Fırat Gülgen
Fırat Gülgen founded Calinos Entertainment in Los Angeles in 1999. Until 2001, he sold telenovelas to the Turkic Republics. He then moved the headquarters of Calinos Entertainment to Turkey and started distributing Turkish TV series abroad. Calinos Entertainment became the first company to distribute Turkish content worldwide. In 2003, Fırat Gülgen signed an agreement with Paramount and Universal studios to exclusively distribute their content in Turkey for over 8 years.
Selahattin Sadıkoğlu
Born in Erzurum He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in this province and Diyarbakır.
He studied International Relations at Damascus University and started working as a journalist during his studies.
The Institution he worked for and the duties he undertook are as follows;
B.Sabah-Reporter, Milli Gazete-Intelligence Chief, Sırdaş Publishing House-Shareholder,
Tercüman Newspaper-Middle East Correspondent, Editor, News Director
Güneş Newspaper- Middle East Correspondent, Editorial Coordinator, Saudi Newspaper- Turkish Supplement Officer
Al Bilad Newspaper – Turkish Supplement Officer HBB TV – Head of News Department, Director of Broadcasting
TGRT TV-News Editor-in-Chief
Editor-in-Chief of Yeni Şafak Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief of Bugün Newspaper,
Bugün TV-General Manager Akıllı TV-General Manager Cine-5 Editorial Board Member
Tv 8 – Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief
Calinos Holding – Executive Board Member
He has many awards related to his profession and has produced and moderated more than a hundred TV programs. Holder of a Permanent Press Card.
Zehra Zeynep Dereli
Zeynep Dereli graduated from Üsküdar American High School and received her BA in Economics, Mathematics and Middle Eastern Studies from Princeton University in the USA. She holds a master’s degree in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London.
Earlier in his career, she worked in the M&A department at Dundas & Ünlü Securities in Istanbul. Subsequently, she worked in the Risk Analysis, Research and Compliance teams at Shell Trading and Shipping in London. After returning to Turkey, she worked as a Financial Analyst and Supply Analyst at Shell Turkey. She continued the second part of his career by assuming duties in various organizations that support the development of our country’s economy. The first of these was as the director of the Atlantic Council’s Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum, and for a period she also prepared and hosted the weekly program “Leaders and Decisions” on the political agenda on SKY Türk and CNBC-E channels. Later, she was the General Coordinator of the Turkish Policy Forum, a think tank. In addition to all these, she was the founder and CEO of GLOW Communications and APCO Turkey. She moved to APCO Worldwide London office and joined the international management team.
Hamza Kurtgişi
Hamza Kurtgişi was born in 1977 in Istanbul. He completed his higher education at Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Business Administration. He started his career in the financial affairs department of a company operating in the construction sector. In 2001, he joined Calinos Holding and assumed different roles in the financial affairs and finance departments of the company. In 2008, he became a Certified Public Accountant and currently serves as the Director of Financial and Administrative Affairs.
Ata Ferhatoglu
Ata Ferhatoğlu graduated from DEU Geological Engineering Department in 1988 and started his professional life.
After working as Exploration Geologist at Ranger Exploration and Anglo American Plc between 1988-91, he joined Set Italcementi in 1992, where he held various positions until 2008, including Operations Manager.
Between 2008 and 2010, he managed ready-mixed concrete operations at Boğaziçi Beton as Assistant General Manager.
In 2011, he joined the Calinos Holding family and currently serves as the General Coordinator responsible for Mining-Energy and Agriculture-Livestock operations.
Robert Zara
He graduated from Boğaziçi University, I.İ.B.F. Business Administration program in 1991.
He started his career as a media planner at UNIVERSAL McCANN Istanbul in 1992 and served as media account director for the agency’s prominent international clients such as T.C.C.C., L’Oreal, General Motors, Gillette and Nestle until 1998.
From 1998 to 2000, he was based at UNIVERSAL Mc CANN London headquarters, managing the media operation for General Motors, GoodYear and XBOX clients in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Between 2001-2004, he worked as the deputy general manager of UNIVERSAL McCANN Istanbul and between 2005-2011 as the chief executive officer of the same agency.
