Ilknur Cifcibasi

Country Manager | Enterprise Sales | Technology & Cyber Security | Mentor | Ex-Microsoft

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

As the Regional Sales Director, I lead the sales strategy and execution for financial institutions, leveraging my extensive experience and network in the banking, manufacturing and retail sectors. I also co-founded and invested in Yeni Nesil HR, an executive search company that provides talent solutions for various industries. With over 20 years of sales experience, I have a proven track record of growing business and revenue, managing key accounts in Enterprise world, and developing strategic partnerships. I have successfully delivered complex and innovative projects involving cloud, IoT, AI, CRM, Virtualization and automation technologies, earning multiple awards and recognitions from Microsoft, Turk Telekom My motto is to build trustworthy relationships with customers and partners, rather than focusing on single transactions. Specialties: Regional Sales in Finance, Strategic Enterprise Sales, Channel Sales, Partner Management, Business Development, Team Management, Product Sales in Technology, Cloud Sales, IoT, AI, Automation Projects, Digital Marketing, Mentor for StartUps

Experience

  • Country Manager, Turkiye & Azerbaijan at Barracuda
    Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

  • Founder at Kutay Consultancy & Yeni Nesil HR.
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Yeni Nesil HR is a Executive Talent Search & Recruitment company who concentrates on HUMAN and acts with a vision of right candidate for right role. Our Turkey's top holding companies in different industries appreciated us for our recruitment capabilities.

  • Enterprise Sales Manager at Kaspersky
    Jan 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Faculty Lecturer at Özyeğin University
    Oct 2024 - Jan 2025 · 4 mos

    Garanti Bank's 'How Banking industry can be attractive for GENZ ?' Project was delivered through the semester. 4 teams totally 20 students competed with themselves to be selected as the best of best :)

  • Regional Sales Director at VeriPark
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    VeriPark (top Microsoft Partner- Global with 1000 people in 19 offices in 16 countries ) is a global solutions provider enabling financial institutions to become digital leaders by placing Customer Experience at the core of digital transformation.  Developing business in UAE for Top 20 Banks in MEA  Helping customers for their digital journey with consultative solution selling approach  Transforming banks with Digital solutions by increasing customer engagement  Following multi-million dollars projects and realizing targets successfully  Working with Regional Partners & System Integrator in UAE and Philippines ( Finastra, Mambo, PwC , SyncPulse, Thought Machine, Adobe etc ) Reporting to CEO