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Ahmet Alpdemir

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Ahmet Alpdemir is a C level leader, business management coach and consultant with over 25 years of experience in transforming technology into profits. His experience spans from entrepreneurship and early stage venture investments to corporate P&L management, business development, sales and marketing in high-tech companies that continue to change the world.

Most recently he has:

• Integrated and ran global business units spread across 9 countries on 3 continents resulting from merging different businesses to create a $1 billion wireless high-tech company
• Grew the post-merger revenues by 29% with on-target gross margins in the first 12 months
• Led the research team and delivered the first long term technology roadmap of a $2 billion company within 4 weeks
• Successfully negotiated and closed 2 software company acquisitions, 5 investment rounds
• Grew startup product revenues from $0 to $25 million leading to $5 million in funding from top Silicon Valley VCs
• Increased product line revenue by 300% over three years to $100 million
• Founded a SaaS company and raised $1.25 million from private investors in the period following the March 2000 stock market crash and invented new CRM methods (US Patents 6,658,389 & 6,934,684)

Throughout his career Ahmet has been able to identify disruptive changes and take action to exploit them

Recent Milestones

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  Ahmet Alpdemir added a position as Product Manager at Intel.
  Posted 12/4/08 at 11:41am
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  Ahmet Alpdemir added a position as Marketing Manager at Chips and Technologies.
  Posted 12/4/08 at 11:41am
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  Ahmet Alpdemir added a position as VP Business Development & General Manager at Vadem.
  Posted 12/4/08 at 11:41am
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  Ahmet Alpdemir added a position as CEO & President at Dialsurf.
  Posted 12/4/08 at 11:41am
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  Ahmet Alpdemir added a position as Management Consultant & Coach at Shimdi Venture Advisors.
  Posted 12/4/08 at 11:41am

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