Entrepreneurs Roundtable U.S. events are held in Philadelphia and NYC. 

ER NY Organizer

Murat Aktihanoglu

Founder and Managing Director at ER Accelerator

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Most recently he founded, obtained funding for and sold Centrl, a location-based social network in New York City.

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He is the co-author of the book “Building Location-Aware Applications”, published by Manning Publications: http://manning.com/ferraro

He is a mentor for World Bank’s InfoDev Program http://www.infodev.org
He is a partner for US State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program http://www.state.gov/e/eeb/cba/entrepreneurship/gep 
He is an advisor for The Startup Foundation http://startupfdn.org
He is an advisor for MIT Enterprise Forum New York http://www.mitef-nyc.org
He is also the co-founder of Turkish Founders Club: http://turkishfoundersclub.com
He is a Venture Partner at 212 Ventures: http://212ventures.com
He is a board member at Turkish American Business Forum: http://forum.org
He is an advisor at StandardStart: http://www.standardstart.com/
He is an advisor at Girls In Tech: http://girlsintechnyc.com
He is an advisor at Turkish Women’s International Network: http://www.turkishwin.com/
He is also the co-author of the book “Building Location-Aware Applications”, published by Manning Publications: http://manning.com/ferraro

Murat holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and a BS in Electrics and Electronics from Bilkent University. He has served as a consultant to many established companies (AT&T, Sony, Logitech, Panasonic) as well as startups (Improv, Sonicbox, Atair, Plaxo, Manyone, Coollris) at the founding level to establish their engineering infrastructures and software development methodologies, and he has managed engineering teams at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View and Sony Corporation in Tokyo, Japan: http://holoscape.com

He is a frequent speaker at technology and entrepreneurship conferences and panels, such as Mobile Marketing Association Forum, Monaco Media Forum, Ultra Light Startups, Siggraph, New York Entrepreneur Week, etc.

You can follow Murat  at @muratny