Pinar Ormeci

About Pinar Ormeci

My tech journey was inevitable; both of my parents were high school teachers, my mom taught Math and my dad Physics. After grad school in the US with a masters in electrical engineering, I intended to build my career on the R&D side. As luck would have it though, after about a year at Qualcomm R&D, I\'ve shifted over to the business side and been loving it since! Innate curiosity, solving complex problems and building great teams drive me each day. I’ve spent the past 20+ years on an exciting journey, culminating with leading first Timus Networks and now Lexful as their CEO. At Qualcomm, where I made the switch from R&D to Corporate, I learned that big decisions can be made in life if you trust yourself. With that, I moved across companies, coasts, and continents, always in roles where I was in a position to drive significant revenue growth across geographies, leading diverse teams across cultures. I\'m a passionate and an authentic leader. What I learned after 20+ years of working is that humans crave genuine interactions - including in business. Traveling worldwide gave me a hands-on experience that human condition is the same wherever you’re in the world and keeping it real at work (and in life) is a currency that goes a long way worldwide. I have been a part of several successful company exits. Notably, I owned a $136M P&L at Transaction Network Services (NYSE: TNS) through its acquisition by Siris Capital. At Lookout (unicorn cybersecurity startup), I was the Global VP of World-Wide partner business for the endpoint security division when the division sold to F-Secure.Having worked at both large enterprises like Qualcomm and Ericsson, and high growth startups, I have a keen eye for putting operational processes, KPIs, and best practices in place while keeping agile, flexible, and hungry. I’m a natural activator with operational rigor, I turn thoughts into action, and galvanize teams behind a common purpose.

Experience

1. Advisory Board Member

   Iverify

   Aug 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Boğaziçi University

  BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• IESE Business School

  Ericsson Executive Program - Entrepreneurship and Operational Excellence

• D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University

  Ericsson Executive Program - Leadership and Innovation

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Wharton Executive Education

  Persuasive Leadership and Influence

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Software Engineering
• Market Research
• Strategic Partnerships
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Voip
• Ip
• Business Development
• Cellular Communications
• Product Planning
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Wireless
• Partner Management
• Product Marketing
• Solution Selling
• Start-Ups
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• 4g
• Mobile Devices
• Product Management
• Telecommunications
• New Business Development
• Lte
• Mobile Applications
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• M2m
• System Architecture
• Wireless Technologies
• Mobile Technology
• Mobile Communications
• Mobile Internet
• Software Development