Sidar Sahin

Current

• CEO at ThirdClick Inc

Past

• Business Development Manager / Founder at GameGarden Inc
• Founder at Izlesene.com
• International Business Consultant & China Country Manager at Mynet Inc

• Head of Mobile Games & Services at Mynet Inc
• Managing Director / Founder at funpac mobile
• Project Manager at doubleCLICK / Interfinal
• CC & System at Turk Nokta Net

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Education

• Bogaziçi Üniversitesi

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Sidar Sahin’s Summary

Can assist foreign companies enter Turkish market.

Interested in new ventures in internet area in Turkey and US.

Successful entrepreneur, he founded many technology companies, and did many M&A activities.

Outstanding sales and business development leader with broad experience in all aspects of sales management, business development and start-up formation in internet market.

Sidar has been featured on in many national TV channels, in national newspapers and many other national and regional publications.

Sidar Sahin’s Specialties:

-Startup formation, building teams and execution
-Excellent business development track record
-Sales and marketing & contract negotiation.
-Production and publishing video, mobile and web games.

Sidar Sahin’s Experience

• CEO

  ThirdClick Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2006 — Present (3 years )

• Business Development Manager / Founder

  GameGarden Inc

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — 2008 (7 years )

  Acquired by Dogan Media in 2008, the biggest media group in Turkey
  Created a company from scratch which is currently the leader in its area with more than 3 million monthly unique visitor
  Responsible for strategic planning, marketing/pr and developing game community
  Managed four games' developing projects at GameGarden, and online board games community site project.
  Generated nearly 3 million registered users, 8000 average online users and over 3 million monthly unique hits from scratch.

• Founder

  Izlesene.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)

  Founded Izlesene, Turkish Video Community
  In less than 5 months, Izlesene reached over 300.000.000 pageviews, Alexa 1500
  Acquired by Nokta AS
  The first big sized acqusition in Turkish Internet Market
  The start of Web 2.0 Era In Turkey, other acqusitions followed up

• International Business Consultant & China Country Manager

  Mynet Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2006 — September 2006 (7 months)

  Consultance services for local and global M&A activites
  Directed Acqusitions at Mynet, made many very successful acqusitions on behalf of Mynet
  Responsible for leading special projects, especially foreign investments for Mynet Inc.

• Head of Mobile Games & Services

  Mynet Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2005 — March 2006 (6 months)

  Responsible for extending Mynet products and services to wireless devices
  Responsible of Infotainment services
  Launched wap portal which became a big success: it is currently one of the most visited wap sites in Turkey
  VAS Sales increased over %300
  Started one of the very few web to mobile multiplayer game projects worldwide

• Managing Director / Founder

  funpac mobile

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

  February 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 8 months)

  Company successfully acquired by Mynet Inc
  The first ever acqusition in Turkish mobile market
  Started Funpac mobile from scratch
  Funpac became the first and only Turkish company that exports Mobile Games
  Company games are being sold in more than 30 countries worldwide
  Funpac is the biggest mobile gaming company in Turkey both in export and import

• Project Manager

  doubleCLICK / Interfinal

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

  Project Manager of game team for a german portal games section, leaded to development of various web games.
  Managed three big sized project for doubleCLICK. Reached new revenue channels, new business areas, started importing / exporting software, got a very big software development project for Pearson PLC amongst 8 development companies.

• CC & System

  Turk Nokta Net

  (Internet industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Sidar Sahin’s Education

• Bogaziçi Üniversitesi

  Dropped Out

Additional Information

Sidar Sahin’s Groups:

•    Obama for America
•    Internet Affiliate Marketers Association (IAMA)
•    Web 2.0 Turkey - Webrazzi.com
•    Ruby on Rails Türkiye
•    BBG - browser based gaming

Sidar Sahin’s Contact Settings

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