Semih Demirtoka

Director of Business Development

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Director of Business Development at Quantum3D, Inc.
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Lead business development and strategic growth initiatives for Quantum3D’s simulation, image generation, and training solutions across defense, aviation, and emerging mobility sectors. • Drive opportunity development, capture strategy, partner engagement, and customer outreach for domestic and international markets. • Build and manage strategic partnerships, channel relationships, and teaming structures to support market expansion and complex program pursuits. • Develop commercial positioning and go-to-market strategies for advanced simulation solutions, including image generation, sensor simulation, UAV/UAS training, and mixed-reality applications. • Support proposals, negotiations, and customer engagements spanning government, military, training, and industrial stakeholders. • Represent the company at major industry events, conferences, and business meetings to increase market presence and generate qualified pipeline. • Collaborate cross-functionally with executive, technical, legal, and product teams to align business strategy with customer needs and long-term growth objectives.

  • Executive Board Member at BİYOTEKSAN
    Mar 2022 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • HAVELSAN (Ankara, Türkiye)
    • Vice President, Corporate Excellence
      Apr 2021 - Mar 2025 · 4 yrs

      • Reported directly to the CEO and led enterprise-wide corporate excellence, governance, and strategic support functions. • Supervised a broad portfolio including Corporate Information Technologies, Information Systems Management and IT Security, Corporate Strategy, R&D and Subsidiary Management, Quality and Process Management, Test Engineering, Corporate Communications, Procurement and Ecosystem Management, Facility Security, Facilities Management and Administrative Services, and Construction and Maintenance Management. •Directed HAVELSAN’s corporate IT and information systems strategy, aligning technology, security, operations, and business priorities. •Chaired HAVELSAN’s Cybersecurity Committee, leading assessment of emerging threats, evaluation of new security technologies, and executive coordination of implementation decisions. •Led corporate strategy development through broad top-down and bottom-up participation across the company. •Oversaw R&D management and strategy, aligning innovation priorities with corporate goals and long-term capability development. •Supervised subsidiary management and strategy to ensure alignment with corporate priorities and growth objectives. •Led quality and process management to strengthen governance, process maturity, discipline, and continuous improvement. •Oversaw test engineering to support quality assurance, verification rigor, and enterprise-wide testing capability. •Directed corporate communications to strengthen institutional messaging, visibility, and leadership alignment. •Oversaw procurement and ecosystem management, including supplier coordination and external partner alignment. •Supervised facility security, facilities management, administrative services, and construction/maintenance to ensure secure, effective, and uninterrupted operations. •Represented HAVELSAN in senior-level engagements with customers, subcontractors, government bodies, official institutions, universities, and other strategic stakeholders.

    • Advisor To Chief Executive Officer
      Jul 2020 - Apr 2021 · 10 mos

  • Manager at Government Agency
    Feb 2015 - May 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • Central Anatolia Development Agency (Kayseri, Türkiye)
    • Head of Project and Business Development
      Jan 2013 - Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Head of Planning, Programming and Coordination Department
      May 2010 - Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos