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Tamer Karaman

Chief Financial Officer

Aşkın Güzel

CEO / Co-Founder

With over 20 years of international entrepreneurial experience, he drives growth strategies across food production, enterprise SaaS, and telecom infrastructure. As co-founder of companies including Talya Smart, TSmart Marine, Ekofood, and TAG Food, he has led market expansion into more than 40 countries.

Volkan Öztaş

Chief Investment Officer

Volkan Öztaş is an entrepreneur focused on AI, renewable energy, M&A, and angel investing, affiliated with Mobicon Networks. He is a graduate of Middle East Technical University (METU).

Faruk Karagöl

CTO

With over 30 years of experience in IT and telecommunications, he has held technology leadership roles at companies including ZTE, Türk Telekom (Avea), and Akbank. As CTO at Talya Smart, he leads the software development teams and web/mobile product processes.

Mustafa Mat

Chief AI Officer

Mustafa Mat is the Founder and GM of Technoplatz IT Solutions GmbH, based in Düsseldorf, Germany. He is a graduate of Hacettepe University.

Merve Kılıç

Global Executive Coordinator

She gained experience in executive assistance and sales and marketing at hotel groups including Raffles Dubai, Çırağan Palace Kempinski, and InterContinental Istanbul. Since 2024, she has supported the CEO's office at Talya Global as Global Executive Coordinator.

Geylani Özcubukcu

Board Advisor

Geylani Özcubukcu is a Senior Project and Product Management leader with 20+ years of cross-sector experience and PMP, PSPO I, and PMI-ACP certifications. He currently works as an AI Evaluation Domain Expert for a frontier AI research lab and as Senior Project Manager on Turkey's national organ transplant network (TDİS) at Fonet BT.

Batuhan Saygın

Project Manager / Backend Dev

With a background in software development using C#, ASP.NET, and Python, he has held project management and backend developer roles at Ekofood and various companies. He has served as Project Manager / Backend Developer at Tsmart.ai since April 2024.

Fatih Şipka

Full-stack Developer

With 17 years of experience in software development, he works on full-stack development using .NET, EF Core, and Next.js, along with CI/CD and DevOps processes. He has served as Full-stack Developer at Talya Smart since May 2024.

Mert Okan

Frontend Developer (React)

He develops frontend applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. He works as a Frontend Developer at Talya Smart.

Boran Küpçü

Software Developer

Experienced in international sales and marketing, he managed European market expansion strategies at Parksistem and represented the company at numerous international trade fairs. He is the founder of Scala-MDO, an AI-driven venture that automates store management on marketplaces such as Etsy, Shopify, and Amazon.

Ata Ege Aşıltürk

Jr Backend Developer (Stajyer)

He works on backend development using NestJS, .NET, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL. He has served as a Backend Developer intern at Talya Smart since June 2025.

Nazlı Hilal Özer

Stajyer - Frontend Developer

She is doing an internship in frontend development using Vue.js, Nuxt.js, and React. She contributes to the Talya Smart team remotely from Poland as a Frontend Developer intern.