From digitalizing the Wall Street trading floor to helping companies like Amazon and eBay, Murat Sönmez has been a pioneer his entire career.
MINDED podcast EP 10 - Murat Sonmez - World Economic Forum
Oct 5, 2018
43:59
In 2014, he joined the World Economic Forum as a member of the Managing Board. Murat is currently the Head of the Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution at the Presidio in San Francisco, California.
In this episode, we discuss Artificial Intelligence, Universal Basic Income and some of the work the World Economic Forum is spearheading alongside governments and the private sector
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Murat Sönmez started his professional career in 1989 as a silicon valley based software engineer focusing on automating the leading semiconductor chip manufacturing factories globally. In 1994 he joined Teknekron Software Systems in Palo Alto, a company that digitized the Wall Street using by creating an integrated real-time trader workstation based on the early internet protocols (IP). Strengthened with the intellectual capacity of Stanford engineering graduate students, the company rapidly captured more than 55% of the global trading floor market and was the first to implement IP in a mission critical setting. In 1997, Murat was among the founding team of TIBCO Software, a real-time predictive data analytics software company based in Palo Alto where he was responsible for TIBCO’s customer and partner facing global field operations which by 2014 had crossed the billion dollar revenue mark with operations across 32 countries with a team of 1,700 employees looking after 4,000 customers. He was also a director and board member of TIBCO Software Federal Inc., servicing the US Federal Government.