CIO, EVP, and fintech founder with a 30-year track record scaling engineering organisations, modernising core banking platforms, and translating deep technical strategy into commercial outcomes — across 10 international banking entities.
I started as a software engineer and spent three decades working my way to the top of banking technology — not through management ladders, but by building things that actually worked. Core banking systems. Digital platforms. Engineering organisations. All from scratch, all at scale, all in highly regulated European and international markets.
At Nexent Bank I spent 17 years as Global Head of IT and CIO, leading 200+ engineers across 10 entities through one of the most ambitious technology transformations in European banking.
Before that, I founded IBTECH — the fintech company that became the technology backbone of one of Turkey's largest banks — and successfully exited through integration into QNB.
Now I am channelling that operator perspective into the next frontier — founding Coopetition.AI to help enterprises harness agentic AI. From deploying autonomous agents and MCP servers to automating complex workflows, I translate deep technology experience into practical AI services that deliver measurable business outcomes.
Designed, built, and operated a cloud-native, multi-tenant core banking platform — 1,000+ UI screens, multi-currency, multi-language, multi-timezone — replacing 10 separate legacy systems across a 500+ branch network.
Enterprise-wide transformation from waterfall to fully automated DevSecOps with CI/CD and daily production deployments — compressing release cycles from months to days across 200+ engineers.
Founded IBTECH, built the engineering team from zero, delivered core banking and internet banking solutions across 10 entities, and completed a successful exit through integration into QNB (Qatar National Bank).
Designed and built one of the first Java-based core banking platforms in the industry — modular, service-oriented, high-availability architecture now serving 20+ international banks.
Whether you're building a banking technology platform, navigating a transformation, or looking for a strategic partner — I would welcome a direct conversation.