Seasoned Managing Director with a special focus on Marketing and Technical Sales with over 25 years of work experience in US and Turkey. I have been involved in both sides of the business; i.e., worked as an employee and also as an employer/shareholder which has provided me with unique set of skills like; extensive knowledge and experience in local company start-ups and regulations, general company operations, P&L responsibilities, developing sales and gaining market share for our business and overall team management.I have a competitive and self-motivated personality with strong interpersonal communication skills.My non-negotiable personal motto in everything I do both in professional and personal life is honesty and trust. I expect the same both from my employers and employees.Always love to work in and be part of a friendly and professional team. I am extra careful to give enough and right credit to the right people in the companies I run and always received the respect and trust from the people I manage, including from the ones I had to let go.I can count the following as the sum of my collected professional expertise over the years; operational management, industrial markets and manufacturing operations, B2B technical sales and marketing activities, production quality and efficiency management, business, financial and employee-talent management and international trade regulations and operations.My higher educational life took me through three institutions; ODTU (Middle East Technical University –Ankara, Turkey – BSc.Mech.Engineering), UMASS Dartmouth (MA, USA – MSc.Material Sciences) and Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey – MBA). All of them contributed significantly to my personal and professional development.Welcome to get in touch with me via Linkedin platform or by mail at erelsarhan@gmail.com