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UMUTCAN DUMAN

CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF EVREKA

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Co-founder and CEO of EVREKA, Umutcan Duman was born in İzmir, in 1991. He graduated from İzmir Science High School and from Middle East Technical University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering in June 2015. During his education period, he participated in many national and international events. After he worked at İşkolig.com as intern and his ongoing contributions as remote worker, he got more serious about his entrepreneurial adventure that he started during his preparatory school and he founded his first endeavor, Stajup. After failure of it within 8 months, he proceeded to establish EVREKA learning by failure without any breakpoint. Currently, with the vision of designing smart cities, he has maintained his operations for 2 years together with his team.

In his personal life, he become entitled to get TEV Outstanding Achievement Scholarship which is the most prestigious scholarship of Turkey and he was entitled to attend Girişimcilik Vakfı Fellow Programme which selects 40 fellows out of thousands of applicants. Furthermore, he worked for 5 years at Turkey Basketball Federation as referee, and he experienced being instructor and mentor at TUBİTAK Mentor Programme and ESTIEM (European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management).

Currently; he maintains his life as co-founder and CEO of Evreka, runner of Ankara Koşuyor and coffee lover.