Experience

Shop Up Stories

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • May 2019 - Present

  - Created and executed the retail-as-a-service (RAAS) idea to work together with Payments handling for emerging brands. - Successfully completed fundraising rounds to launch the pilot. - Launched the retail-as-a-service business model for young emerging brands - Introduced 100+ emerging brands to the market. - Managing overall product strategy and execution. - Created and executed the retail-as-a-service (RAAS) idea to work together with Payments handling for emerging brands. - Successfully completed fundraising rounds to launch the pilot. - Launched the retail-as-a-service business model for young emerging brands - Introduced 100+ emerging brands to the market. - Managing overall product strategy and execution.



Slashpay

• United Kingdom
• Retail

• Founder, Head of Product

  • May 2015 - Mar 2023

  - Created the original prototype, User Experience and UI of the product, while managing the following product iterations. - Guided the software development of B2B dashboard and mobile apps, managed the development team, overviewing and approving technical decisions. - Successfully completed fundraising activities from the pre-seed stage to follow on investments. - Signed with 20+ design events as the main Payment Service Provider, handling payments for SMEs. - Marketed and sold to… Show more - Created the original prototype, User Experience and UI of the product, while managing the following product iterations. - Guided the software development of B2B dashboard and mobile apps, managed the development team, overviewing and approving technical decisions. - Successfully completed fundraising activities from the pre-seed stage to follow on investments. - Signed with 20+ design events as the main Payment Service Provider, handling payments for SMEs. - Marketed and sold to over 400+ SMEs creating a £1M transaction volume over 15,000 transactions in less than a year - Awarded as one of the 50 Most Innovative Emerging Companies by Wirecard Germany out of 24,000 partners. - Patent on Slashpay’s unique checkout process. Show less - Created the original prototype, User Experience and UI of the product, while managing the following product iterations. - Guided the software development of B2B dashboard and mobile apps, managed the development team, overviewing and approving technical decisions. - Successfully completed fundraising activities from the pre-seed stage to follow on investments. - Signed with 20+ design events as the main Payment Service Provider, handling payments for SMEs. - Marketed and sold to… Show more - Created the original prototype, User Experience and UI of the product, while managing the following product iterations. - Guided the software development of B2B dashboard and mobile apps, managed the development team, overviewing and approving technical decisions. - Successfully completed fundraising activities from the pre-seed stage to follow on investments. - Signed with 20+ design events as the main Payment Service Provider, handling payments for SMEs. - Marketed and sold to over 400+ SMEs creating a £1M transaction volume over 15,000 transactions in less than a year - Awarded as one of the 50 Most Innovative Emerging Companies by Wirecard Germany out of 24,000 partners. - Patent on Slashpay’s unique checkout process. Show less



Collective Spark

• Istanbul, Turkey

• Venture Partner

  • Jun 2012 - May 2014

  - Participated in fundraising efforts of Collective Spark's first investment fund. - Prepared the pitch decks and ran the sales pitches, selling the hands-on approach of the fund's methodology of building and managing a team from scratch for proven scaleable business ideas. - Helped the CS core team pick the projects to invest. - Participated in fundraising efforts of Collective Spark's first investment fund. - Prepared the pitch decks and ran the sales pitches, selling the hands-on approach of the fund's methodology of building and managing a team from scratch for proven scaleable business ideas. - Helped the CS core team pick the projects to invest.



Napideal

• Consumer Services

• Founder, Executive Board Member

  • Feb 2011 - May 2014

  - Napideal is a joint investment of Hakki and the leading daily deal site of Turkey, Grupanya (backed by Intel Capital). - Built the team to replicate the idea execution from scratch - Entered the Hungarian market quite late as the number 75th player, passed 72 of its competitors and become number 3. - Napideal is a joint investment of Hakki and the leading daily deal site of Turkey, Grupanya (backed by Intel Capital). - Built the team to replicate the idea execution from scratch - Entered the Hungarian market quite late as the number 75th player, passed 72 of its competitors and become number 3.



