He developed an early passion for engineering and management studies. With dual citizenship in Canada and Turkey, he has a deep understanding of both cultures. His career has taken him across the globe, where he has contributed to business structuring and market development in countries such as the UK, the USA, Canada, India, South Africa, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Kazakhstan. Through his dynamic and evolving career, he has gained extensive international experience in strategy, management, and cross-cultural business operations, working with diverse perspectives and industries across various regions. (Linkedin). 

 

He spearheaded a technology transfer initiative from Canada to a major telecom firm in Turkey, later ascending to the role of director for the newly created department. Beyond that, he has lent his expertise to several organizations in Canada, including Honeywell Aerospace Division, Mitel Corporation, Nortel Corporation, and Intellitech Corporation (USA), serving in capacities such as regional manager, project manager, system engineer, and telecom hardware and software development, simulation, and design engineer.

 

While serving as the investment director of a company in Turkey, he led a due diligence project on an energy company at MIT in the USA and another project to acquire a wind energy plant in Canada. In addition, he was responsible for solar plant investments in Bulgaria and South Africa.  

 

It was the most exciting time for his career when he served as founder and GM for structuring and building an expert energy plant design and development team (using Intergraph® SmartPlant® SW tools) from the ground up in Hyderabad, India, building the new organization with 13 engineers, an HR manager, and one finance manager. See the article here.

 

He was a founding member of an energy startup that worked on the Fischer-Tropsch process, solar thermal technology with high-temperature storage, and environmentally friendly plywood production from municipal waste in Jersey, Channel Islands.

 

Later, he served as an executive and GM of Afrasia Corporation, a UK/South Africa-based energy & mining consultancy company, and AMEJamieson, a sister company and a joint venture of Afrasia and Jamison Management Consultancy of Australia, providing full-fledged technical services from exploration to mining closures in the mining sector in the region. See articles here and here.

 

A few projects he led are (1) corporate and technology due diligence of an energy startup at MIT, USA; (2) project management of acquisition of a wind energy plant in Canada; (3) a project manager working on resolving issues between P&G USA and its supplier in Turkey, traveled to the USA and met and interviewed several third-party service providers in different states for a proper resolution of issues; (4) project coordinator at an EBRD project called "Early Stage Geothermal Support Framework: Pipeline Preparation, Risk Mitigation, Environmental Support, and Project Development Programme; (5) project coordinator at a Ministry of Environment and Urbanization project called PMR Turkey, Roadmap for the Consideration of Establishment and Operation of a Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions Trading System in Turkey.

 

He was an invited speaker at the 16th International Conference on Green Energy and Sustainability in Paris, France (2020) and the International Sustainable Buildings Symposium in Dallas, Texas, USA (2019). He is also the author of several articles on energy, mining, emerging technologies, and blockchain; please see them here or click Rubik's Cube to explore other documents. 

 

His focus areas are diverse and cover many interlinked issues concerning our planet and people.  For example, he has significant interests in sustainability and sustainable development, like energy, i.e., SMRs and renewables, carbon emission mitigation, climate change, and emerging technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrencies, AI, business finance, strategy, and management intertwined with all those.

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SOME LATEST WORK

He recently created a financial model, valuation, and pitch deck for a coffee chain company to start its business in the USA. Second, he put together a market research report concerning the global airline business and aircraft seat market for a startup.  Finally, he has been consulting one of Turkey's leading food manufacturing companies to invest in a startup designing a compressor patented (in the USA and Europe) by an MIT graduate (Ph.D.).

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He is the runner of six international marathons, including NYC.

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