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A nation of women

02/02/2012

"Anadolu" (Anatolia) may very well be the "land of mothers," but as Turkey finds its place as a global leader, it needs to become a nation of women. According to the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap report released this week, it has a long way to go. Read more.

Raising girl power on Twitter

01/24/2012

On Tuesday, January 31 at 2PM EST and 9PM IST, we'll host a Twitter chat about empowering young girls with the hashtag #gendergap. Read more.

Social Entrepreneurship on the Rise in Turkey

01/17/2012

Social entrepreneurship is on the rise worldwide, especially Turkey. Ashoka Türkiye's Zeynep Meydanoglu and Matthias Scheffelmeier share insights about what's going on in Anatolia in this blog post.

301,927 has been raised to-date through Van Earthquake Relief Fund

01/10/2012

As long as individuals, corporations and foundations show interest in supporting the longer term recovery and reconstruction process in Van, Turkish Philanthropy Funds will keep the Van Earthquake Relief Fund open for contributions. Read more.

Aydın Koç

Aydin Koc currently consults on business strategy matters to small companies and non-profits and is an angel investor with the Keiretsu Forum. In the 2001-2007 timeframe, he was the CFO of ChildCare Careers, a very successful temporary staffing agency that was later bought by two private equity firms.

In the 1987-2001 timeframe, Aydin served in senior executive capacities in a number of semiconductor firms in Silicon Valley. He is a past President and CEO of BitBlitz Communications of Fremont, CA., a venture-funded semiconductor start-up. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of ZiLOG's Home Entertainment Group and the President of the Optical Storage Group at Oak Technology. Aydin also spent about a decade in increasingly responsible management positions at LSI Logic Corp.

During the 1981-1987 period, he worked as an international management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and Booz, Allen & Hamilton, advising Fortune 1000 companies worldwide

Aydin is a valedictorian of Tarsus American College in Turkey, has received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics Engineering with high honors from Middle East Technical University in 1972 and 1973 and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1981. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is active in the Turkish-American community for the last 30 years.