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20+ years of experience in the software and IT industry as a sales executive, manager, CEO, and entrepreneur. Prior to Inventuna, Erhan co-founded KodA and led the company as CEO to the top ten Turkish software companies list*, and to the market leadership in Document Capture, Imaging and Records Management software and services sectors in Turkey**.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erhan-taskin-1627b411/

* Source: ICT500 Top 10 Turkish Software Companies List (2012-2020)

**Source: ICT500 Software- Document and Records Management Sector Vendor List (2012-2020)

ERHAN TASKIN

CEO, Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder

Mr. Kanli has 20+ years of experience in the software and IT industry as an engineer, manager and CEO. Holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from METU. Worked with various hi-tech companies in Silicon Valley, CA such as Agilent, gig.com and Anritsu until 2005. Prior to Inventuna, Mr. Kanlı co-founded CBKSoft and as the CEO of the company, he led her to become one of the best software companies in Turkey. After many successful years, majority of CBKSoft has been acquired by first Aramex International and then by Iron Mountain – the global leader in this market.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/salihkanli

SALIH KANLI

Vice Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder

“Mev is a legend!” – Jon Dean (Activision, EA Sports)

“A fantastic career” – Steve Merrett, (Bethesda)

“I’m proud of Mev’s achievements” – Jon Hare (Sensible Software)

“I both admire and hold Mev as a dear friend.” – Charles Cecil (Revolution Software)

“A true Turkish Gaming Legend” – Ulas Karademir, (VP of Productions, Unity)

Sidar Şahin (CEO of Peak Games) on Mev Dinc | https://youtu.be/1QfPg–zgL0

Mev Dinc is an award winning veteran video games developer and BAFTA member. Mev began to learn games programming back in 1983 in England, and established his reputation very quickly for both programming and game design. Furthermore, he won numerous nominations and awards from the specialist press for his work, in particular, for ‘Enduro Racer’ and ‘Last Ninja 2’.

More awards followed at his Vivid Image Developments Studio, which he co-founded with John Twiddy and Hugh Riley in 1988. ‘Time Machine’ (1990) – the Most Original Game, ‘First Samurai’ (1991) – Arcade Game of the Year, and the hugely successful ‘Street Racer’ on the Super Nintendo console. Amazingly, Intel used Dinc’s Actor Game Engine Technology Demo in its Worldwide promotions of the Pentium 4 processor in 2000.

Considered as the Founding Father of the Turkish video games industry, Dinc returned to his native Turkey to lead and help establish the Turkish Gaming Sector in 2000 after 21 years in the UK. He founded the first professional games development studio ‘Sobee Studios’ at the end of 2000. Mev rapidly set up a very talented local team producing high quality original games.

He went on to produce Turkey’s first and biggest MMO (Massively Multi-player Online) title ‘Istanbul Kiyamet Vakti’. It was first published in 2006 and is still active after 15 years! Soon after, he developed the world’s first 11 vs 11 online soccer game, ‘I Can Football’ (2009). Followed by ‘SuperCan’, Turkey’s first superhero kid which quickly reached millions of users.

Sobee became a 100% Turk Telekom owned company in 2009, which Mev continued to manage until May 2013. Sobee’s acquisition by Turk Telekom is the first sale of a gaming company in Turkey.

I Can Football won the Best Content Award in the 2010 London World Communication Awards. It also won the Technology Award from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).

