Altan Atabarut

Altan Atabarut

Innovation Business Development Manager
Turkey
English
Full-time Hybrid

About Me

I’m interested in senior roles at the intersection of AI, digital transformation, presales and solution consulting, ideally at Director or Head level. I bring 15+ years of experience across enterprise technology, analyti…

Experience

Business Analysis Head

Basefy · Esenler , Istanbul , Turkey
Jun 2025 - Present · 1 year 4 months

<p>- Lead corporate AI, analytics and automation pilots from client needs through solution development and technical delivery, connecting innovation priorities with business value. </p>

Solution Consultant

Akinon · Dubai , Dubai , United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Jun 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 years

<p>- Led enterprise transformation advisory, aligning C-suite executives, solution teams and implementation partners. </p><p>- Shaped commerce modernization for Lulu Hypermarkets across seven countries, including AI search, and B2B commerce for African Eastern. </p><p>- Applied startup-building and mentoring experience to deliver rapid MVP-based POCs. Established delivery methods, technical roadmaps and team enablement practices. </p>

Innovation Lead

SAS Institute Inc. · Beşiktaş , Istanbul , Turkey
Oct 2019 - Jun 2023 · 3 years 8 months

<p>- Led AI, analytics and modernization across 7+ countries. Built a 12-person regional team with hiring, coaching and performance responsibilities. </p><p>- Facilitated 20+ C-suite transformation workshops. Accelerated POC setup with reusable SAS environments and synthetic data when customer data could not be transferred. </p><p>- Led Koç Holding procurement integrity analytics (USD 1M+ TCV), with USD 1M+ annual fraud prevention impact. SAS-based ML/AI was deployed at Ford Otosan and Tüpraş. </p><p>- Developed Nelt Logistics AI Center of Excellence (EUR 1.1M TCV), including its roadmap, governance and capability building. </p><p>- Directed Boyner HOPI personalization, Turkcell cloud analytics and Migros retail analytics.</p><p> - Combined advisory and delivery with a USD 2.1M annual quota. Closed USD 8.5M+ TCV and </p><p>influenced USD 21M+ pipeline across the SAS tenure.</p><p> - Received the SAS CEO Award of Excellence in 2021 and 2022. </p>

Founding Engineer

Altdata · Beyoğlu , Istanbul , Turkey
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019 · 4 years

<p>- Built an analytics consultancy serving 40+ clients. Managed delivery and client capability building, including Doğa Sigorta insurance and Ulusal Faktöring factoring analytics. </p><p>- Delivered an IDC-awarded cheque-factoring decisioning system, including governance, validation and production monitoring. </p>

Business Development Manager

experian decision analytics · Beşiktaş , Istanbul , Turkey
Apr 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 year 5 months

<p>- Led bank decisioning modernization and psychometrics-based credit evaluation, combining solution design with client adoption. </p>

Skills

Business Consultancy Analytics Sales Product Innovation Machine Learning
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