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Mehmet Özgür Depren

Mehmet Özgür Depren

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture
Utrecht

Summary

Seasoned Technical Leader and Certified Coach with over 20 years of experience in IT, SaaS, and enterprise solutions. Brings a wealth of expertise to the table, excelling in presales leadership, consultative selling, and driving revenue growth throughout career. Strong background in team management allows for effective leadership and inspiration towards success. Key strengths include building strategic customer relationships, driving expansion, adoption, and retention. Consistently drives customer success and fosters long-term partnerships by aligning technology with business needs.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Benelux, EMEA

Elastic
05.2024 - Current
  • Managing Solution Architects in the Benelux region in EMEA
  • Responsible for the key strategic customers including ING, Swift, Booking, KPN, MOD, Dutch National Police as well as mid market
  • Responsible for $60M+ ARR business
  • Responsible for presales execution and driving full stack observability, security (SIEM, endpoint, cloud) and search AI, RAG and GenAI solutions running on hybrid, cloud or serverless platforms
  • Lead a team of Solution Architects, improving adoption, customer satisfaction and retention through the implementation of best-in-class Customer Success processes and KPIs, driving migration to cloud program, competitive replacement initiatives

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Emerging Markets, EMEA

Elastic
05.2023 - 04.2024
  • Managing Solution Architects in the Emerging Markets region consisting of Middle East and Africa, Israel, Turkey and Eastern Europe
  • I play a key role in setting up the new organization, hiring, training and growing the team, improving existing processes and implementing new processes to facilitate growth
  • I am responsible for presales execution driving full stack observability, security (SIEM, endpoint, cloud) and search AI, RAG and GenAI solutions running on hybrid or multi-cloud platforms
  • Lead a team of Solution Architects, improving adoption, customer satisfaction and retention through the implementation of best-in-class Customer Success processes and KPIs achieving high retention and expansion rates in cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Renewals, and Professional Services to increase revenue

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, SMB, EMEA

Elastic
05.2022 - 04.2023
  • Managing Solution Architects in the Small and Medium (SMB) organization across EMEA
  • I play a key role in setting up the new organization, improving existing processes and implementing new processes to facilitate growth
  • Responsible for $40-45M ARR business volume
  • Building or enhancing product led growth initiatives and process improvements to drive velocity business and ARR expansion

Technical Executive

International Business Machines (IBM)
01.2016 - 04.2022
  • Managing Cloud Architects, Technical Sales Specialists and Developer Advocates in Cloud and Cognitive Software Business Unit in Turkey, a team of 20 people, in close coordination with Sales and IBM Partner Ecosystem teams
  • Responsible for ensuring the successful execution of the technical strategy in Turkey
  • Responsible for covering AIOPs, Middleware, Cloud Integration & API Management, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Data and AI solutions, IBM Cloud, IoT, Blockchain and IBM Security software portfolio

Technical Sales Manager

International Business Machines (IBM)
02.2015 - 12.2015
  • Managing a team of technical sales professionals in IBM Middleware, a team of 10 people
  • IBM Middleware is a newly formed business unit including solutions from the brands previously known as Tivoli, Websphere and Rational products
  • Responsible for ensuring the successful execution of the technical strategy and technical coverage in alignment with Business Partners in Turkey

Technical Leader

International Business Machines (IBM)
06.2014 - 01.2015
  • Working as a Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure (C&SI) Technical Leader and Solution Architect in IBM Software
  • I was responsible for managing C&SI Technical Sales team in Turkey as C&SI Technical Leader and C&SI Solution Architect responsible for key accounts in Turkey
  • Member of Technical Leadership Council for SaaS Solution Design and Service Assurance working with the Worldwide team to drive strategy for IBM

Technical Sales

International Business Machines (IBM)
09.2009 - 05.2014
  • Working as a Tivoli Technical Sales in IBM Software
  • Responsible through the sales cycle starting from pre-sales, architecting the solution and implementation when needed
  • Responsible for Tivoli solutions covering service management (IBM Control Desk), cloud and data center automation (IBM Cloud Orchestrator, Openstack), enterprise asset management (Maximo), monitoring and data protection (TSM), data resiliency and storage management (SVC, TPC) software

Senior Architect

Sun Microsystems
05.2008 - 08.2009
  • Working as Delivery Architect and Project Manager in the Professional Services Department responsible for Profit and Loss (PNL) and utilization for the assigned projects
  • Delivered projects in IT Service Management, Data Protection and Resiliency and Data Center Consolidation domains
  • Driving strategy to work with Alliance partners and providing end to end solutions to our customers
  • Successful projects delivered with Alliance partners including Symantec Veritas, Team Quest, More, Halcyon and IBM

