Founder
"No network, no capital, no one who could open a door. Instead: an unreasonable amount of stubbornness."
Grew up in a Turkish working-class family in Germany. Three degrees -- IT from Heidelberg/Hyderabad, eCommerce from Sydney, MBA from Hamburg. All summa cum laude. Strategy consulting at IBM before founding his first company.
upvalue, eComCon, klaro media -- built, scaled, exited. Today running Sovereign Media across 27 countries and dangerously.ai as an enterprise AI taskforce. Heavily invested into AI funds and startups.
Raised four kids while building companies. Knows what it feels like when Friday night the account is tight and Monday morning payroll goes out.