Tolga Erdogus

Current

CTO at Heritage Travel Inc.

Past

VP of Software Development at Acadian Asset Management
CTO at JetDirect Aviation
Independent Consultant at Delphi Health Systems

Independent Consultant at Old Mother Hubbard
VP of Engineering at eBizJets/Sentient Jet
VP of Technology at Bank Boston/Fleet Bank
Consultant at Student Universe
Senior Consultant at Monitor Company
CIO at Global Securities

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Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
German High School of Istanbul

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Information Technology and Services

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Tolga Erdogus’s Summary

Successful startup, large corporate, IT strategy, creative thinking, database design and architecture, team-building, interfacing with business functions, entrepreneur, rapid prototyping and agile development, good understanding of finance and financial systems, management consulting and cutting edge technology trends experience...

Tolga Erdogus’s Specialties:

Successful Team Building and management experience of up to 30 technical people.
Ability to effectively communicate with CXOs and board of directors.
CIO/CTO experience with proven success in large organizations as well as startups.
Ability to motivate team members and gain their respect with hands-on software development and architecture capabilities.
Successful patent development experience.

Tolga Erdogus’s Experience

CTO

Heritage Travel Inc.

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

At Gozaic, you can find life-enriching travel experiences, interact with those who share your interests, discover new places rich in history and culture, and build itineraries to visit the places that matter.
VP of Software Development

Acadian Asset Management

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)
CTO

JetDirect Aviation

(Privately Held; Airlines/Aviation industry)

July 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 1 month)

In charge of integrating all of JetDirect's acquisitions and building a unified information technology system and organization across the areas of private jet management, dispatching, maintenance and FBO services. Left the company before the merger between Sentient and JetDirect.
Independent Consultant

Delphi Health Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Helped define a strategy to move a proprietary, patent pending health care software system from VB6 to .NET.
Developed some proof of concept prototypes.
Advised the company on a distributed thin-client strategy, network and software security and internet delivery.
Independent Consultant

Old Mother Hubbard

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Reporting directly to the CFO, played an iterim CIO role for a while and built a flexible and template driven real-time PNL reporting system with customer and product profitability drill-downs.
Helped define an enterprise strategy for the supply chain information gathering system and sales force automation.
VP of Engineering

eBizJets/Sentient Jet

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

October 2000 — July 2004 (3 years 10 months)

Built an IT infrastructure and team of 10 from scratch. Developed a sophisticated patent pending technology to perform automatic supply demand matching in the private jet aviation industry. Was co-author of the patent application (“Method and Apparatus for Arranging Flexible and Cost-Efficient Private Air Travel”).
Was part of the executive team of the company and thus partially responsible for growing the company more than 200 per cent in the last two years. Played an important bridge role between marketing, accounting, operations and sales departments and was very involved in making the company profitable during bad economic times. Took on many leadership roles, IT and business strategy formulations.
Was interviewed by Forbes, Newsweek and Robb Report regarding the significant impact and transformation power of the schedule optimization system and other technologies created at Sentient Jet. Was instrumental in Sentient Jet winning the Best of Best 2004 Award.
VP of Technology

Bank Boston/Fleet Bank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

August 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 3 months)

VP of Technology responsible for architecture and software development of a technology startup for Fleet Boston.
Architected and built web-site technology with myway.com like portal behavior, visto.com like calendaring and time-management features and yodlee.com like account consolidation. Integrated on-line concierge service capability and features into the site. Was the official number one hire and played an important role in the incubation, strategy and business plan definition as well as technology/vendor/standards selection. Was in charge of the entire software development task and project plan. Managed around 10 full-time technical resources from Viant Corporation. Also hired and managed 4 contractors. Reported directly to the CEO. Technologies used were, Java, JSP, Servlets, XML, XSL, Oracle 8.1.6i, Borland JBuilder, Rational Rose, Erwin, Apache, JServ, JRun, JUnit.
Consultant

Student Universe

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Senior Consultant

Monitor Company

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Helped formulate IT/Business strategies for CXO level leadership of large companies around the world.
Acted as an honest broker and strategy consultant for Turkey's biggest white goods manufacturer for six months.
Designed and built a competitive battlefield and sales distribution database for the expansion strategy of world's biggest beer company into the Polish market.
Lead an IT strategy project for one of South Africa's largest chemical/oil plants.
Performed an IT audit and created a strategy report for the American Hospital of Istanbul.
Was involved in the presales activity for an Internet Banking project in Taiwan.
CIO

Global Securities

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Banking industry)

September 1995 — May 1998 (2 years 9 months)

Involved in restructuring the department and growing it from 5 to 25 people in order to accommodate the fast growing pace of Global Securities. Established 20 new branches and developed a WAN network to enable real-time trading. Was a member of the Executive Committee and participated in important decision making processes for the future of the company. Developed a disaster recovery strategy. Architected a real-time trading program, including equities, fixed income and portfolio management, with cutting-edge technologies such as asynchronous messaging, order routing, three-tier computing and real-time data-feeds. This project had international visibility and was featured in a number of domestic publications. As a result, Global was selected by Oracle as their 8.0 beta test site. Obtained many renowned distributorships and VARs for Global such as DEC, Sun, Oracle, Forte, Business Objects and Tibco.

Tolga Erdogus’s Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BS , Computer Science and German Literature , 1990 — 1993
German High School of Istanbul

Turkish High School Diploma and German Abitur ,