Zeynep Sarılar

Biography

Zeynep Sarilar has been Chairwoman of ITEA, the EUREKA Cluster on software intensive systems and services, since 1 February 2016. As an Electrical and Electronics Engineering graduate, she worked on both sides of the Atlantic in software and system design before co-founding Mobilera, a leading CRM-based mobile marketing and advertising company, in 2001. She has leadership skills depending on over 28 years of experience as leader of different kinds of support departments, projects and programmes about software systems, networking and advertising. She also has more than 20 years of experience in capacity building and strategy planning for many cooperation and projects. In 2013, she initiated GEMİM, a Centre for Entrepreneurship Training and Incubation. She worked as a consultant for Pera EEMEA, providing consultancy services for national and international funding projects and coordinating a Growth Accelerator Programme between 2013 and 2016. Zeynep founded Actuate Innovation Corporate in 2016 in Bulgaria and Turkey. Tagged as a “Pioneer” in multiple companies during corporate life and currently designing and executing programs on Innovation and Acceleration for Start-ups, SMEs and universities. She is also training other mentors and guiding them. She is founder and Chair of NetBAN (New and Emerging Technologies Business Angel Network Association) and the Institute for Future Research (Gelecek Araştırmaları Enstitüsü).

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