Executive Team
Alper Turgut, President & CEO
Alper is a technology entrepreneur and business development executive. In his most recent venture Aligo Inc., he co-founded the company, raised over $24 Million from Silicon Valley venture funds and strategic partners including Motorola as a strategic investor.
His venture was most recently featured in Newsweek Special Edition, and received numerous prestigious awards such as Red Herring Magazine's "Most Likely to Succeed" Award, "Wireless Ventures Awards" (two years in a row), Java Developers Journal "Blue Ribbon" and "Best Product" Awards.
Alper led customer acquisition efforts focusing on multi-million strategic accounts and OEM deals. He closed flagship software licensing deals with Sun Microsystems, Motorola and Nextel. Alper pioneered international expansions and opened up offices in Japan closing major distribution deals with NTI (joint venture between NTT and Itochu), Kanematsu Communications, Fuji Electric, and TechMatrix corporation. Previously, Alper was a strategic management consultant with McKinsey and Company in New York focusing on e-business software strategy and financial services working with Fortune 500 companies. Alper received his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management concentrating on strategic management and finance. He holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from Northeastern University and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey.
Jeff Capone, PhD, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Jeff Capone has devoted his career to researching wireless and wireline networks and applications. As Verkata's CTO, Jeff leads the technology development and is the principal architect of Verkata's innovative product line. Jeff has architected and built numerous software products that are deployed by Global 2000 companies worldwide processing millions of business transactions. Prior to leading Verkata's engineering team, he was the co-founder and CTO of Aligo, where he architected and built award winning software products M-1 Server and Omni Mobile Application Platform. His products won numerous awards including Java Developer Journal Excellence Award, Network World Best Middleware Award.
Previously, Jeff was an assistant professor at Arizona State University and director of the Network Engineering and Wireless Telecom Lab. Jeff's distinctions include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (awarded in part by the Next-generation Internet project) and numerous IEEE Journal and conference publications. Jeff is the officer of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications; ACM/IEEE Mobile Communication Conference and IEEE Global Communication Committees. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and BS from University of Vermont.
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