New business/product design leader with 18+ years in professional life, last 9 years track record as senior executive with extensive team/culture building and leadership experience across telecom, finance, internet and retail industries blended with an internationally-recognized academic background in Computer Engineering and Business Management from the top-rated university in Turkey.Comprehensive expertise in design thinking practice, innovation management, service design, agile development, product launch, product management and growth. Gained hands-on experience with ideation facilitation, business model validation, user research, prototyping and end2end human-centric service experience design. Had the chance to work on numerous projects from a wide range of domains like fintech services, mobile payment, direct carrier billing, qr payments, mobile wallets, online & mobile banking, open banking, open data, & APIs, service model banking, platform business, e-commerce, mobile commerce, social commerce, mobile apps, mobile loyalty, marketplaces, p2p lending, equity-based crowdfunding, online education, superapps.With an entrepreneurial spirit in corporate environment, I believe in the importance of adopting design thinking & lean startup methodology and fighting against business-as-usual in order to achieve disruptive innovation and come up with beautiful products & services that change lives.