Location Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Male
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For the last 15 years, I held various co-founding / management roles in startups and multi-national companies in sales, marketing, finance and game publishing Completed my education in Turkey and sealed with an MBA in USA. Trained in Lehman Brothers and continued working as an investment banker before I returned to Turkey.
Upon my return, I
worked for a securities firm called Kent Yatirim, selling / trading Turkish equities to foreign investors. After market crises, my entrepreneurship flare kicked and ventured into F&B business. Opened and successfully exited two chain restaurants in Istanbul.
The following years, I have launched and grew e-commerce / mobility businesses in Saudi Arabia including Fursaty, Foodonclick and Mondo taxi. Foodonclick (subsidiary of yemeksepeti) was acquired by Delivery Hero for 690M USD.
I returned to corporate life as the business development director of Zingat, a real estate listing platform, subsidiary of Dogus Holding. Established new revenue channels and products combining / optimizing data both from Zingat and Dogus Holding. Gradually pumped the revenues from new businesses thus increasing the total revenue up to %35.
Beginning of 2019 I was introduced to online gaming business and stated working for Ingame. I was responsible for business development and publishing the games in ME and LATAM. Successfully launched / scaled the games in the regions building substantial amount of new users, market share and incremental revenue.
I have been in blockchain / crypto rabbit-hole since two years. I have invested in coins, ICO’s and IGO’s through swaps, exchanges and launchpads. I have staked coins, earned interests and borrow assets through liquidity protocols like Aave and also invested in many NFT projects.
Currently I am working on a blockchain game, helping web2 gaming studios migrating to web3 and creating compelling partnership initiatives in web3 space. I am also guiding some brands on how to create, launch and scale successful NFT projects.
