Murat Aktihanoglu

Current

Organizer at Entrepreneurs Roundtable
Founder&CEO at Centrl Inc.
Founder at Holoscape Inc.

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Past

Technical Lead at Silicon Graphics
Software Development Manager at Caice Corporation

Education

Bilkent Üniversitesi
Bilkent Üniversitesi

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Murat Aktihanoglu’s Summary

I am the founder and CEO of Centrl Inc, a funded location-based social networking startup based in New York City:
http://centrl.com

I am also the organizer of "Entrepreneurs Roundtable", a monthly meeting of entrepreneurs and investors in NYC:
http://eroundtable.net

I am also co-authoring a book on "Location Based Services" for Manning, due out in 2010.

I have an M.S. degree in Computer Science and have spent 15 years building 3D web applications at Silicon Graphics Inc, Web3D Consortium, Sony Corp(San Jose and Tokyo) and my own company Holoscape Inc. I was one of the contributors to the X3D standard and have been involved with many startups in 3D web and rich-media space.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/muratny
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Resume:
http://www.holoscape.com/resume.htm

Objective: To conceptualize and implement the best next-generation software applications for internet-enabled media-rich systems using my skills and expertise in object-oriented system architecture, C++, 3D graphics, multimedia systems, internet technologies and software engineering for platforms ranging from MS Windows, Linux to embedded platforms such as PlayStation2, PSP, set-top boxes, etc.

Murat Aktihanoglu’s Specialties:

* Startups, entrepreneurship, fundraising, operations, strategy
* Architecting desktop apps and scalable web systems
* Computer Graphics expert
* Engineering, C++, Java, PHP, MySql, Javascript, etc.
* Social networking APIs, expert in Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, OpenSocial, Friendster, Ning, Orkut
* Location-based services expert

Murat Aktihanoglu’s Experience

Organizer

Entrepreneurs Roundtable

(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Entrepreneurs Roundtable is a free monthly gathering of entrepreneurs and investors in New York City. Every month, we have a valuable VC join us to answer our questions and give feedback on our startup pitches.
http://eroundtable.net
Founder&CEO

Centrl Inc.

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Centrl is a location-based social networking platform that integrates all existing social networks into one easy-to-use platform. We have 600,000 users as of October 2009 on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and web.
Founder

Holoscape Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

March 1999 — Present (10 years 9 months)

http://www.holoscape.com/resume.htm
Software Consulting Company specializing in Computer Graphics and Media Systems.
I was in Tokyo between September 2003 and April 2005, consulting for Sony Corp. on 3D and media systems development for various platforms.
Currently I am in New York. After working on an open-source 3d game/visualization engine for the internet: Emma3D - http://www.emma3d.org, now I am working on Unype: a location-based social networking platform: http://unype.com
Technical Lead

Silicon Graphics

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Software Development Manager

Caice Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1992 — March 1996 (3 years 5 months)

Murat Aktihanoglu’s Education

Bilkent Üniversitesi

M.S. in C.S. , Computer Graphics , 1990 — 1992

More information: http://www.sciam.com/turkey/4.cfm
Bilkent Üniversitesi

B.S.in E.E. , Electrics and Electronics Engineering , 1986 — 1990