Our Team

EVREN AY

CEO & Founder

Evren has been a veteran of the translation industry for over 20 years.

OYTUN TEZ

CTO & Co-Founder

Translation studies scholar with a thesis on machine translation -- overall technologist and obsessed with smart, seamless translation flows

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PAM SELDON

Project Manager

Pam is a wizard of looking at large datasets and deriving meaningful actions from them. As a community/project manager and client liaison at MotaWord, Pam ensures timely creation and delivery of projects and all vendor/client related matters.

KAAN DEMIREL

Senior Software Engineer

Kaan is an aspiring software engineer, responsible for translating ideas into ones and zeros.

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ALI CAGATAY UCAR

Senior Software Engineer

Cagatay is an enthusiastic software developer who thinks the developers are the wizards of today's modern world.

RIDVAN TANIK

Senior Software Engineer

Ridvan is a strong engineering professional focused on agile software engineering.He is bringing his expertise in critical financial systems and real-time processes.

KEREM ONEN

Head of Global Sales

Kerem has previously owned and operated a translation agency in Paris and is the person behind MotaWord’s success in France.

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EKIN ERGOK

Creative Director

Ekin Ergok is a New York-based Creative Director and Multimedia Artist.

ECEM TUNCER

Digital Marketing Director

Ecem is a digital marketing director with two years of experience in translation industry. Her mathematical engineering background has provided her extensive ability to analyze data.

ELIF AY

Business Development

Elif is a seasoned sales person having worked at promoting international trade shows globally and serving many marquis clients.

CEYDA KALKANCI

Community Manager

Ceyda is one of our Community Managers. Thanks to her organizing skills, she makes sure the projects are delivered seamlessly and in time.

GIRK CAKMAK

BD Director - Healthcare

Girk is in the business of improving patient experience through technology and joined MotaWord to help healthcare providers have access to accurate translation service on demand.

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EDA NAZ

Community Manager

Eda is drawn to perfection and she works with precision.

HAL YIGIT

Community Manager

Hal is a polyglot philologist, a tech enthusiast and a problem-solver above all else.

HAZAR SALİS

Sales Operations Specialist

Hazar is an engineer. Combined engineering with his passion for translation and sales. He currently has an extensive network with leading people in the industry.

SINAN YALCIN

Sales Operations Specialist

Having worked as linguist, DTPer, project manager and account executive, Sinan knows what a day looks like for each habitant of translation industry.

KUBRA CAMIR

Account Executive

Having a background in translation, interpreting, localization and tourism industries, Kübra is a passionate language enthusiast with a special interest in Asian languages.

ERDEM COLAK

Sales Development Representative

Erdem is a translation specialist. Speaking German, English and Turkish. He thrives to build himself up in sales and spread the voice of MotaWord.

OGUZHAN SOLEN

Sales Development Representative

Oğuz has combined his degree of translation with foreign trade education. With his passion for marketing and his sales strategy, he is in charge of qualifying leads at the initial stages in the sales funnel.

RECEP KITAY

Sales Development Representative

Recep is a translator. He has worked for governments as an officer and translator. Accumulating all the experience, he knows the language industry thoroughly.

TAYLAN BASARAN

Community Manager

An avid reader of texts both technical and literary, Taylan loves applying his knowledge and experience as a translator to solve interlingual and cross-cultural problems.

FERIT DOGAN

Community Manager

Ferit is obsessed with Romance languages. Detail-oriented and loves to work with compassion.

YIGIT DOGANAY

Sales Development Representative

As a sales person, Yiğit puts values before revenue. He always looks for something that is beyond the material and he is driven by the passion for the things that he truly believes in.

OUR NOTABLE LINGUISTS

OLIA COTEY

Russian Translator

Olia is a US-based Russian translator and she is also the first winner of the MotaWord social media prize.

MARIA GRACIA ZAVARSE

Spanish Translator

Experienced in all tasks behind the linguist desk: translation, subtitling, proofreading, copywriting, DTP-ing. Maga is a 100 project certificate holder.