Türk Dijital

• Founder and CEO

  • Dec 2003 - Dec 2010

  Shazam - Established a joint venture with Shazam (Acquired by Apple) to offer music recognition services to Turkey as NeBuCalan. - Created award winning entertainment experiences from scratch reaching 1.3M+ paying customers via Turkcell, Turkey's leading mobile operator. - Designed UX interactions of event activities involving 1000s of users per minute. - Exited to Turkcell. PowerClub - Established Turkey's first and biggest digital music store PowerClub, together with… Show more Shazam - Established a joint venture with Shazam (Acquired by Apple) to offer music recognition services to Turkey as NeBuCalan. - Created award winning entertainment experiences from scratch reaching 1.3M+ paying customers via Turkcell, Turkey's leading mobile operator. - Designed UX interactions of event activities involving 1000s of users per minute. - Exited to Turkcell. PowerClub - Established Turkey's first and biggest digital music store PowerClub, together with Power Music Group that owned 4 radios and 1 music television. PowerClub reached more than 1.5M customers, buying 3M+ songs. - Created award winning new interactive entertainment experiences from scratch for international brands including Pepsi, Burger King, Fritolay, Unicredit Bank, Nokia and Motorola. - Exited to Power Group. Soundklan - Founded Turkey's first music based social network and music streaming service. - Created the innovative UX for the first of its kind browser based music player. - Received Seed investment from Turkey's first technology focused venture fund. - Awarded the Interactive Entrepreneur of the Year and represented Turkey in London. Show less Shazam - Established a joint venture with Shazam (Acquired by Apple) to offer music recognition services to Turkey as NeBuCalan. - Created award winning entertainment experiences from scratch reaching 1.3M+ paying customers via Turkcell, Turkey's leading mobile operator. - Designed UX interactions of event activities involving 1000s of users per minute. - Exited to Turkcell. PowerClub - Established Turkey's first and biggest digital music store PowerClub, together with… Show more Shazam - Established a joint venture with Shazam (Acquired by Apple) to offer music recognition services to Turkey as NeBuCalan. - Created award winning entertainment experiences from scratch reaching 1.3M+ paying customers via Turkcell, Turkey's leading mobile operator. - Designed UX interactions of event activities involving 1000s of users per minute. - Exited to Turkcell. PowerClub - Established Turkey's first and biggest digital music store PowerClub, together with Power Music Group that owned 4 radios and 1 music television. PowerClub reached more than 1.5M customers, buying 3M+ songs. - Created award winning new interactive entertainment experiences from scratch for international brands including Pepsi, Burger King, Fritolay, Unicredit Bank, Nokia and Motorola. - Exited to Power Group. Soundklan - Founded Turkey's first music based social network and music streaming service. - Created the innovative UX for the first of its kind browser based music player. - Received Seed investment from Turkey's first technology focused venture fund. - Awarded the Interactive Entrepreneur of the Year and represented Turkey in London. Show less



Nokta Media

• Türkiye
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager

  • Jun 2000 - Jun 2003

  - Focused on mobile app development for operators. Managed one of the very early companies who started signing mobile revenue sharing agreements in 2001. - Holds SMS traffic record for Turkcell in 2003. - Created projects for Vodafone Germany. - Finalist for World's Best Mobile Entertainment Application, Ericsson World Mobility Awards. - Awarded for the technology leader by readers' vote of Capital Magazine, in Mobile Internet Category. - Focused on mobile app development for operators. Managed one of the very early companies who started signing mobile revenue sharing agreements in 2001. - Holds SMS traffic record for Turkcell in 2003. - Created projects for Vodafone Germany. - Finalist for World's Best Mobile Entertainment Application, Ericsson World Mobility Awards. - Awarded for the technology leader by readers' vote of Capital Magazine, in Mobile Internet Category.



Netbul

• General Manager

  • Jan 2000 - Jun 2000

  - Turkey's first Turkish search engine. - Managed editorial and visual content creation for the search engine. - Managed Turkey’s first search engine ad campaign on major networks. - Acquired by Vodafone (Telsim). - Turkey's first Turkish search engine. - Managed editorial and visual content creation for the search engine. - Managed Turkey’s first search engine ad campaign on major networks. - Acquired by Vodafone (Telsim).



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consultant, CRM

  • Sep 1997 - Dec 1999



Coopers & Lybrand Consulting

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jul 1995 - Sep 1997