Sidar Sahin

Current

Online Businesses at Dogan Media Group

Past

User Acquisition at ThirdClick Inc
Business Development Manager / Founder at GameGarden Inc
Founder at Izlesene.com

International Business Development Director, Shanghai, China at Mynet Inc
Head of Mobile Games & Services at Mynet Inc
Managing Director / Founder at funpac mobile
Project Manager at interfinal / doubleCLICK
Editor at Star Newspapers & TV
CC & System at Turk Nokta Net

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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

Online Businesses

Dogan Media Group

(Public Company; DYHOL; Media Production industry)

2008 — Present (2 years )
User Acquisition

ThirdClick Inc

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )

Helped web companies, mostly gaming companies gain more users, while maintaining ARPU as high as possible – with maximum profit. Companies worked with but not limited: Bigpoint, Worldwinner, Travian...
Managed partnerships successfully with many US and EU affiliate networks, including Azoogleads, Hydramedia, Affiliate.com – generated more than $5 million turnover along the process
Supported product department in product development and advertising technology
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

(Internet industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

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 Development Director, Shanghai, China

Mynet Inc

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year )

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; Internet industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

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

(Wireless industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

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

interfinal / doubleCLICK

(Internet industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years )

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.
Editor

Star Newspapers & TV

(Internet industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Worked as an editor fully responsible for IT & Internet section of Star Newspaper (a popular daily newspaper of the time)
Created a weekly magazine, free with Star Newspaper, focused only on Internet & Gaming
CC & System

Turk Nokta Net

(Internet industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )