
Damla Karapinar
Location
Zürich
Field of Study
Engineering, Business
Expertise
Sustainability & Fintech
About
Looking for tech co-founder
An engineer with a business mindset who enjoys leveraging entrepreneurial opportunities.
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Open for
cofounder
fulltime
Work Experience
EuroTube
2022-09 -
Technology Transfer Officer
Zürich
fulltime
• Led technology transfer activities, including product definition, technology adoption advocacy, and meeting coordination with potential adopters. • Created business models for technology transfer strategies to support R&D developments and generate revenue. • Initiated and implemented prototype development activities, including the preparation of funding proposals. • Analyzed market trends to maximize potential commercialization revenues. • Identified strategically advantageous and commercially viable spin-off opportunities. • Demonstrated entrepreneurial attitude and strong negotiation skills on research collaboration and technology transfer relationships.
EuroTube
2021-09 - 2022-06
Operations working student
Zürich
parttime
• Acted as business partner to the R&D project managers. • Established and checked project budgets for research projects. • Collaborated with key public and private stakeholders towards commercialization of hyperloop in Europe.
EuroTube
2021-03 - 2021-08
Operations intern
Zürich
internship
• Delivered the research results about technology testing facilities to the Hyperloop Development Program funded by the Dutch government. • Initiated a community to bring global vacuum transport ecosystem stakeholders together. • Represented the Swiss Hyperloop Alliance in the European Hyperloop Week 2021 in Spain.
Deloitte
2018-07 - 2019-01
Business Analytics intern
Istanbul
parttime
• Developed a software tool that facilitates the readability of financials and data visualization. • Created a sales dashboard that unites all sales data and assesses the variances in sales forecasts.
British American Tobacco (BAT)
2018-02 - 2018-05
Finance intern
Istanbul
parttime
• Analyzed variances in projected sales in Turkey and North Africa. • Prepared bi-monthly reports addressing the political, economic, and financial situation of the countries in Turkey and North Africa.
Academic Experience
University of Zurich -
2019.09 - 2022.06
Master of Arts, MA in Business and Economics (Major: Management and Economics, Minor: Quantitative Finance)
Koç University -
2014.09 - 2018.12
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Industrial Engineering
Koç University -
2014.09 - 2018.12
Bachelor of Arts, BA in Economics (double major)
Nanyang Technological University -
2017.01 - 2017.06
Bachelor of Science, BSc in (Exchange semester)