Team

Uğur Mutluhan Oruncak, a member of Eksim Ventures Investment Committee, started his career in Türkiye with TRT and continued his career in Canada and the USA with Nortel Networks, Mitel Corporation, DMR Consulting and Empirix/Oracle. After returning to Türkiye, he held senior management positions as Corporate Marketing Director at Türk Telekom Group and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Türk Telekom International. Mr. Oruncak is the Head of Strategy and Business Development at Eksim Holding and a Board Member at Yolcu360, a joint venture of Eksim Holding.

Uğur Mutluhan Oruncak holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from METU and an MBA from McGill University.

Mr. Bahadır started his professional career as a Project Coordination Engineer at Enka and gained experience in business development and sales activities as well as field experience in various companies related to construction chemicals. In 2017, he started working as Project Manager/Supplier Development at EUAS International in the Energy sector. Since 2020, he has been working as M&A Senior Specialist at Eksim Holding's Strategy and Business Development Department.

Bahadır graduated from ITU Civil Engineering Department and completed his master's degree in Business Administration at Galatasaray University in 2017.

Inalcan Güleç started his career at Avea in 2007 at the Corporate Sales Support team. Afterwards, he worked as a Sales-Marketing Specialist at Fer Mas, Ferrari and Maserati Türkiye Distributor in 2008. Following his master's degree, he worked as Marketing Manager at Hilton Worldwide's Regional Marketing Office for Eastern Europe, Israel, Türkiye, Russia and CIS between 2012 and 2015. Afterwards, he worked as Commercial Marketing Manager and Corporate Segment Manager at Vodafone Türkiye between 2015 and 2020, and as of 2020, he worked as Business Development Manager in charge of Commercial Operations at an Estonia-based SaaS software startup. Mr. Güleç is currently working as a Senior Investment Partner at Eksim Ventures.

Mr. Güleç completed his secondary education at Robert College and received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Boğaziçi University.

Ali Halit Pehlivanoğlu is a Senior Investment Associate at Eksim Ventures. He started his career in 2016 at Eksun A.Ş., a subsidiary of Eksim Holding, in the Foreign Trade department and worked with the Assistant General Manager later on. In 2019, he held the position of International Store Merchandiser at LC Waikiki and managed all product-side processes of the group in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iraq, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Hungary, Croatia and Poland.

He holds a bachelor's degree in International Trade from Boğaziçi University. He speaks English and Spanish.

Ahmet Berk Tekin, an Investment Analyst at Eksim Ventures, started his career as ERP, Oracle, SQL Support Specialist at iThinka Information Technologies in 2018. At the beginning of 2022, he started his career at Eksim Ventures.

He started his education at Syndey Technology University and then graduated from Istanbul Technical University as an Industrial Engineer. He works on analytical data in the investment sector.