Mev is also the founder and the first elected president of the world’s first Digital Games Federation.
Life Is A Game, Autobiography

https://mevdinc.com

MEVLUT DINC

Executive Producer, Co-Founder

25+ years of experience in the software and IT industry as a developer, engineer, product manager, CTO, CEO and entrepreneur. BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Bogazici University. Prior to Inventuna, Ersin co-founded KodA reported by ICT500 as one of the top ten software companies in Turkey, and market leader in Document Capture, Imaging and Records Management software and services sectors. Ersin has worked as the Chief Software Architect and Lead Developer in a KodA, and has been studying and experimenting with the blockchain technology with a special focus on NFT, document/records management implementations, and consensus mechanisms since 2017
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ersin-taskin-2996b52/

ERSIN TASKIN

CTO, Co-Founder

With 20+ years of experience in game design and development, Nejati brings with him valuable knowledge and skills in creating quality gameplay mechanics, user interface and experience. He also excels in player retention, player engagement, gameplay progression and monetization. Started his career at the renowned UK games studio Vivid Image Developments in 1991, gaining valuable knowledge and experience with classic games such as ‘Time Machine’, ‘Street Racer’ and award winning ‘First Samurai’.

Nejati joined Turkey’s leading and most influential game development company Sobee Studios as a game designer in 2005. He co-designed world’s first ever 11 vs 11 online soccer game, ‘I Can Football’, which won the Best Content Award in the 2010 London World Communication Awards. Nejati’s important contribution continued with one of Turkey’s most popular games Supercan. With the rise of mobile games, Nejati has been working for various mobile game studios such as Gulyabani Games, Dinc Game Studio, Lootcopter and Any Games before joining Inventuna.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nej-dinc-95737b2/

NEJ DINC

Senior Game Designer

Jamieson is a highly inspired copywriter with bags of experience in different sectors. Having cut his writing teeth in the world of curriculum design and content for education, he later wrote two pedagogy books and edited 3 books including ‘Life’s A Game’ by Mev Dinc and two teen superhero novels, ‘The Adventures of Tom Sharpe by Peter Drinkwater’.

With a background as a certified UK college lecturer, teacher trainer and college manager in England from 1999, Jamieson stepped into the freelance world of content writing in 2012.

As a D&D role player and Dungeon Master and avid reader/viewer of fantasy and sci-fi, Jamieson brings to the table oodles of creativity and imagination. Also, he has been video gaming since the heady days of Spectrum 48k right through to the present time. Video games are pure art to his mind.

With two Master level Diplomas in Business Management and Cambridge DELTA Teaching and a Certificate in Education, Jamieson combines the rationality of a former educator with the innovation of a fantasy fan. He is also certified in 11 areas of Digital Marketing by the leading US Organisation Digital Marketer and has had senior roles as a copywriter in British companies.

Aside from copywriting, Jamieson is releasing a 300-page book of poetry called ‘Blue Soul Fire Alive’ and has commercially released over 20 songs as a singer and lyricist.

Writing is his diehard passion in life!

Jamieson Lee Hill

Head Copywriter

20+ years of experience in the software and IT industry, as a developer, engineer, product manager, CTO and entrepreneur. Holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the Bilkent University. Worked with various hi-tech companies in San Francisco and New York; especially on AI based automated trading systems. Prior to Inventuna, Mr. Battal co-founded CBKSoft and performed as the CTO of the company, designing the architecture of corporate products such as enVision Document and Workflow Management System. Mr. Battal is highly experienced in designing scalable multi user systems, mobile systems and blockchain technologies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdurrahman-battal-155ba81/

ABDURRAHMAN BATTAL

Co-Founder

Mr. Coskun has 20+ years of hands-on experience in the software and IT industry, from engineering to top level management. Holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the Bilkent University. Took part in various startup companies in Silicon Valley, CA and Vancouver, BC; during early 2000s. Co-founded CBKSoft and led the creation of flagship product of the company “enVision Document and Workflow Management System”. Today, enVision is being used by more than 400,000 end users in 20 countries all over the world and is the absolute market leader in Turkey. Mr. Coskun also co-founded Rast Technology, a company developing smart monitoring systems for power plants.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alp-coskun-16326a56/

ALP COSKUN

Co-Founder

20+ years of experience in the software and IT industry as a product engineer, project manager, product manager, and COO. BS degree in Physics from the Bogazici University. Prior to Inventuna, Orhan worked at KodA as COO.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/orhan-baloglu-b39599a2/

ORHAN BALOGLU

COO, Co-Founder