Technical Sales

Computer Associates (CA)
08.2005 - 04.2008
  • Working as a regional Technical Sales Specialist in CEEMEA - Central Eastern Europe Middle East Africa
  • Responsible for Storage and Threat Management products in my first 2 years and then moved into Business Service Optimization (BSO) Business Unit focusing on ITSM including incident and problem management, change and configuration management and CMDB
  • Worked on IT Service Management and ITIL-based Service Management projects and consultancy

Solution Architect

Information and Communication Security Lab. at Bogazici University
06.2003 - 07.2004
  • Worked as a Solution Architect on confidential electronic warfare projects for Turkish General Command
  • Responsible for systems design and development for the required electronics intelligent system
  • I provided consultancy to Turkish General Command to write the technical specification doc

Software Engineer

Tubitak Bilten
01.2003 - 06.2003
  • Worked as a software engineer on a highly confidential project for Turkish Naval Forces
  • Responsible for software modeling of the system using UML, development and implementation of image processing algorithms for satellite images

Education

Master of Science - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Boğaziçi University
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2001 - 09.2004

Bachelor of Science - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey
04.2001 - 06.2001

High School Diploma -

Kabataş Erkek Lisesi
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2001 - 06.1996

Skills

  • Strategic planning
  • Talent development
  • Cross-functional team coordination
  • Consultative selling
  • Enterprise Design Thinking
  • MVP / Agile Delivery
  • Designing Well-Architected Cloud Solutions
  • FinOps
  • Cloud Workload Assessments and Migration Strategies
  • Cloud Transformation
  • AIOps
  • DevOps and CI/CD

Certification

Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader, 2022

Key Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in people management, successfully leading regional remote teams with consistently high employee engagement scores
  • Expertise in hiring, onboarding, training and developing technical professionals
  • Proficient in data-driven management, utilizing tools such as Salesforce, Clari and Vivun to foster a culture of action and excellence
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to collaborate across functions and engage with C-level executives
  • 15+ years of Solution Sales and Consultative Selling experience, consistently achieving and exceeding sales quotas
  • Expertise in aligning technical solutions with business, driving results through prioritization of business demands to deliver measurable value and sustainable outcomes
  • Experienced in executing sales strategies using the MEDDPICC framework, ensuring alignment of key metrics to drive successful, data-driven sales outcomes
  • Proven expertise in project and program management (6-18 months, >$1M) from inception to completion. Focused on delivering customer-centric strategies that drive adoption, success and measurable outcomes
  • Extensive experience in driving partner management programs, including GSI, SI and ISVs. Skilled in aligning strategic objectives with partner ecosystems, enhancing technical engagement, partner onboarding and delivering measurable outcomes
  • Act as a liaison between customers, engineering teams, and support, ensuring alignment and driving customer satisfaction
  • Proven expertise in customer success management, leading success planning and driving product adoption, customer loyalty and retention. Identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities to maximize customer value and long-term satisfaction
  • Strong ability to drive pipeline generation, increase brand awareness, and measure success in collaboration with Marketing and SDRs

Timeline

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Benelux, EMEA

Elastic
05.2024 - Current

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Emerging Markets, EMEA

Elastic
05.2023 - 04.2024

Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, SMB, EMEA

Elastic
05.2022 - 04.2023

Technical Executive

International Business Machines (IBM)
01.2016 - 04.2022

Technical Sales Manager

International Business Machines (IBM)
02.2015 - 12.2015

Technical Leader

International Business Machines (IBM)
06.2014 - 01.2015

Technical Sales

International Business Machines (IBM)
09.2009 - 05.2014

Senior Architect

Sun Microsystems
05.2008 - 08.2009

Technical Sales

Computer Associates (CA)
08.2005 - 04.2008

Solution Architect

Information and Communication Security Lab. at Bogazici University
06.2003 - 07.2004

Software Engineer

Tubitak Bilten
01.2003 - 06.2003

Master of Science - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Boğaziçi University
04.2001 - 09.2004

Bachelor of Science - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Middle East Technical University
04.2001 - 06.2001

High School Diploma -

Kabataş Erkek Lisesi
04.2001 - 06.1996
Mehmet Özgür DeprenSenior Manager, Solution Architecture