Emre Sokullu

Current

• Board at United Turks of San Francisco
• Evangelist at Hakia
• Founder & CEO at GROU.PS

Past

• Writer & Analyst at Read/WriteWeb
• Intern at Wordnet Project, Princeton University
• Founder & Project Manager at Turkix

Education

• Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
• Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
• Lycee de Galatasaray

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• SimpleKDE a usability project

Emre Sokullu’s Summary

Emre is currently heading GROU.PS, the seed stage online social groupware startup with offices in Istanbul, Turkey and San Francisco, CA. GROU.PS is expected to reach the beta status in the first half of 2007 and make public announcements. Prior to founding GROU.PS, he was heading Turkix, which started as a hobby, but quickly became a well-known open source phenomenon in Turkey. Turkix produced a Windows-like Linux distribution for the Turkic desktop OS market. Turkix was sold bundled with Turkey's leading laptop producer Datron's mainstream models. He also served in thin client transformation of Tupras, one of Europe's biggest energy companies. Emre led the local efforts of Apache Software Foundation in Turkey and participated many international open source projects like KDE, Mandriva, Red Hat, RPM.

He is currently a writer/analyst at ReadWriteWeb, his focus areas are entrepreneurship, web 2.0, operating systems, webtops. He is also a technology evangelist at semantic search engine company, Hakia.

Emre can be found blogging at http://www.emresokullu.com

Additional Information

Emre Sokullu’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• SimpleKDE a usability project

Emre Sokullu’s Interests:

entrepreneurship, web 2.0, operating systems (file systems, graphical user interfaces, usability, human-machine interaction), open source, micro/embedded devices and artificial intelligence (knowledge representation, machine translation, pattern recognition, neural networks)

Emre Sokullu’s Groups:

Galatasaray Liseliler Dernegi
Istanbul New Economy Group
Turkish American Business Connection

•    ----- The Startups & Societal Ventures Network ----- An Innovation Catalyst
•    Venture Capital and Private Equity in Turkey

Emre Sokullu’s Honors:

1999 - Selected to represent Turkey in model UN meeting in Harvard University (HMUN)

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