Between 2011 and 2018, he was the head of advertising marketing at DOĞAN MEDIA GROUP, and between 2019 and 2021, he assumed the role of head of TV, Radio, Satellite commercial operations at DEMİRÖREN MEDIA GROUP.
As of 2021, he is responsible for media operations management at CALINOS MEDIA.
She speaks Turkish, English and French.
Elif Dagdeviren
Elif Dağdeviren started her career as a film translator for TRT and continued her career as a reporter and columnist for publications such as Aktüel, Hürriyet, Akşam, Esquire, as well as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Turkey and Kelebek newspaper. He worked as a television producer and moderator on channels such as STAR, ATV, SkyTurk, Turkmax.
By establishing netbul.com portal, Turkey’s first internet content provider and search engine, he was one of the pioneers in introducing digital content to the country. Within Netbul, Turkey’s first digital news agency, children’s, women’s and gaming microsites were launched. The country’s first major content company sale, which also made international news.
After selling Netbul, he established a film production company and became the producer of television programs and films such as Beyza’s Women, Cenneteti Beklerken, İftarlık Gazoz and Dondurmam Gaymak, which won awards at major international festivals and made a name for themselves as Turkey’s nominee for the Oscars. In addition to these, as the co-founder of a 4000-seat concert center, he organized nearly 40 international concert organizations.
Suat Pekak
Suat Pekak, who has worked on numerous projects in the Turkish film and TV series industry, is the director of Orbis Filmcilik, a subsidiary of Calinos Holding.
Mr. Pekak has been awarded the Crystal Apple 5 times with his own production company.
In his career, he also worked as the general production manager at ATV channel for 7 years.
Some examples of their works;
Come If He Says Ask
Sen Anlat Karadeniz -64 episodes -2018/2019
Sakarya Firat – 151 episodes -2009/2013
Love for Love – 32 episodes -2015/2016
Kizilelma – 28 episodes – 2014
Day of the Sword -2010
Doludizgin Yıllar- 47 episodes -2008/2010
No One Is Without Fault-2014
The Innocents- 2008
Long Story-2013
Love Red-2012
Özkan Özlü
He was born in 1981 in Konya Ereğli.
He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Ereğli.
In 1999, he entered Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture and graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture in 2004. started his master’s degree.
Between 2002-2004, he worked as a Student Representative at Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture.
Between 2004-2006, he worked as Feed Center Supervisor and Dairy Cattle Herd Supervisor at Koç Ata Sancak Besi ve Tarım Ürünleri AŞ.
Between 2007-2008, he worked at Söktaş AGRİTA Feed Factory and Söktaş Efeler Farm as Feed Factory Production Supervisor and Feed Center and Farm Hygiene Supervisor.
Between 2008-2012, he worked as Senior Manager and Animal Nutrition Specialist at EK-TA Dairy Farm.
Between 2012-2016, he worked as Animal Production Manager at Leben Agriculture and Livestock Enterprises.
Since 2016, he has been working as General Manager at Leben Agriculture and Livestock Enterprises.
Fluent in English, Mr. ÖZLÜ is married and has two children.
Haluk Kulin
Haluk Kulin is a purpose-driven executive with experience in global brand building, start-ups and market change. He specializes in helping to identify, design and deliver transformational opportunities that drive profitable growth.
He started his career at Unilever in 1997. He quickly moved from local brand management to developing the Laundry Innovation Center for the Middle East, Europe, and Turkey. In 2002, OMO moved to global brand management and launched the ‘It’s Good to Get Dirty’ strategy, focusing on creating the most accurate and powerful applications for purpose-driven brands. In more than 30 countries and contributed to profitable revenue growth from $1.5 billion to $3.4 billion.
He left Unilever in 2007 to focus on startups. He led the 24eight strategy, developing wireless sensory materials and data applications for wearables in health and gaming, before founding Personal BlackBox in 2009 to enable people to collect, protect and leverage their own data.
Since 2019, he has been supporting founders, corporate leaders and organizations to maximize their growth and positive impact. His experience includes FMCG, Personal Data, Social and Digital Media, Digitization of Healthcare, Live Events, Design Thinking, Smart Cities and Construction.
