Piruze Sabuncu

Partner

2020 - Current

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

2020

Kodluyoruz is an award-winning, first tech-focused youth workforce development organization in Turkey to create pathways to social and economic opportunity for driven but unemployed/underemployed youth. It is the Global Winner of the Ashoka & HSBC Future Skills Challenge in 2020, and was selected among top three most promising social startups in Europe by PwC Social Impact Lab.

Member of the ADB's Advisory Group on Digital Technology for Development

2019

Venture Partner * Part time

2020 - 2020

Focused on fintech startups serving the needs of the next billion digital consumers and businesses in global emerging markets.

Head of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong

2015 - 2020

Engagement Manager

2013 - 2015

* Created a set of outside in digital analytics tools for companies in retail, banking, travel and media to asses digital improvement opportunities and come up with a set of actions * Helped a major media conglomerate in Turkey recraft its digital strategy * Created a new online video service concept and started media and infrastructure negotiations in South East Asia for a major telecom company * Ran investment analysis for emerging market opportunities in the education, healthcare and mobile payment spaces for a large telecom company in South East Asia and India. Looked into acquisition targets. Helped create the investment portfolio strategy and run the due diligence effort / negotiations * Launched new talent sourcing processes and employee value proposition for a Japanese social gaming company in SF * Ran a projection model and had specific aspiration conversations with different offices and practices on women recruiting and representation

Associate

2011 - 2013

* Modeled and analyzed a global survey to understand changing consumer behavior across digital experiences, which was presented in Technonomy 2011 conference and published in McKinsey Quarterly * Changed an enterprise software company's go to market strategy, sales org * Wrote a comprehensive proposal on behalf of a large hospital chain to receive Healthcare Innovation Challenge fund by reducing healthcare costs while improving healthcare quality * Launched new processes and metrics system for a national physician’s network to improve their revenue cycle management * Helped an impact investing organization form its India strategy and investment thesis

Co-founder

2010 - 2011

* Created an IOS app that uses social networks and game dynamics to drive healthier, happier lives through creating, tracking and sharing goals * Recruited and managed a team of engineer and designers in SF, NY and Turkey

Student

2008 - 2011

Summer Consultant

2009 - 2009

Corporate Strategy Associate

2009 - 2009

Focused on mobile money and payments