director of Events, Innovation Ecosystem and Community Building

Europe

Discovering young new talent, and tech geniuses...

Istanbul, Turkey

Founding member, mentor to start ups

Istanbul

This event took place in Istanbul on April 11, 2012. It was about Borderless Creativity & Commerce. Check out details at www.tedxsilkroad.com, and watch videos at You Tube, Tedxsilkroad playlist.

Istanbul, Turkey

Served on the Preselection Jury, provided one to one mentoring to Finalists.. Designed ÇK 2.0 as strategic advisor.

Istanbul

A strategic Mobile Thought Leadership forum, sponsored by Qualcomm, created to bring together the digital leaders of Turkey with the international and Turkish mobile technology opinion leaders. 15 international speakers, including the President of Turkcell Technology, Head of Qualcomm Turkey, Spotify, Nokia and many others, finished by excellent networking.

Austin Texas

Helping SXSW reach hot start ups from around the world who should be featured to investors during SXSW next March

Different Locations, Last One Was At Nomads Istanbul!

We've held 5 different Cross Industry networking events at hot Istanbul locations all sponsored by Qualcommm, connecting the members of the digital, media and investor ecosystems. Each event had an average of 200 people...

London, United Kingdom

International digital media consultancy in Mobile Content, Digital Publishing, and high level network marketing and conference programming. Publisher of MobiAd News, www.mobiadnews.com, which currently attracts 60,000 readers per month.

Ogilvy London, United Kingdom

Consultant Cool Hunter of cutting edge technologies and interactive art concerning Mobile, Internet and Connected technologies for Ogilvy Digital Innovation Lab in London

Paris Area, France

Curated Speakers and Designed Content for all the digital conferences of this big Television event in Cannes.Provided future direction and strategic advice to executive teams on digital media futuresDesigned and organised the first industry Mobile TV Awards at MIPCOMDesigned, produced and acted as Jury member for Content 360 Awards

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Program Director and Marketing head for PICNIC '09, Creative Festival in Amsterdam

Broadband Bananas was a very popular networking group, connecting the professionals in interactive TV, Broadband and Mobile Industries. Held quarterly networking events in London, Sydney, Cannes, and Amsterdam, in hip clubs. We sold BBB, in November 05, to another event organizer.

As VP of Interactive Television and Broadband, I was in charge of developing new business and managing account teams with clients such as Thomas Cook, Channel 4, BT, ONO Spain, etc. For this clients, i was the strategist, who led the teams to create unique prototypes for Interactive Television, as well as defining broadband business strategies.

Paris Area, France

Held many international jobs at Apple US and Europe for 11 years, including PDA publishing. My roles spanned from creating and project managing and launching communications peripherals for Apple and managing this business from a P&L stand point ( $20 million sales in first year). After the Peripherals group, I joined Apple II software group and worked with.

California And Paris

Please see the full Apple experience down below in Chrono order. I actually worked there for 11 years between 1983 to 1994 in California and Paris France, holding several management jobs.

Paris Area, France

In this role I headed up the European Multimedia teams. I launched Apple's groundbreaking multimedia software Quicktime around Europe, and also grew the sales of the CDROM drives by evangelizing the development of educational and entertainment titles. In this role, I won the Golden Apple award in 1982 for the success I created for Apple's multimedia.

Silicon Valley, California

Co founder of this small start-up which created detachable keyboards for Apple II computers. I was responsable for creating the marketing launch plans, and overall partnerships including Apple. This taught me valuable lessons about start up financing and entrepreneurship and eventually led to my landing a job with Apple Computer as the very first product.

I was hired as a financial analyst first, and then got quickly promoted to be the Marketing Controller of New Product Developments for the Dole Foods and Bumble Bee brands, where I became responsable for a $25 million R&D budget, where we created new product and franchise extensions for these top food brands. In this role as Controller, I opened and closed.

Executive Program, Exponential Technologies

A program introducing the future of all the exponential Challenges and Opportunities brought by the latest technologies.

Mba, International Business And Finance

Activities and Societies: Tennis, Karate Club MBA in International Finance

Bba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Soloist and Dancer, in the Turkish Folk Dancing Team Majored in International Business and Finance

Executive Program, Technology

Completed the Executive Program, 2015

Cpa, State Of Hawaii