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Turkish Economy: Attracting Foreign Investments

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Securing Your High-Tech Investment: Comparing US & Turkey

US Firms with Prominent Turkish-American Management

Investments into Digital Media & Telecommunications in Turkey

Technology Development in Turkey: Industry and Academy Collaboration

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TABCON 2005

TABCON 2006 Award Recipient

TABC is honored to welcome Mr. Bülent Çelebi one more time to TABCON, this time as our first annual TABCON Award Recipient due to his ground-breaking work and impressive success with AirTies Networks in Istanbul, Turkey since he founded the company in February of 2004. His influential career within the Silicon Valley community and success in taking his experience back home while creating job opportunities within the telecommunications market in Turkey are only few of the reasons for TABC to present this award to Mr. Çelebi - we are pleased to have him as part of TABCON 2006.

Bülent Çelebi - Founder & President, AirTies Networks

Mr. Çelebi started first 10 years of his impressive career at National Semiconductor. He was the founder of the technology which enabled digital messages to be sent across the telephone lines. This enabled National to become the first company to add fax abilities to a printer. He also helped National to become the leader in 10/100 Mbps Ethernet market. At National, he also served as the VP of Sales responsible for the Asian markets. After National, he served as a Vice President at Analog Devices. Later he served as the CEO for Ubicom where he was able to direct the company towards producing devices supporting Wireless LAN equipment that brought $15 million in revenue in a short period of time. Ubicom was able to hold partnerships with Cisco and Dell. After his success at Ubicom, he was selected as one of the top 10 entrepreneurs of 2002 by Red Herring magazine. Mr.Çelebi holds a B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

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Participating Companies

Aegean Free Zone
Anadolu Holding
AveA
DiTech Communications Inc.
Fairchild Semiconductor Inc.
Golden Gate Software Inc.
Inovent at GOSB Technopark
İstanbul Chamber of Commerce
Netlogic Microsystems
Sabancι Holding
Sabancι University
The Tech Group
TIBCO Software
Verkata Inc.
Yoriwa Inc.
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