Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye
With over 23 years of work experience in the cloud and enterprise domain, I am a passionate leader, strategist, and architect who thrives on solving complex business problems with innovative and scalable solutions. My mission is to enable customers, partners, and teams to achieve more with Microsoft Azure, the leading cloud platform in the world. I have a strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, application development, data platforms, analytics, and AI, as well as hybrid cloud and server platforms. I am currently leading the Microsoft Azure Core, Customer Success Unit, Southeast Europe, where I oversee the delivery of high-quality technical services and support to our customers and partners. In my previous role as the Solution Sales Director for Microsoft Azure, Hybrid Cloud, and Server Platforms, I was responsible for driving Azure adoption and expansion in the major and strategic accounts, building partner capacity, executing sales motions, leading multi-domain scrums, and developing national hybrid cloud strategy. I led a group of highly talented cloud solution sales professionals who had expertise in various cloud domains and specialized solutions, such as SAP on Azure. I leveraged my analytical and agile skills to identify customer needs, design optimal solutions, and manage complex projects. I also contributed to the National AI Plan, the digital native acquisition and growth strategy, and the internal and external enablement programs.
Responsible for adoption and growth of Microsoft's most strategic platform Azure's all core services in South East Europe, 14 countries including Turkey. Leading a group of senior cloud solution architects who are the undisputable experts in their domain. Landing strategic programs, owning consumption plans for our most strategic customers, owning pipeline accuracy including pipeline generation, building frameworks around replicable deliveries, collaborating each and every group related to Azure adoption and growth are some of my new responsibilities for the entire region. In addition to my core role priorities, I am also accountable for strategic initiatives such as South East Technical Community.
Leading a group of highly talented cloud solution sales professionals with expertise in cloud infrastructure, application development platforms, data platforms, analytics & ai and specialized solutions e.g. SAP on Azure. Responsible for Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud platforms adoption and expansion in the major and strategic customers, partner capacity building, sales motions execution, driving multi-domain scrums, national hybrid cloud strategy, driving new business and growth in cloud platforms and server platforms.
I have worked as an Enterprise Architect where we were positioning core banking software and platforms for different banks. In this role, I was responsible for digital channels, payment platforms and integration layers.