Tugrul Firatli Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

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Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Member of the executive management team responsible for sales and business development. Global responsibilities included customer and partner engagements, identifying and validating target verticals, market positioning and go-to-market strategy to establish Cloak Labs as the leading vendor in the evolving Secure Application Integration market.Initiated and led the business track that resulted in the merger of Cloak Labs with Kaazing.

Software start-up in Operational Intelligence and Big Data analytics. Responsible for global business development and sales with focus on telecommunications, financial services, oil & gas markets, all virgin markets for Starview where I built a pipeline with Fortune 100 companies from scratch. Global responsibilities included customer and partner engagements, identifying and validating target market segments, market positioning and go-to-market strategy. Started and developed a strategic… Show more Software start-up in Operational Intelligence and Big Data analytics. Responsible for global business development and sales with focus on telecommunications, financial services, oil & gas markets, all virgin markets for Starview where I built a pipeline with Fortune 100 companies from scratch. Global responsibilities included customer and partner engagements, identifying and validating target market segments, market positioning and go-to-market strategy. Started and developed a strategic relationship with the world's leading network equipment manufacturing vendor, putting Starview as a player on the Software Defined Networking (SDN) map. Show less

Joined Teknekron Software Sytems, TIBCO’s predecessor company, in 1991 where Tugrul and his team helped TIBCO’s Financial Services Industry customers pioneer the first large scale, mission critical IP-based solutions in the world.Tugrul is a co-founder of TIBCO Software, spun off from Reuters in 1997 and he was a key member of the Executive Management team that led the company to a successful IPO in 1999. In addition to establishing TIBCO as a dominant player in the telecommunications… Show more Joined Teknekron Software Sytems, TIBCO’s predecessor company, in 1991 where Tugrul and his team helped TIBCO’s Financial Services Industry customers pioneer the first large scale, mission critical IP-based solutions in the world.Tugrul is a co-founder of TIBCO Software, spun off from Reuters in 1997 and he was a key member of the Executive Management team that led the company to a successful IPO in 1999. In addition to establishing TIBCO as a dominant player in the telecommunications sector, he was also responsible for defining the networking strategies for the company’s core technology in the emerging Internet era. He established TIBCO’s relationship with Cisco as a pre-IPO investor which also led to joint technology development and high profile customer wins globally.Tugrul’s last position at TIBCO Software was VP for the company’s Global Communications Practice business unit responsible for TIBCO’s telecommunications service provider customers worldwide. Tugrul led TIBCO's entry to this market in the late 90's and turned world's leading telco operators into high value TIBCO customers. He also defined and executed TIBCO’s positioning in the mobile communications market resulting in several high profile customer wins in the early days of this evolving sector. By the end of 2007, the service provider vertical was TIBCO's #1 revenue generator with annual license revenues of $60M. Show less