Yigit is the Regional Director of Customer Advisory EMEA Emerging & Asia Pacific. He has over 15 years of domain experience in enterprise-level information management solutions. He has been involved in large-scale projects dealing with structured and unstructured data across the banking, telco and public sectors. Yigit is also a board member for various data management organizations and a regular speaker at data management & data governance events. He holds a degree in Computer technology and Programming from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Aside from being a fan of sci-fi authors such as Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, he is also a musician and an avid model train builder.
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