Ozan Sönmez has been appointed managing director of T-Jump Startup Hub, the US-based incubator of Middle East Technical University’s tech transfer office ODTÜ Teknokent.
Sönmez, who will move to his new office in San Francisco in November, previously held various positions at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, beginning in 2014 as New Ventures Startup Accelerator lead.
He then also led the Hikma Startup Accelerator from February 2015 and from October 2015 headed the 9/10ths Startup Accelerator as programme manager.
T-Jump’s aim is to identify the most promising startups from Turkey and help accelerate their growth in the Silicon Valley ecosystem.
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