Goker Ozturk

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ABOUT GOKER OZTURK

Professional experience in IT industry sales, business development and alliance management for 24+ years. As part of Cisco Networking Strategic Growth Initiatives team in Cisco Networking Business Unit, I lead select strategic partnerships with focus on Communication Service Providers (CSP) and Global System Integrators (GSI), cross-Business Unit (BU) transformational offers and initiatives.Worked as Senior Global Alliance Manager for Intel alliance at AWS. Responsible from build-market-sell motions with Intel on cloud computing, cloud networking and security, HPC, AI/ML and IoT horizontals. Created and executed first of its kind co-sell motions utilizing MDF and other budgets with diverse sales and technical teams using existing and new programs and resources. Bridged AWS service teams in compute and IoT with Intel technologies creating first of its kind solution offerings and bundles creating incremental value and differentiation for AWS and end customer needs. Worked as Segment Manager for Enterprise and Cloud Networking and Security Segments for SDN/NFV at Intel Corporation in Portland, Oregon, US. Sales enabling, strategic business and product planning, sales & marketing, key account management, internal & external stakeholder management, partner management, business development, ecosystem relationship building are the skills I capitalized this far. Customer orientation, stakeholder management, discipline, ability to cope with ambiguity and pressure, results orientation, strategic and structured approach to business, possibility thinking and problem solving are among my strengths.Specialties: IT sales experience, executive relationship management, key account management, business development, solution development, relationship management, solution sales, government relations, finance & telco verticals experience, ecosystem knowledge, computer hardware, servers, desktop & mobile architectures, virtualization, cloud computing, education technologies, telecoms infrastructure, security, identity protection, PKI, authentication, secure element, mobile payments.Holds Computer Engineering B.S, and MBA degrees from Middle East Technical University, Turkey.