Moderators (in alphabetical order)
 

• Kerim Baran, "Turkish Media, Internet & Telecom Sector"
  CEO, yonja.com
  Mr. Baran has led Yonja from inception in 2003 to its current state. Yonja.com became one of the leading provider of international online social networking services shortly after its launch in January 2004. Yonja.com achieved consistent membership growth and is currently ranked in top 10 Turkish websites and is one of the most visited websites in the world with 7 million page views and 200,000 plus logins per day. Prior to founding Yonja, Kerim worked in business development at Siebel Systems. He drove efforts to grow Siebel’s business with key Global Strategic Consulting Partners such as CSC, KPMG and Deloitte. He joined Siebel from Bain & Company. At Bain, Kerim led projects advising Fortune 1000 Companies on a variety of sales, marketing and product development issues, with particular focus in the technology and service industries. Prior to Bain, Kerim helped to launch the US operations of SDP, a European Software Company that was acquired by Sybase. Kerim earned his MBA degree from Harvard Business School and holds a B.Sc. degree from Northwestern University in Industrial Engineering.
   
  

• Aydın Koç, "Lessons Learned: Getting Your Company Funded"
  Board Member, TABCON
  Mr. Koç is the former President and CEO of BitBlitz Communications, a venture-funded semiconductor start-up. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of ZiLOG's Home Entertainment Group and the President of the Optical Storage Group at Oak Technology. Mr. Koç also spent about a decade in increasingly responsible management positions at LSI Logic Corp. During the 1980's, he worked as an international management consultant at Boston Consulting Group and Booz, Allen & Hamilton, advising Fortune 1000 companies. He is a valedictorian of Tarsus American College in Turkey, has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics Engineering with high honors from Middle East Technical University and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been in the Bay Area and active in the Turkish-American community for the last 20 years. Presently, he is an independent business strategy consultant to high-tech companies.
   
  

• Paul Mockapetris, "Successful Turkish Executives & Entrepreneurs in US"
  Chairman & Chief Scientist, Nominum Inc.
  Mr. Mockapetris invented Domain Name System (DNS) in the 1980s at USC’s Information Sciences Institute where he was later the Director of ISI’s High Performance Computing and Communications Division. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the computing research community and to the evolution of the Internet. His earliest work at UC Irvine on distributed systems and LAN technology preceded the commercial Ethernet and Token Ring designs. Mr. Mockapetris has been associated with the IETF since its creation, chaired several DNS and non-DNS working groups, and was the chair of IETF from 1994 to 1996. He was program manager for networking at ARPA in the early 1990s, supervising efforts such as gigabit and optical networking. From 1995 on, he held leadership roles at several Silicon Valley networking startups, including @Home, Software.com (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), and Siara (now Redback Networks). His mission at Nominum is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage. Mr. Mockapetris has dual B.Sc. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
   
  

• Özalp Özer, "Characteristics of an Entrepreneur"
  Professor, Management Science & Engineering Dept. - Stanford University
  Professor Ozer is a faculty member of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an industry-academic consortium to advance the theory and practice of global supply chain management. His areas of specialization include supply chain management, eBusiness, global production and logistics system design, inventory planning, manufacturing strategy, and pricing and revenue management. His articles have appeared in academic journals such as Management Science. Professor Ozer has received several awards such as the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishment Award in 2004. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of journals and serves on National Science Foundation Committees. He has been invited to give seminars in numerous conferences and forums. He is also an active consultant to industry and has consulted companies including Ericsson, General Motors, IBM, HP and Lehman Brothers. Dr. Ozer received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, his M.S degrees in Financial Engineering and Operations Research, and his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research all from Columbia University, where he also taught courses in Financial Engineering.
   
  

• Tunay Tunca, "Opportunities in Emerging Markets"
  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business - Stanford University
  Prof. Tunca received his B.Sc. in Mathematics & Electrical Engineering from Boğaziçi University, Turkey and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Rochester and Stanford. His research interests are structure and analysis of industrial and financial exchanges, interaction of supply chain and markets, information economics. 
   
  
  
  
  

• Alper Turgut, "Turkish High-Tech Sector & Outsourcing"
  President & CEO, Verkata Inc.
  Mr. Turgut is a technology entrepreneur and business development executive. In his most recent venture Aligo Inc., he co-founded the company, raised over $24 Million from silicon Valley venture funds and strategic partners including Motorola as a strategic investor. His venture was most recently featured in Newsweek Special Edition, and received numerous prestigious awards such as Red Herring Magazine's "Most Likely to Succeed" Award, "Wireless Ventures Awards" (two years in a row), Java Developers Journal "Blue Ribbon" and "Best Product" Awards. Mr. Turgut led customer acquisition efforts focusing on multi-million strategic accounts and OEM deals. He closed flagship software licensing deals with Sun Microsystems, Motorola and Nextel. Alper pioneered international expansions and opened up offices in Japan closing major distribution deals with NTI (joint venture between NTT and Itochu), Kanematsu Communications, Fuji Electric, and TechMatrix corporation. Previously, He was a strategic management consultant with McKinsey and Company in New York focusing on e-business software strategy and financial services working with Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Turgut received his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management concentrating on strategic management and finance. He holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from Northeastern University and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey.
   
  

• Olcay Ungun, "Going Back To Turkey"
  Board Member, TABC & TABCON; VP of Business Dev., Entek Controls Inc.
  Mr. Ungun is a partner and VP of Business Development at Entek Controls, a custom electronics design and manufacturing company. His expertise is in B2B marketing of technical products. He has held several marketing positions at Raychem Corporation and later at JDS Uniphase SDL division in the United Staes and in France. Before that he worked at Cam Elyaf Sanayi at Çayırova Turkey as Plant Manager. Mr. Ungun graduated from Middle East Technical University Chemical Engineering Department and attended Harvard Business School Strategic Marketing program.
   
  
  
  

  TABCON 2005 Speaker List