Mert Özgür is a Principal Consultant in SAS Institute Turkey, Ukraine and Central Asia Professional Services and Delivery. He is in consulting business over a decade within reputable global companies in management, technology strategy and analytics field.

He holds BSc. from Yildiz Technical University, MSc. from Istanbul Technical University and Meng. degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York with Fulbright Scholarship by U.S. Department of States.

He led and engaged as subject matter expert to many large-scale cross-sector digital transformation projects within Turkey and region countries. He participated in delivery activities of notable smart city, logistic, mobilization projects while he focuses on emerging technologies such as data and artificial intelligence.

Mert also contributes to society by holding executive board member title in Informatics Foundation of Turkey (TBV) to drive Turkey into digital society with various projects. He is also co-founder of Baslangic Noktasi (social platform) and frequently mentoring start-ups in various scales in terms of social entrepreneurship.