Dr. Tanju Çataltepe has received S.B. degree from M.I.T. and Ph.D degree from UCLA, all in electrical engineering. He was at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs between 1990 and 2005, where he worked first on optical networks and synchronization and then on the Internet backbone architectures. Later he was an advisor for the CEO of Turk Telekom. He served as the chairman of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference of 2006. Between 2006 and 2010, he was the CIO for Yildiz Holding, where he led infrastructure and datacenter consolidation projects and SAP deployment. Following, he joined Cisco as the Advanced Services Director in 2010. From 2012 until he co-founded tazi.ai in 2015, he was with Kantar Media Audiences first as the general manager in Turkey, then as the Global IT Director.